Rebecca Jones Gaston

Jan 6, 2025 | city-journal.org | Rebecca Jones Gaston |Naomi Riley

“The hope and intention is that we’re creating some equity around how we’re supporting family members caring for children that are in foster care.” That’s how Rebecca Jones Gaston, commissioner for the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), described one of her agency’s new rules to Timein 2023.

Nov 22, 2023 | time.com | Belinda Luscombe |Rebecca Jones Gaston

November 22, 2023 7:00 AM ESTOn a Friday afternoon in 2005, at about 3 p.m., Mickey Mauck, then 55, got a call from a child-protective-services agent informing her that her granddaughter had been taken into care, and asking if she could come pick her up. Mauck told her boss that she needed to leave, and drove 23 miles across Denver (in traffic) to fetch Briana, then 18 months old. “She had a diaper and one sock,” says Mauck. “And that's it.