Lack of volunteers is hurting children in Arizona’s foster-care system
Each of the 15,869 children in Arizona’s foster-care system are supposed to have an advocate, someone who fills a role somewhere between friend and lawyer. But only 10 percent of... Read More
Foster Care Arizona Daily Star investigation: Fixing our foster care crisis
After peaking with nearly 19,000 children in foster care in 2016, Arizona set out to keep more families together and pull fewer kids from their... Read More
Richard Wexler: SB 1473 is a detour from real child welfare reform and would remove the kinship care preference in Arizona law. Study after study has shown children do better when placed with relatives.
Remember “crack babies”? Back in the 1980s, they were the infants supposedly doomed to a life of “certain suffering, of probable deviance, of permanent inferiority.”... Read More
There are 10,000 kids in foster care in Maricopa County alone
You don’t need to be a foster parent and take a child in 24/7, or adopt a child in foster care to make a difference. You... Read More
Darcy Olsen: Don’t let vulnerable children linger in foster care
As a foster parent for seven years, I’ve cradled the opioid crisis in my arms.With parents unwilling or unable to get clean, 50,000 newborns will... Read More
