MRPA Blog: News & Events
Resource Parent Survey – Licensed Foster Parent Responses Requested!
The Maryland Department of Human Services, Social Services Administration (DHS/SSA) is striving to increase authentic partnerships between staff, resource parents, and biological parents to improve safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes for children. DHS/SSA is...
NBC News Article Featuring MRPA Executive Director Arnold Eby: Foster kids who can’t visit parents are struggling under coronavirus isolation, advocates say
"It's difficult to help them understand what's going on," a foster father said. "Sometimes even we don't understand." Read the full article HERE.
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
A message from the Maryland Department of Human Services. We’ve gone blue for National Child Abuse Prevention Month 💙. Learn the signs of abuse/neglect and how to report suspected instances by visiting bit.ly/2o2ibsp. Together, we can keep kids safe.
Child Welfare Stakeholder Survey
Please help us share this survey! The University of Washington is conducting a survey about how to improve child welfare supports to maximize the ability of reunifying children with their birth families. We want to help make sure foster parents/kinship caregiver...
Census 2020 is Coming! ‘Count All Kids’ Toolkit
The 2020 Census Is Approaching It is critical that ALL children be counted accurately. View the toolkit, below, on the Count All Kids.org website to learn more about how YOU can make sure all children in your community are counted.
National Foster Parent Association 2020 Scholarships Now Open
MRPA would like to share this notification about NFPA Scholarships! 2020 Scholarship Applications Now Open The National Foster Parent Association's Youth and Continuing Education Scholarship Fund was established to benefit foster, adoptive, and birth children of NFPA...
Save the Dates: Together Toward Tomorrow 50th Annual Education Conference June 18-21
CBS News This Morning: New Federal Program for Young Adults Aging out of Foster Care
New federal program helps young adults aging out of foster care: "Who would think that I would go to college?" Every year, more than 20,000 teenagers age out of the foster care system. Within four years, about 5,000 of them are homeless. A new federal program called...
Throwaway Kids – Part One of Six Star investigation reveals stark outcomes for America’s foster care children (A Kansas City Star Article)
Quote from the article: He still has the last name of a woman who adopted him in grade school — then gave him back. From the time he was 3 until he turned 14, Dominic Williamson was bounced to 80 different foster homes. When he turned 18, he found himself alone and...
A Letter from Rebecca Jones Gaston, MSW Executive Director, Social Services MD Dept of Human Services
MRPA would like to share the following letter from Ms. Jones Gaston with our Resource Families. November 1, 2019 Dear Colleagues, Partners, and Friends, It is bittersweet to pen this letter as I depart from the Maryland Department of Human Services Social Services...