Self-Study Articles
We recognize that reading what you want, when you want works best. Below is a curated list of articles that you can choose to read that fulfill Marin CASA Continued Education. Each article you read is worth .5 hours of continued education. Articles with an asterisk* qualify for the Cultural Competency Requirement. Please remember to log your hours in Optima for credit.
The Messenger:
Foster youth in CA state colleges can attend for free.
The Imprint:
Inside Mandated Reporting Reform in Los Angeles County.
The Imprint:
The Untold Story of How a stuborn Group of Parents Helped Shutter the Nation’s Largest Youth Prison System
The Imprint:
Child Welfare Workers Can’t learn From History if it Isn’t Taught
The Imprint:
New York’s Foster Care providers Sue State over Reimbursement Rates
NPR:
Are ‘failure to protect’ laws failing mothers?
New York Times :
How to Support a Friend or Loved One Who Has Been Sexually Abused
NPR:
The Hidden Bill For Foster Care
SF Chronicle :
Girl’s undue jailing exemplifies plight of foster youth in custody
New York Times :
In a Loving Foster Family, but Missing Home
New York Times :
Children of the Opioid Epidemic
New York Times Opinion * :
Race Bias in Child Welfare Investigations
Pro Publica :
Their Father Speaks Spanish. Their Foster Parents Raised Them to Speak Slovak.
Pew Trust :
Foster Parents have Become Professionals in Some States
The Marshall Project:
Foster Care Agencies Take Thousands of Dollars Owed to Foster Youth
New York Times :
The Parents Passed a Drug Test, Should They Get Their Kids Back?
Pro Publica :
Thousands of Foster Children Were Sent Out of State to Mental Health Facilities Where Some Faced Abuse and Neglect
The Imprint * :
Child Welfare is Not Exempt from Structural Racism and Implicit Bias
Vox * :
Why the term “BIPOC” is so complicated, explained by linguists: There is no “one size fits all” language when it comes to talking about race.
The Atlantic Magazine :
Can Unloved Children Learn to Love – 30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact Here’s what’s become of them
The Atlantic :
The Teaching That Works for Traumatized Students
Washington Post * :
Latinx hasn’t even caught on amongst Latinos
American Bar Association * : Race and Poverty Bias in the Child Welfare System – Strategies for Child Welfare Practitioners
Black Families Matter: How the Child Welfare System Punishes Poor Families of Color
The Case for Providing Guaranteed Income to Kids Aging out of Foster Care
The Burden of Being ‘On Point’: Too often, traumatized Black boys’ behavior is pathologized. It’s actually rational.
Ma’Khia Bryant’s Journey Through Foster Care Ended With an Officer’s Bullet
What’s best for Pascual?
“On Culture, Politics and Poverty” by Lawrence Eppard, Noam Chomsky, Mark Rank and David Brad