Child Welfare League of America’s Internet Source At the official page of Child Welfare League of America refer as CWLA; official homepage can be found at www.cwla.org. I found the article called Fostering Sibling Connections: The Sibling Bill of Rights and Grassroots Advocacy, by Nicole Thieman. This article was published in Children’s Voice, Volume 22, Number 1. This article can be found at http://www.cwla.org/sibling-bill-of-rights/. Once in the homepage, on the top it gives different options to click; it’s under publications on Children’s Voice. Once in Children’s Voice it gives different stories and its where this particular article can be found. Fostering Sibling Connections: The Sibling Bill of Rights and Grassroots Advocacy’s Summary This article talks about the progress the system has made for siblings who are being separated while in foster care. …show more content…
It demonstrates how the system used to work before, if the child had a roof over their head, the job was done. This article mainly focuses in the importance in keeping siblings’ together. In March 1, 2006, “Sibling Connection Day,” the first assembly that talk about the importance in keeping siblings’ together while in foster care. It was not until March 2012 when the Sibling Bill of Rights pass, which protects children being separated from their siblings while in the foster care. It talks about the things that are being done to help promote the importance in keeping siblings together; for example, Massachusetts is creating an Alumni network for siblings and organizations like Foster Care Alumni of America and California Youth Connection. Also, Lynn Price founded ten nonprofit summer camps that helped bring together brothers and sisters who have been separated by the system. The idea was to keep connections and maintain their sibling relationship. It’s proven that children have more stable mental health if they are together with family members especially with siblings. The most important information about this article is to educate and promote the importance of siblings’ relationship. How This Child Welfare Problem helps in the Social Work field The information on this article will be useful in the social work field because a social worker will be working with children in this situation all the time. To be educated on this issue is very important to a social worker. As a social worker it’s important to know the importance in keeping families together. In the worse scenario where parents or family members cannot keep the children it’s important to try the best to keep siblings together. Social workers have to understand and be knowledge in how important it’s for children to