University of Louisville News
“Many of those kids were in foster care for much longer than they needed to be, because as an agency, we weren’t doing anything to reach out to the children’s fathers,” Dr. Perry said. “All the caseloads were in the mother’s names, and dads, if anything, were an afterthought.” He said once he understood it was just about “checking off a box” so the system could move forward, it was a gamechanger for him. “It was deeply impactful to me because it set the course of my professional life for the next 25 years.”