Foster Impact

Foster Impact seeks to dramatically reduce the number of children and families who encounter the child welfare system in the United States.

[Foster Impact @FosterImpact]

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[Foster Impact @FosterImpact]

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[Glennon Doyle @GlennonDoyle]

I need every presidential hopeful to stop campaigning and figure out how to get the precious children in these camps safe, fed, and back in their parents arms. Stop giving interviews and start saving children. Stop talking about leading and LEAD.

[SparkAction @sparkaction]

Read the new @ChildDefender report on children living in poverty, and how we can all help end it by improving and investing in existing policies and programs that meets children's basic needs and support pathways to #opportunity. #OpportunityYouth https://t.co/tLZCS8dnaR

[Foster Impact @FosterImpact]

This: “estimates are that 30% of children (...seen numbers as high as 50%) are in foster care due to housing problems. The thought process seems to be that it’s not okay for a child to be homeless with his or her family but that it’s okay for the state to make a child homeless”

[Vivek Sankaran @vivekssankaran]

Separating #children from #parents is traumatic enough. But imagine being removed and then not having anywhere to live. Read about this practice here. Thank you @krebs_cathy from writing this! @ABAesq @ABACCL https://t.co/R5EIzVQc54

[The Imprint @TheImprintNews]

Hearings: Emergency cases make up nearly half of all removals into foster care in New York City. Reporter @mchlftzgrld was present for one that might have started over a bad report from a teacher https://t.co/PLO23gxlS8

[Foster Impact @FosterImpact]

We would add questions on how issues like affordable housing and living wage are linked to children and families!

[Guillermo @GuillermoCJr]

.@CNN for your next youth orientated town hall let’s mix it up a bit. Here’s a list of requests:

• Diverse moderators
• Students of Color
• Young Adults who attend community college
• Young Adults who never went to college

@TheWayWithAnoa anything I’m missing here?

[Foster Impact @FosterImpact]

The Fight for $15 is a Fight for Children and Families
From @workdaymn: https://t.co/D5JJG6bWzj
#AllourFights #AllourFamilies

[The Imprint @TheImprintNews]

A major Senate bill is in the works that would kill the income test that federal #fostercare funds are pegged to, and ease state transitions to the Family First Act https://t.co/QCN3RDO2Nd #childwelfare

[PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia @PolicyLabCHOP]

Research shows kids in the welfare system have special health care needs at over 2x the rate of the general population. How do we work together to meet their needs? New blog post: https://t.co/P1Wd0PN3h5

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

It’s worth remembering that we can’t disentangle the phenomenon of young black people being murdered, from a history of hypersegregation in black communities. These cities became saturated with violence & poverty because of state-sanctioned actions. This didn’t happen on its own.

[End Homelessness @naehomelessness]

The affordable housing crisis is not just an urban phenomenon: nearly one-fourth of the nation’s most rural counties have seen a sizeable increase this decade in the number of households spending at least half their income on housing. https://t.co/tqttcoKl8v

[Phillip Atiba Goff @DrPhilGoff]

Such good and important work by ⁦@just_shelter⁩. Quantifying the exploitation of renters, they find that landlords are making a killing in poor Black neighborhoods.

Housing Exploitation Is Rife in Poor Neighborhoods https://t.co/Q2FmGc952a

[MoveOn @MoveOn]

A $15 minimum wage means less worrying about covering the cost of basic necessities for ourselves and our families.
Call and tell your Rep. to #RaiseTheWage on Tuesday, March 26, for the #FightFor15 national call-in day!
CALL: 866-426-2631

[End Homelessness @naehomelessness]

"Our task is clear: we must do the hard work of advocating for housing solutions for low-income families."

In a new blog post, Sharon McDonald calls for urgency to connect children & families w affordable housing before they enter the homelessness system https://t.co/59lqrC1SMg

[RWJF @RWJF]

The United States now has the greatest economic inequality of any affluent nation. https://t.co/7VlKtUrYrg

[Children's Defense Fund @ChildDefender]

#ICYMI: We joined 56 groups, including @AmerAcadPeds and @GeorgetownCCF, to speak out against work requirements in Medicaid. We know that when parents lose health coverage, children suffer, too. Read our letter to @SecAzar: https://t.co/5cB368CCfj #protectMedicaid

[Foster Impact @FosterImpact]

We’re excited to spend the day learning about the transformative vision of child welfare leaders from across the country on strengthening families.

[The Imprint @TheImprintNews]

We dove in to the fine print of Trump's 2020 budget to produce a guide to spending on #childwelfare, #juvenilejustice and other services related to children and families. https://t.co/aSd7AcaXDt