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Sarah Font

Sarah Font is a professor and researcher at the Washington University in St. Louis' Brown School of Social Work

Poverty, Neglect and the Weak Case for More Cash Assistance

2/16/2026

How ‘Harm Reduction’ Fails Families

Strategies to reduce harm to adults who use drugs might not safeguard children who may be endangered by parental substance use.

Poverty, Neglect and the Weak Case for More Cash Assistance

11/10/2025

The Odd Bipartisan Effort to Oversell the Evidence for Home Visiting

It would be hard to find a more popular strategy for supporting at-risk parents than home visiting — a series of voluntary (in-home) sessions with the family that focus on parenting, child development and other family-identified goals.

Poverty, Neglect and the Weak Case for More Cash Assistance

7/7/2025

Poverty, Neglect and the Weak Case for Expanding Cash Assistance

Opinion: Overstating what we know in child welfare about poverty and cash assistance — and obscuring what we don't — serves no one.

Poverty, Neglect and the Weak Case for More Cash Assistance

10/7/2024

Why is National Child Welfare Leadership Silent on Child Deaths? 

Among child welfare scholars, advocates and national leaders, a strong resistance to discussing child maltreatment fatalities prevails.