Fall 2022 Issue | Vol. 1 | Issue 4
30 | Kinship Matters: Reflections from the Bench on Preserving Children's Right to Family
50 | Best Interest Determinations: Lessons Learned from Tribal Child Welfare Agency, Court Professionals, and Youths Angelique Day
A Journal for Family Well-Being
Judge Edwina Richardson Mendelson
CONTENTS
Claudette Grinnell-Davis Dakota Roundtree-Swain
MY PERSPECTIVE 14 | Liliana Cory
60 | What the System Taught Me Cheri Willams A BETTER WAY 68 | Facilitating Kinship Licensure and Foster Care Exists to Guardianship
6 | Securing and Restoring the Family Is in the Child's Best Interests Jey Rajaraman Alexandra Travis Iesha Hammons FOREWORD 10 | When Best Interests are Not: The Need to Redefine the Best Interest of the Child
17 | On The Cover
Angelique Day Grace Nielson Scout Hartley Charles E. Lewis, Jr.
David Kelly Jerry Milner
REFLECTIONS 76 | A Conversation with Carolyn Tancemore Jey Rajaraman
▶ 38 Smile
An Original Poem Titus Smith ▶ 40 Every Year Since 1984 An Original Poem Diane Redleaf
FEATURES 18 | Creating a Strong Legal
Preference for Kinship Care Josh Gupta-Kagan
42 | Family Is in a Child's Best Interest Amelia S. Watson
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