The child welfare system (CWS) has been criticized for discriminating against children and families of color. While research often looks at individual or community issues, it often has not addressed CWS’s historical or systemic problems. A recent article by Profs. Judith Scott at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW), Bridget Cho at University of South […]
Despite the federal government’s efforts to improve the child welfare system over the past few decades, the system’s deeply ingrained issues prevail due to child poverty. In a recent op-ed, child welfare experts Profs. Astraea Augsberger and Mary Collins explain that until the government addresses the underlying issue of poverty, children in the welfare system […]
In a special double issue of “Poverty, Race, & Child Welfare,” guest co-editors Prof. Lenette Azzi-Lessing and University of Colorado Boulder Prof. Vandra Sinha begin their foreword with the same struggle many have encountered over the past two years: “We couldn’t have envisioned the transformative events that would take place by the time of the […]
Julie Sweeney Springwater (SSW’94), an adjunct associate professor at Boston University School of Social Work, is retiring from the board of the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) after nearly two decades of service. A coalition of hundreds of private and public agencies, the CWLA has served children and families since 1920. Christine James-Brown, the […]