9/28/2024 11:00:00 AM Georgia Childcare Centers Face Insurance Crisis By Taylor Duma An excellent investigative article from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation examines a problem that my clients have been talking about...
8/19/2024 9:30:29 AM Lack of Mental Health Care Plagues Foster Care System By Taylor Duma A story from New Hampshire highlights one of the biggest issues for the foster care system, namely, providing adequate mental health...
8/7/2024 10:30:44 AM Extended Family Model of Foster Care Shows Benefits By Taylor Duma A report from Australia looks at the benefits of the Mockingbird model of foster care, first pioneered in the U.S. The model creates a...
7/31/2024 9:30:28 AM Minnesota Adds More Requirements for Foster Care By Taylor Duma Minnesota recently passed legislation designed to keep more children out of foster care. Rather than the prior “reasonable efforts” to...
7/27/2024 10:50:50 AM Interventions for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Lack Evidentiary Basis By Taylor Duma A recent review of various studies looking at programs for youth aging out of foster care found no evidence supporting any of the...
6/3/2024 9:30:16 AM The Main Reason We Don't Have Enough Foster Families By Taylor Duma As we close out National Foster Care Month, I want to look at two news articles that came out the same day in April. In the first, the...
5/8/2024 9:11:38 AM How to Help Foster Families By Taylor Duma May is National Foster Care Month, and National Foster Care Day is this week. Not many people have the calling to become a foster...
5/4/2024 9:14:14 AM Texas Lowers Its Foster Care Population By Taylor Duma As my colleague, Tom Rawlings, noted in his recent Substack article, federal Judge Janis Jack is still struggling with the laws of supply...
5/1/2024 9:11:24 AM Georgia’s Foster Children Don't Have Access to Consistent Mental Health Care By Taylor Duma Mental health care is the most crucial need for most children who have experienced trauma. Unfortunately, Georgia's foster children don't...
3/23/2024 9:06:00 AM More Evidence that States Need a Massive Change in Services for Foster Children By Taylor Duma A story from Oklahoma analyzes the problems that the foster care system in that state is facing. The root problem is that the state...
2/3/2024 10:52:20 AM Arizona Foster System Under Fire By Taylor Duma More and more states are examining their foster care system, and the latest agency under the microscope is the Arizona Department of...
11/4/2023 9:34:14 AM Did Georgia DFCS Really "Lose" 1800 Children? By Taylor Duma News media and politicians are hyping a new report that Georgia DFCS lost track of 1790 children between 2018 and 2022. The implication...