Alex Adams

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The Glenn Beck Program · Best of the Program | Guest: Alex Adams | 6/1/26 · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

So we're trying to get states to commit to increasing their ratio of homes to kids.

And there's certainly two ways to do that.

First is to recruit and retain better, higher quality foster families.

The most important way to do so is to shrink the number of kids coming into foster care in the first place.

As President Trump said, the best foster care system is one that is not needed.

And we're looking at...

to ensure that foster care is used as a tool of last resort when it is in the best interest of the child, when it is necessary to protect them.

But the first and foremost goal is to preserve families, keep families together when it is safe to do so.

Yeah, well, most states define neglect and abuse, and in cases of neglect and abuse, if a court makes a finding, the child can be removed from the family and enter into foster care.

I used to run a state child welfare system.

I'm from Idaho as well, so we're neighbors, Glenn.

One of the things that we started doing is we started building predictive analytics into the hotline.

So usually the first step in a child welfare case is a medical professional or a school personnel calls a hotline alleging neglect or abuse of a child.

That sends off an entire cascade of events.

That cascade of events can change the entire trajectory of a child's life and the family's life.

And it was very interesting to me how subjective that whole process felt.

So a couple of counties had experimented with predictive analytics where it brings additional data into the decision making.

It helps triage and it helps right size the response from the agency.

Idaho is the first state to go live using predictive analytics.

And based on that experience and others, my agency, the Administration for Children and Families, just announced competitive grants to allow up to 10 states to experiment with predictive analytics as well.

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