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Building Better Foster Care
Look West: How California is Leading the Nation
English - April 18, 2024 13:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 53 ratingsGovernment News look west california assembly legislature assemblymembers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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California’s foster care system is in desperate need of an upgrade. The list of problems is long…and the outcomes for foster youth have been poor in far too many cases. May is Foster Care Awareness Month so we sat down with Assemblymember Dr. Cory Jackson, a leading voice in the effort to improve the child welfare system, to talk about what needs to be done to fix the problems facing California’s foster care children.