Our Kids Archives - Resolve Philly

For years, people with intimate knowledge of foster care practices at the Department of Human Services cited similar problems: random and subjective decision-making, the confusion of poverty and neglect, an unstable workforce riven by turnover — and more.

Will Philly finally fix its foster care system?

Philly toddler apparently drowned in bath as foster mother ‘at her max’ tended the microwave

Germantown Women’s activists push for action over talk

How Philly can look to New Jersey to fix its child welfare system

Cómo Filadelfia puede inspirarse en Nueva Jersey para reformar su sistema de bienestar infantil

Dentro del sistema de acogida oculto de Filadelfia, donde los padres ceden a sus hijos “voluntariamente”

Inside Philly’s hidden foster care system, where parents ‘voluntarily’ give up their children

Philly removes neglected children from homes to keep them safe. But they often face worse abuse in foster care placements.

Filadelfia retira a niños de hogares negligentes para protegerlos, pero a menudo sufren abusos peores en el sistema de acogida.