Child Welfare and Racial Justice
Dear friends, This has been a heartbreaking, infuriating, painful week. We are outraged at the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the violent deaths of so many […]
Foster America’s Op-Ed in the Boston Globe on COVID-19 and Child Welfare
With the Coronavirus, America’s Foster Care System is at a Tipping Point As vulnerable families confront joblessness, illness, and social isolation due to COVID-19, the number of children entering foster […]
Our Reflection on the COVID-19 Crisis and Child Welfare
Over the past several weeks, we have watched the environment around us change rapidly, as our nation and world face a public health crisis greater than any we have encountered […]
Introducing Cohort 4
In October 2019, we launched our fourth cohort of fellows. Here is a short video introducing them:
Cohort 3 Convening in St. Paul, MN: A guest post by intern Isabel Greenberg
Isabel Greenberg just completed her first year at Pitzer College in California. She is interning with Foster America for summer 2019 and attended the fellowship convening in St. Paul, Minnesota. […]
Collective Impact Updates from Colorado
As part of our third fellowship cohort, we placed a total of five fellows across different jurisdictions in the state of Colorado. This distribution has allowed us to explore whether […]
Los Angeles County impact presentations
This week our five Los Angeles County Fellows presented their progress on innovation projects at the intersection of child welfare and mental health to a gathering of 100 county officials, […]
Cohort 3 Convening in Denver, CO
April was an exciting month for our Cohort 3 fellows, as they met up with the Foster America team in Denver, Colorado for their first quarterly convening. Currently five of […]
A Focus on Equity
Our fellows gathered in Montgomery, AL, on January 22, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, for our first quarterly training and development convening of 2019. It was a […]
Cohort 3 Preservice Training
In January 2019, we hosted a two-week preservice training for our 18 new Foster America fellows. Cohort 3 first convened in Silver Spring, MD during the week of January 7th […]
