Children in crisis need immediate help to keep them safe and longer-term assistance to stabilize their lives, especially if they can’t return to their families. Alaska’s foster care system has long been challenged by a need for more case workers and foster families, but now the lack of social workers and willing caretakers has reached a crisis level. What’s being done to help vulnerable young people have a safe place to live?

Listen:

HOST: Lori Townsend

GUESTS:

• Amanda Metivier, Interim Director, Child Welfare Academy
• Aileen McInnis, Director, Alaska Center for Resource Families
• Laura Ingham, foster parent

LINKS & RESOURCES:

The COVID-19 pandemic is leaving more children in Alaska’s foster care system without a stable home

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LIVE Broadcast: Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022 at 10 a.m. on APRN stations statewide.

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