Name: Macy Putka

Social Justice Group: Child Welfare, Foster Care and Adoption

Date of Fieldwork: January 21, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s): My Social Justice Group

Type of Fieldwork: SJ Presentation

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

Yesterday I presented with my Social Justice group about our topic. We deeply researched the basics and some of the foundations of the child welfare systems in New York. We found some really interesting facts and statistics about the number of children in foster care or even involved welfare systems. Something that I found interesting was that some adoption agencies and foster programs still don’t want same-sex couples taking care of kids. I am excited to dive deeper into this as well as learning more are how covid impacted the welfare system, the flaws in the foster care system, and many more. Our group worked really well together and I thought that the presentation went really smoothly.