ICYMI: CASCW’s Executive Director discusses 5 recommendations for foster care success in CEHD’s Vision 2020 Blog

On Friday, May 31, at the conclusion of National Foster Care Month, Dr. Traci LaLiberte, the executive director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, wrote for the College of Education and Human Development’s Vision 2020 Blog on how we can improve child welfare services through research. The recommendations she listed were:

  1. Practitioners must be trauma sensitive.
  2. Kids should remain connected to people, routines, and activities in their current lives while in out-of-home care.
  3. Kids must be supported in their connections with adults and be able to understand safe connections.
  4. Professionals should work together across fields/systems to promote children’s well-being.
  5. Professionals should actively attend to the wider range of well-being indicators for children in out-of-home care.

Read the entire blog post here, and let us know what you think!