Finding a Foster Child’s Forever Home with Davetta Ford | Let’s Talk Kids

Описание: Davetta Ford, State Coordinator of Safe Babies Court Team, discusses how her team’s approach aims to support parents and children involved in the child welfare system, as well as the impacts of family detachment on infants’ brain development, and how their parent organization Child Focus aims to grow their resources and reach in the future.

Learn more about the Safe Babies Court Team or make a donation below!
https://www.njsafebabies.com/ - Safe Babies Court Team
https://www.childfocusnj.org/ - Child Focus
https://casaofnj.org/ - Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)

VIDEO OUTLINE
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - What is the Safe Babies Court Team Approach?
02:49 - What is Permanency?
06:57 - Where does the Safe Babies approach start?
09:11 - Is it difficult for Parents and Attorneys to trust Safe Babies?
12:49 - What resources do you connect Parents with?
14:23 - Are a lot of these parents alone?
16:43 - What is a Mommy & Me program?
20:56 - Does Safe Babies make a difference?
24:51 - Davetta’s motivation and story
29:10 - Impact on Infants’ brain development
31:18 - Case Worker & Safe Babies dynamic
41:32 - Why isn’t Safe Babies statewide in NJ?
42:45 - What is Child Focus?
45:10 - What is CASA?
49:26 - Davetta’s recommended system improvements
54:11 - Outro

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