During Pandemic, New York and Los Angeles Take Different Paths on Family Visits

John Kelly, Michael Fitzgerald and Jeremy Loudenback - The Chronicle of Social Change

This article describes the different approaches taken by New York City and Los Angeles child welfare systems in light of the COVID-19 crisis. "Two of the largest urban foster care systems in the country went in opposite directions on a key question facing every community right now: Whether or not to continue family visits between foster youth and their parents or guardians as the nation retreats indoors to fight the spread of coronavirus," says the article.