TLDR: As AI becomes more sophisticated, child welfare professionals will increasingly need to champion the importance of human connection, empathy, and compassion in caring for children and families. Those that do will carve out a distinctive and essential role that uniquely emphasizes the human elements in child welfare, especially as AI capabilities grow and state agencies use AI to increase…
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The Louisiana Legislature is active on children’s bills, but Louisiana ranks poorly on child well-being. Would a Louisiana Office of Children’s Ombudsman help? Louisiana’s Legislature is one of the more active among the 16 southern states on bills related to child welfare. When ranked by the average number of bills it addresses related to child welfare matters, Louisiana’s Legislature is…
As it often does regarding the Department of Children and Family Services, former Governor Jindal’s name popped up in Louisiana news this week in stories about children poorly protected by DCFS. We did not get here today, it’s been a long decline. It is hard to dispute the Jindal administration’s drastic impact on Louisiana’s child welfare system, but in my…
While reading this morning’s news reports about child welfare among the states, the following struggles seem to be the most significant and common problems of child welfare agencies around the country. 1. First is the problem of children being removed from parents and placed into foster care for reasons of neglect because removal is a state child welfare system’s obvious…
Child welfare readings for 10/30/2020
This morning I read a Twitter post about the success of Medicaid expansion which reported that 97% of Louisiana’s children now have some form of health insurance coverage. In a state which holds the dubious distinction of holding the average position of 49th for 29 years when ranked for child well-being, 97% coverage for health care is astoundingly significant! Online…
A brief discourse presented to the Louisiana Interchurch Conference’s Fall Board of Directors Meeting, by Rick Wheat, President and Chief Executive Officer, Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services, on September 25, 2017, at St. Xavier Cathedral Catholic Church Complex, Alexandria, Louisiana. Good afternoon! You cannot imagine how excited I am to share a few words with all of you…