Failing Our Youth: An Inadequate Foster Care System (Encore)

This is a special encore edition of Making Contact that takes a look at issues within the foster care system in the U.S. from the high rate of teen pregnancy to the alarming use of psychiatric medications in California’s foster care system.

Special thanks to the Bay Area News Group.

Featured speakers/guests:

Nicole Rocke, former foster youth; Kyle Lafferty, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy: Linda Bryant, Clinical Professor at New York University s School of Social Work; Benita Miller, Deputy Commissioner of Family Permanency Services.

Credits:

Host: Jasmin Lopez
Producers: Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender, Laura Flynn, Jasmin Lopez
Contributing Producer: Leticia Miranda, Bay Area News Group
Community Storytelling Fellow: Alice Wong
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Web Editor: Kwan Booth 


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