Stoneleigh Fellow Steve Volk featured Germantown activists advocating for child welfare reform after recent efforts by Philadelphia’s City Council to revisit and review the foster care system.
Carolyn Hill still remembers every goodbye with her nieces.
She had taken in her sister’s children through the city’s foster care system almost one year earlier, and had just returned with the girls and a bagful of McDonald’s when their case manager called and said she wanted to see them.
Hill, who by this time had raised five kids of her own, “all grown and out,” took the call as routine. Minutes later, the case manager arrived with the police. “They took the kids so fast, they didn’t even let them finish their food.
