On this week’s episode we discuss the Trump transition process, the last months of the Biden administration, and recommend some interesting reads from The Imprint and elsewhere this month, including Sara Tiano’s two-part series on the intersection of addiction treatment and child welfare actions such as investigation, removal and reunification. 

Marina Nitze of the Child Welfare Playbook joins us to talk about the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children (ICPC), a longstanding process aimed at ensuring that foster youth who are moved to a new state are protected. We talked to Nitze about the Playbook’s discussions on ICPC, what gaps exist in the system and what states are doing to improve it.  

Reading Room

ICWA Added to Federal Data Collection. Will It Last?
https://imprintnews.org/youth-services-insider/icwa-added-federal-data-collection-will-it-last/256693

Profiles in Youth Work: Lateefah Simon
https://youthtoday.org/2004/06/profiles-in-youth-work_2/

Congressional Candidate Wants to Create a Place for Young Women ‘To Dream, To Fight and To Just Be’
https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/congressional-candidate-wants-to-create-a-place-for-young-women-to-dream-to-fight-and-to-just-be/248299

Penalized for Their Prescriptions: Parents Using Legal Addiction Medications Face Ongoing Discrimination in the Child Welfare System
https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/parents-using-legal-addiction-medications-face-ongoing-discrimination/256350

When Prescribed Medications End in a Call to CPS: One Upstate New York Mom is Fighting Back in Court
https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/when-prescribed-medications-end-in-a-call-to-cps-one-upstate-new-york-mom-is-fighting-back-in-court/256352

Treatment Foster Care for Kids with High Needs Offers Hope, but There's a Shortage of Willing Homes in Wisconsin
https://www.postcrescent.com/story/life/family/2024/11/29/childrens-wisconsin-needs-foster-families-who-can-provide-treatment-care/75887078007/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

The Survivors of Child Sex Abuse Who Don’t Want Their Abusers Punished
https://newrepublic.com/article/188362/child-sex-abuse-survivors-abusers-justice

Foster Youth Are at Great Risk for Suicide As They Prepare to Leave the System, California Study Finds
https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/foster-youth-are-at-great-risk-for-suicide-as-they-prepare-to-leave-the-system-california-study-finds/256210