Foster care system in urgent need of reform as opioid crisis strains system
July 18, 2018 – MILWAUKEE, WI – The Assembly Foster Care Task Force, chaired by Representatives Snyder and Doyle, recently completed their final report and submitted recommendations for legislative reform. The ...
It’s been documented in great detail just how the opioid crisis has torn families apart and ravaged communities in Wisconsin.
WILL Research Fellow, Natalie Goodnow, writes in the Washington Examiner on the impact of the opioid crisis on the country's foster care system.
We may not always think of children when we think of this, but they are a voiceless population that bears some of the worst repercussions of the ...
Today the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) released Flooding The System: A Study of Opioids and Out-of-Home Care in Wisconsin. This original analysis, authored by Research Fellow Natalie Goodnow and Research Director Will Flanders, found a relationship between Wisconsin’s opioid crisis and the number of children in out-of-home care.