A recent report ranked Utah first in the nation for placing foster children in safe, stable homes.
SALT LAKE CITY — As the collectively youngest state in the nation, children are often at the forefront of Utahn's minds.
"As far as a child welfare system, very heavily focused on issues related to safety, permanency and well-being and it's really, particularly, a lot of that attention to permanency, having children that linger in foster care. That helps, I think, with some of the measurements in this report," he continued.
The Adoption and Safe Families Act, enacted in 1997, was intended to speed up the legal process and shorten the time a child spends in foster care. The act moved the process away from focusing on reunification of the family, regardless of the length or probability of the process, and instead focuses on moving the child out of the system.
"You want every parent to have an opportunity to address the challenges, needs and issues — through support services, through our case management, or excellent work that our caseworkers do through our contractor providers, the rest of the child welfare system. We really try to work together in a way that we can effectively reunify these children if at all possible as our primary goal," he added.
"I think it's helpful to understand sometimes for some of the older youth that come into foster care, sometimes they'll come in with issues that they're been struggling with. So in providing those needed supports and services may take that beyond the traditional federal permanency time frames to get those youth the services and supports they need to be in a better position," explained Jackson.
"One thing that I've seen, just firsthand, is the level of systemic harm and generational trauma that has impacted so many different families and people. And I think people are so quick to judge and have thoughts about what occurs for a child to be taken and removed from the home," said Garrett.
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