Author Calls for Foster Care “Healing” Overhaul Amid Trauma, Homelessness Concerns

By: Paul W. Taylor

Outlets: TVW

Published: May 7, 2026

Words: 818

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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Washington state is emerging as a national leader in kinship care even as lawmakers struggle with broader failures in the foster care system, according to journalist and author Claudia Rowe.

Interviewed on TVW’s Inside Olympia, Rowe discussed her book Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care, a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award. The book examines how instability in foster care placements can contribute to homelessness, incarceration, …

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