Growing Up in the Care of Strangers

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Eleven former child welfare clients share their experiences, insights and recommendations for improving services to and the outcome of children in foster care, orphanages, juvenile justice and mental health placements.  Now college-educated adults who work with or on behalf of children in placement, their individual and collective wisdom questions current "best practice" and offers alternatives. [William Gladden Foundation Press]

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“This book is a must read for all persons charged with the responsibility of ensuring ‘the best interests’ of children in the foster care system. The stories provide valuable insights that can form the basis of a much-needed restructuring of the child welfare, juvenile justice and mental health systems. The question is, will the ‘experts’ have the courage to listen and act on this information?”

Judge Ernestine Gray,

Orleans Parish Juvenile Court, New Orleans, Louisiana,
current President of the National CASA Board of Trustees
and past President of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges