Ending the Foster Care to Dropout Pipeline
Ending the Foster Care to Dropout Pipeline Instead of ripping children’s lives apart, kinship care creates a more effective support for system for Black students.
Keeping Families Together: Addressing Needs of Relative Caregivers
In this episode, Dr. Valerie Jackson shares how Monarch Family Services got started as a child placing agency providing specialized support for biological families and kinship (relative) caregivers. We discuss how the needs of kinship families (relative caregivers) differ from typical foster families and why additional support is needed to keep these families intact.
Kinship Care – Dr. Jackson
Dr. Jackson gives an amazing overview of Monarch Family Services.
“Grandma Needs Help” Examining Social Supports for Kinship Caregivers
Desdamona Rios PhD, Edna Herrera, Aundrea Enrique, Lluvia Larios, Stephanie Zepeda,
Victoria Palacios DeLeon, Althea Lacewell MSW, and Valerie D Jackson PhD
Monarch Family Services Kinship Programs
Monarch Family Services compassionately and professionally delivers services to improve the lives of children and to strengthen families. Our agency is family-focused because we recognize every child and family has a unique path toward healing. MFS provides integrated and comprehensive services across family service spectrum.
Foster Care and Adoption in the State of Texas
Foster Care and Adoption
in the State of Texas
“Kin First” Child Placement Agency
Monarch Family Services is a “Kin First” Child Placement Agency that provides specialized services to assist relatives with being verified as a temporary or permanent caregivers for children who are in the custody of CPS. We also offer supportive services during the placement process as well as after permanency is established.
HCL Research Lab, Alumna Collaborate to Support Texas Foster Kids
A University of Houston-Clear Lake student, professor and alumna are combining efforts to improve the lives of over 50,000 Texas children in foster care.
One Former Foster Child’s Simple Plan to Fix a Broken System
There are currently more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States. While the pandemic has made life more difficult for these vulnerable kids, many say the foster care system itself has been putting them at risk for decades. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault sat down with one former foster child who is now on a mission to fix the system by helping families stay together.
Panaid Impact Report
“The PanAid money I received helped me afford to care for my two young children and pay my bills. Covid had deeply affected my family and had caused me to lose my job. In addition, it has been harder to find consistent work. The PanAid money was also helpful as it allowed me to get my vehicle running again”
-PainAid Family
