Dec 30, 2024 · The Imprint was fortunate to feature dozens of perspectives and analyses in our Opinion section this year. The following is a selection not necessarily of the best 10 pieces from 2024, but strong work that captures the breadth of topics within child welfare and youth justice that were written by Imprint columnists this year.

On this Headlines edition of The Imprint Weekly Podcast, we stick with Capitol Hill where a lot went down around the holidays. We discuss the arrest of a former foster youth and advocate arrested after a celebration of the Chafee Act, along with some child welfare legislation that made it into law (and one bill that did not).

According to a March report released by NYC Family Policy Project, half of all hotline calls nationwide are “screened out,” or determined to fall short of requiring a CPS visit. But in New York State, 75% of calls are passed along to local child welfare agencies for investigation. The majority of those calls — almost 80% in New York City alone — turned out to be unfounded or false ...

4 days ago · I’m not that naive to think that my perspective on this is more than just that: one person’s voice. But even with our differences, we can create for the new leadership team a compelling, nonpartisan narrative that highlights the nuances and wickedly gray areas of our work, while still messaging child safety and family preservation.

Oct 21, 2024 · One of the most troubling aspects of hidden foster care is the significant barriers it creates to family reunification. Without court-ordered case plans, families are often left to navigate an opaque and unregulated system, with no clear pathway to bring their children home.

Dec 18, 2024 · In 2024, for the first time, a few states moved toward establishing an expectation of active efforts for most or all of the children and families involved with child welfare cases. The highest profile of these laws was the Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionately Act, a long-sought piece of legislation in Minnesota aimed at addressing the ...

Dec 5, 2024 · The Trump rule came much earlier, first announced in the spring of 2019. It greatly limited the scope of ICWA elements to be added to AFCARS, and entirely scrapped plans to add information about sexual orientation and gender identity of children and parents.

Advocates say these programs meet only a fraction of the need. Out of the roughly 1,000 young adults who age out of foster care at age 21 in New York City each year, city and national data have shown that more than 20% risk homelessness within six years.. The Harlem housing complex on W. 126th Street is the Foundling’s second similar development.

Sep 3, 2024 · Imprint Author Sarah Berger Gonzalez. Sarah Berger Gonzalez is a policy fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, and has worked on cash transfer programs and related policies for over 17 years.

Dec 12, 2024 · For four in 10 youth who are placed in congregate care, Stumler cites, there is no clinical need for them to live in a group facility. And “research consistently shows that children fare best in families, not facilities.”