3:30-5:30 p.m. |
Child Welfare Reforms – Supporting Foster Parents and Caseworkers
Speakers:
Senator A.J. Griffin (R-Okla.)
Dr. Linda Davidson Sagor, MD, MPH, University of Massachusetts Medical School, American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care Executive Committee Member
Dr. Dawn Matera Bassett, MSW, LCSW, PhD Associate Professor, College of Professional Studies, Chair Colorado Child Welfare Caseworker Resiliency Task Force, Colorado
Dr. Michael Cull, Ph.D., Deputy Commissioner, Child Health, Tennessee Department of Children and Families
Moderators:
Rob Geen, Director Policy Reform and Advocacy, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Nina Williams-Mbengue, NCSL
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Resources:
- NCSL’s Reasonable and Prudent Parenting Standard Legislation
- NCSL’s Foster Care Bill of Rights
- NCSL’s Supporting Relative Caregivers
- NCSL’s Child Welfare Enacted Legislation Database
- NCSL’s Child Welfare Project
- Oklahoma 2017 Senate Bill 727
- Colorado 2017 House Bill 17-1283
- A Movement to Transform Foster Parenting, Annie E. Casey Foundation
- CHAMPS Campaign, Annie E. Casey Foundation
- 2017 U.S. Adoption Attitudes Survey
- Child Welfare [state-specific] Fact Sheets for FFY 2015, Child Trends
- Applying principles from safety science to improve child protection, November 2013, Cull, et.al.
- Assessing safety culture in child welfare: Evidence from Tennessee, April 2016, Vogus, et.al.
- A Systems Approach to Investigating Child Abuse Deaths, April 2005, Munro
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