"State and local governments need culturally appropriate strategies to ensure positive outcomes for children and families of color in the foster care system, according to a panel of child welfare experts.The recommendations came at a workshop during the America Healing conference sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation to examine strategies on how to address health, education, political and economic well-being issues for children.
Foster care “is not good for any child,” said Antoinette Malveaux, managing director of Casey Family Programs."
Reported by Jackie Jones from BlackAmericaWeb.com, she talks about the struggles and the hardships that minority children like African Americans face while going through the foster care system that is in place right now.
A new program that is being developed and hopefully soon to be intergated is a ten-point plan designed by Sondra Jackson,the Black Administration in Child Welfare's organization executive, which is designed to address the needs of black children, while also benefiting all children regardless of their race.
To read more about this article:
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/28979/1
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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