Pandemic-stressed foster care system welcomes creative solutions
Erica Schultz, a foster care licensing specialist in Arlington Heights, Illinois, says the number of licensed foster homes in her agency has grown during the pandemic, from 37 last spring to 44 now. Overall, though, “the whole system has become more sluggish,” says Jill Duerr Berrick, a child welfare researcher and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “It’s made it more difficult to provide services to families ... [and] to get kids in regular contact with their families.” Why We Wrote This While exacerbating long-standing difficulties in the foster care system, the ...
Source: csmonitor.com