The year is 2001. A new caseworker named Greta Archbold has been assigned to a specialized unit focusing on kinship care in New York City. On her caseload are a brother and sister in middle school.


After a year in foster care, she learns that the kids have an aunt who is willing and able to take custody of them. The aunt lives in Maryland and the kids are in New York, so an ICPC is required. She checks in with the kids and they want to live with their aunt. After the agency completes a safety...

30% of child welfare professionals today—those working in foster care agencies, group homes, child protective services, and more—will not be working in this system next year, according to Casey Family Programs. 


“As a program manager, that was one of the most frustrating realities of leading a team responsible for such important work: When we finally got new people hired and trained up, three or four months in, they decided to work in another industry. That impacts the morale of the entire or...

If you’re a foster parent, you know that there is one unifying goal for every child in foster care: permanency. The best way to achieve that is typically through reunification. In fact, the majority of children and youth in foster care will be reunified with their families. 


You are in a unique position to make a positive impact on a young person’s life by supporting reunification efforts. But, even so, you may have questions about this goal and how you can help. 


We spoke with an AdoptUSK...

Seattle’s bike share program continues to provide communities around the city with a healthy and environmentally friendly way to get around. Our most recent bike share report shows that people took over 750,000 rides in July through September, bringing the total number of trips to over 1.6 million in the first nine months of the year. The number of people using bike share has been as high as one of King County Metro’s top 10 most ridden bus lines!
 
The latest report also indicates that people a...

Tolls will result in changing downtown Seattle traffic patterns yet again.  When tolling first begins, we expect a percentage of drivers will experiment with different ways to get downtown. This means they might choose to use I-5, Alaskan Way, or local streets.  
 
We also expect many of those drivers will gradually return to the tunnel, as the tunnel remains the fastest way to get through downtown Seattle. Tunnel tolls vary with the time-of-day and range from $1 to $2.25 with a Good To Go! pass...

University of Washington students gathered in Red Square on Nov. 29 to protest the Trump administration’s proposed graduate school tax. Signs with the words “Universities Run on Coffee and Grad Students” and “If I can’t even afford Top Ramen, I’ll eat the rich” were held high in the air. The walkout, hosted by UAW Local 4121 and UW Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS), was a space for students to express their anger towards the tax proposal. According to the New York Times, what is at...

Seattle has now reached the 2-year anniversary of its state-of-emergency declaration on homelessness. To address this, the U-District Conversation on Homeless (UCDH) held an event Nov. 1 at University Congregational United Church of Christ, where community members gathered to discuss the housing, outreach, and mass-entry shelter, or HOMES, tax proposal.

The event opened with introductions where audience members and conveners shared the groups they were associated with. Most people in attendance...