The Social Work Lens: A podcast made for child welfare professionals and caregivers.
The Social Work Lens podcast focuses on social work & child welfare topics, and brings you the voices of youth, caregivers, social workers, and subject matter experts. Follow along and join the team at the University of Vermont’s Child Welfare Training Partnership (CWTP) as they bring you interviews on all things child welfare.
Welcome to the conclusion of our series on the Foster Care to Prison Pipeline. In this episode, we are joined by Jaylyn Van Fossen, who was previously in the foster care system in Vermont and currently a Social Work student, to discuss the barriers, needs, and hope for change centered on their lived experience and
In this episode we will be continuing our discussion of the Foster Care to Prison Pipeline, focusing in on this system as it pertains to Vermont. This will be a discussion with two extremely knowledgeable individuals from the Department for Children and Families, Family Service Division; Deputy Commissioner Aryka Radke and Adolescent Services Unit Director
In this episode, Mackenzie Leonard interviews Dr. Sherri Simmons-Horton about her incredible work around what is being referred to as “The Foster Care to Prison Pipeline”. In part one of this three-part series Mackenzie will explore the national trends and outcomes that Dr. Sherri has found, as well as her professional findings in regard to
Within the quiet rolling hills of Vermont exists a sanctuary like no other. A space where love, community, self-discovery, acceptance, and belonging hangs in the air and on every proudly hung flag notifying everyone “You are exactly where and who you should be”. According to the 2023 Vermont Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 29% of Vermont
In this episode Chynah sits down with Award Winning filmmaker Chithra Jeyram to discuss her journey creating her new documentary Love Chaos Kin and how one family opened her eyes to a dizzying array of complicated narratives around adoption in America. Chithra, researching her own options for adoption, finds family in a transracially adopted family that
Adoption is complicated. In this episode, Dr. Seungmi Laura Cho, a critical qualitative researcher, reflects on her experience researching Korean Adoptees and her work with “Anti-Adopterism”. Guest Info: Seungmi Laura Cho, Ph.D. is a critical interdisciplinary qualitative researcher, who investigates so-called socioemotional and behavioral problems that are associated with adoption status and racial difference as reflections of
