Congratulations to the 2022 MPLD graduates!
During the 3-day graduation event, fellows presented their research projects.
During the 3-day graduation event, fellows presented their research projects.
What would it look like if systems of care amplified our efforts in terms of engaging fathers? MPLD graduate Tamara Simmons asks this and more.
“As a child welfare professional, I believe that it is my role and responsibility to lift youth’s voices in their permanency planning so that other children do not silently move through life the way that I did as a teenager.”
16 MPLD fellows will learn about transformational leadership, take a closer look at disproportionality in child welfare, and complete an action research project that addresses a challenge in their local child welfare system.
In September, the third cohort of the AdoptUSKids MPLD program graduated in a three-day online ceremony.
Through his action research project, MPLD fellow Gilbert Soto identified barriers to kinship placements and helped to increase those placements in New Jersey.