28 Sep, 2024 Georgia Childcare Centers Face Insurance Crisis By Debbie Ausburn An excellent investigative article from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation examines a problem that my clients have been talking about...
19 Aug, 2024 Lack of Mental Health Care Plagues Foster Care System By Debbie Ausburn A story from New Hampshire highlights one of the biggest issues for the foster care system, namely, providing adequate mental health...
07 Aug, 2024 Extended Family Model of Foster Care Shows Benefits By Debbie Ausburn A report from Australia looks at the benefits of the Mockingbird model of foster care, first pioneered in the U.S. The model creates a...
31 Jul, 2024 Minnesota Adds More Requirements for Foster Care By Debbie Ausburn Minnesota recently passed legislation designed to keep more children out of foster care. Rather than the prior “reasonable efforts” to...
27 Jul, 2024 Interventions for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Lack Evidentiary Basis By Debbie Ausburn A recent review of various studies looking at programs for youth aging out of foster care found no evidence supporting any of the...
03 Jun, 2024 The Main Reason We Don't Have Enough Foster Families By Debbie Ausburn As we close out National Foster Care Month, I want to look at two news articles that came out the same day in April. In the first, the...
08 May, 2024 How to Help Foster Families By Debbie Ausburn May is National Foster Care Month, and National Foster Care Day is this week. Not many people have the calling to become a foster...
04 May, 2024 Texas Lowers Its Foster Care Population By Debbie Ausburn As my colleague, Tom Rawlings, noted in his recent Substack article, federal Judge Janis Jack is still struggling with the laws of supply...
01 May, 2024 Georgia’s Foster Children Don't Have Access to Consistent Mental Health Care By Debbie Ausburn Mental health care is the most crucial need for most children who have experienced trauma. Unfortunately, Georgia's foster children don't...
23 Mar, 2024 More Evidence that States Need a Massive Change in Services for Foster Children By Debbie Ausburn A story from Oklahoma analyzes the problems that the foster care system in that state is facing. The root problem is that the state...
03 Feb, 2024 Arizona Foster System Under Fire By Debbie Ausburn More and more states are examining their foster care system, and the latest agency under the microscope is the Arizona Department of...
04 Nov, 2023 Did Georgia DFCS Really "Lose" 1800 Children? By Debbie Ausburn News media and politicians are hyping a new report that Georgia DFCS lost track of 1790 children between 2018 and 2022. The implication...