DCF on the Air

Secure housing impacts everyone and we will be talking to KerryAnne Henry, Director of the DCF Office of Housing and a representative from the Department of Community Affairs to talk about available housing support programs such as Voucher Programs, KFT, and other supports like LIHEAP that help families in need.

We'll be talking to DCP&P Deputy Director Clinton Page about reunification -- how DCF is honoring its commitment to support reunification as the primary goal in family separations, how kinship caregivers can help support that goal, and avenues for post-reunification support and connecting bio parents to the prevention continuum in NJ.

In this episode of DCF on the Air, we welcome DCF First Deputy Commissioner Katherine Stoehr to discuss child maltreatment prevention efforts in New Jersey and the federal Family First Prevention Services Act which prioritizes proactive, innovative, in-community prevention services in child welfare jurisdictions throughout the nation.

In this episode, we hear from Mollie Greene, DCF Assistant Commissioner for the Children's System of Care (CSOC), the public behavioral and emotional health system for anyone under the age of 21, regarding work to provide deep-end therapeutic support to children and their families in their homes and in the community during a historic youth mental health crisis happening nationally.

In this episode, we're talking with Dr. Rebecca Bryan, Executive Director of the DCF Office of Resilience, around the groundbreaking work happening through her office around Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences (PACEs), and what they can mean for the lifelong health and social connections of individuals who experience both.

In this episode of DCF on the Air, we’re talking with Sanford Starr, DCF Assistant Commissioner for Family and Community Partnerships, about a new mental wellness initiative coming to NJ’s schools and communities, the NJ Statewide Student Support Services (NJ4S) network.

In our first episode of the DCF on the Air podcast, we will be talking with NJ DCF Commissioner Christine Norbut Beyer about her vision for the Department's work -- ensuring that all New Jersey residents are safe, healthy and connected.

Host Jason Butkowski offers a brief introduction to DCF on the Air, the new podcast from the New Jersey Department of Children and Families to share the story of the department's efforts to revolutionize child welfare in the Garden State.