Inside the Child Welfare System with Dr. Anu Partap Part 1
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True Story Media. Hello, it's Andrea, and today we are sharing my conversation with foster care pediatrician Dr. Anu Partap. Dr. Partap has spent nearly three decades as a pediatrician and medical director inside large health systems, from 1998 until just last year when she went out on her own. Over the course of her career, she's launched more than a dozen clinics and programs across two states, all aimed at supporting families living with limited income, limited resources, or family violence. In Arizona, she launched the state's first domestic violence program for children, its first family learning center embedded in an outpatient clinic, and new models for screening families for domestic violence in healthcare settings.
In Texas, she helped build the largest integrated healthcare center for children in foster care, launching the first 24-7 crisis texting line focused on safety and basic needs, and expanding access to free pediatric care. On the policy front, Dr. Partap helped push through a Texas requirement that children entering foster care receive an early health care visit, a direct response to kids falling through the cracks and experiencing unsafe delays in treatment. She also helped introduce multidisciplinary case reviews so systems could catch near misses before they became something worse. That review process has unfortunately been discontinued, but the early visit requirement stands. We're so grateful to Dr. Partap for coming on and helping us deepen our understanding of these complex systems.
As always, if you have questions for us, feedback, or episode topics you'd like us to cover, we'd love to hear from you at hello at nobody should believe me.com. We'll be right back.
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Who is Dr. Anu Partap and what is a foster care pediatrician?
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Hi, so good to see you again. Yeah, it's good to see you again, too. Thank you so much for doing this with us. So to start with, you know, you and I met through the Helfer Society. And when I was chatting with you, I... I had never spoken to a foster care pediatrician before and was not aware that that existed as a subspecialty. And so I just immediately thought, oh, this would be such a wonderful perspective for so many of the things that we're talking about on the show, especially after season seven, where we really dug into a lot of these bigger, broader questions surrounding child welfare. And so we're so happy to have you with us. Can you start by just explaining who you are and what you do?
Oh, sure. And thank you for including foster care as a focus on your A podcast that reaches a lot of people, and so I'm excited to share lessons and insights from a personal perspective. So I'm a primary care pediatrician and have spent about half my time really focused on how do we support families who have limited income, who may be struggling with life situations like domestic violence or other hardships, and And from that, I, after a few years of being a general pediatrician and doing some systems work, became a full-time foster care pediatrician from 2009 to 2018, and then moved back into prevention and early intervention, and then got to do some more systems work. in the foster care space.
And in working with families who have lots of speed bumps ahead of them and roadblocks ahead of them, they still do so much for their children constantly, constantly. putting their kids first, somehow making things work. The whole like Ginger Rogers backwards and high heels like that. That's how I would describe the families I met. And then when I went into full-time foster care, it was in Texas and the North Texas area. I was sort of stunned at this whole world of foster care that I was not aware of until I was immersed in it.
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