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Post-Partisan; the Power of Foster Care Politics
While the nation bemoans a “gridlocked” Congress and Comedy Central’s Messrs. Stewart and Colbert aptly ridicule both Presidential candidates for a disregard of specificity on one hand and hubris on...
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Sen. Mary Landrieu on Foster Care, Education and a Growing Movement
On August 2nd, Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Mark Begich (D-Ala.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced the...
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Juvenile Dependency Courts 101
What it’s like to be a parent involved in the dependency court system. - by Stephanie Ludwig Imagine, you need to rush your child to the hospital and you don’t have a car seat. You make a split second...
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Bachmann on Being a Foster Mom, the Foster Youth Caucus and Uninterrupted...
The day before Congress went into summer recess on August 3rd, Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) sat down with FMC’s Daniel Heimpel to discuss her experience as a foster mother, the formation...
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Youth Services Insider: Time for New Numbers on Adoption Disruption
by John Kelly Youth Services Insider was able to attend a recent roundtable discussion on prevention the disruption of adoptions involving children in foster care. The conversation started on that...
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A Court Without Judgement
Rural Siskiyou County’s Family Dependency Treatment Court is keeping families who struggle with alcohol and drug addictions from losing their children through a mix of tough love, patched-together...
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An Open Letter Calling for Ethical Coverage of Juvenile Dependency Proceedings
An appeal to journalists across the country to gain access to juvenile dependency courts, write about their findings and end the cloak of confidentiality obstructing deeper, necessary reform to the...
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Congress Rolling on Uninterrupted Scholars Act
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and RJ Sloke appearing on FOX News Live – Sept. 17, 2012. Last week, Members of Congress converged on Washington DC for a short legislative session before the elections. In...
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In San Francisco, Dependency Court Trying to Roll with the Fiscal Punches
by Angela Penny On a sunny Thursday morning earlier this month, San Francisco Judge Linda Colfax takes her place in Room 402 of the courthouse to hear four dependency cases, just her first series on...
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California’s Contribution to National Educational Opportunity for Foster...
By. Daniel Heimpel On January 1st, the House passed the Uninterrupted Scholars Act, a bill that marks another important step on the longer road to increased educational opportunity for students in...
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