Barbara Draimin
Biography
Dr. Barbara Draimin is founder and Executive Director of The Family Center, a New York City agency of 30 staff who help parents with illnesses such as AIDS and cancer plan for the future of their children. The Family Center provides in-home legal and social services to families, conducts research, and provides skill-based programs for children. She writes the following piece as a former consumer in the kinship foster care system of New York City. Her views are drawn solely from personal experience.
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Kinship Foster Parents:
Susan (age 15), Bobby (age 6), and Asia (age 6 months) were removed from their home on Monday afternoon and taken to emergency foster care. When the police and child welfare came to remove the... [more]
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