CO4Kids

MAY 1, 2025

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog CDHS honors five Colorado families in celebration of National Foster Care Month Denver (May 1, 2025) In celebration of National Foster Care Month and to encourage more Coloradans to become foster parents, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) is honoring five foster families.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog NTDC (National Training and Development) Statewide Train-the-Trainer Training The NTDC (National Training and Development Curriculum) continues to be the preferred curriculum for certifying foster/adoptive parents in Colorado.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 1, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Colorado Juvenile Parole Board (JPB) Seeking Applications to Fill One Public At-Large Seat The JPB is a nine-member, Type 1 transfer board, supported by staff housed in the Office of Children, Youth, and Families (OCYF) within the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS).

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

This gathering, which drew child welfare administrators and practitioners from across the nation, was a crucial platform for discussing the opportunities and challenges presented by the new, flexible licensing standards issued by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in September 2023. million views.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

has achieved national accreditation through COA Accreditation, a service of Social Current. is a child welfare agency that works to end the cycle of child abuse and neglect through comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Shelter, Inc. Shelter, Inc. Shelter, Inc.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a final rule regarding licensing and approval standards for kinship placements. Title IV-E agencies are tribes and state agencies that utilize Title IV-E funds to provide foster care service. What does This Mean for Child Welfare Social Workers?

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Back to Blogs Community Blog Meet the Morgan County DHS Team: 100+ Years of Dedication and Expertise Morgan County Department of Human Services has a wealth of knowledge and experience in their Department of Human Services (DHS) staff. She has been the ongoing manager since 2016. The staff here are really wonderful.

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CO4Kids

JANUARY 13, 2025

Back to Blogs Community Blog January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Hosted by Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking and Violence Free Colorado.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The reports were careful, nuanced assessments – far better than what’s spewed forth from certain politicians, and the state’s child welfare “ombudsman.” Those last 11 paragraphs are an indirect reminder of how, in less than 25 years, Maine child welfare went from national scandal to national model to national disgrace.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2018 The State Assembly holds a hearing Oct. The structural problem In most states, the family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) is a state agency. Source: U.S. Nine states are fully local.

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CO4Kids

JANUARY 31, 2025

This rule change will clarify actions required by county child welfare staff and enhance Colorados Child Welfare response to the unregulated custody transfer of children and youth. The purpose of the rule work is to align Colorado’s rule and practice with the requirements of Colorado House Bill 23-1157.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But, as so often happens, because family policing agencies prey on the poor, it also became an account of how the so-called child welfare system makes everything worse. Now it’s a book: Invisible Child, published today by Random House. It is a must-read for anyone concerned about race, poverty, and child welfare.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

This request for information comes from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Administration on Children and Family (ACF) to inform internal policy decisions. In the landmark 2002 case of Washington State Department of Health and Human Services v.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 7, 2024

The annual Child Maltreatment reports, produced by the Children’s Bureau of the U.S. Administration for Children and Families, are based on data that states submit to the National Child Abuse and Neglect (NCANDS) data system. Multiple data sources may not be used to identify possible maltreatment deaths.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. But there are few consequences for wrongly removing children from their homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. In this video , one of Britains foremost child welfare scholars, Prof. Its not just the United States.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

is not the right pick to become the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. NASW remains unwavering in its commitment to advocating for policies that safeguard and elevate the social work profession, bolster public health, and ensure equitable access to vital services for all communities. Kennedy Jr.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His administration used it as a justification for not returning children his administration took at the Mexican border. We don’t know why, but we do know this: An evaluation from the Oregon Department of Human Services, described the child as “white – no cultural issues.” A mong the many who done it: Donald Trump.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.

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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The family had been on the radar of the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) since 2019, before Jahmeik was born. Lives Cut Short surveyed state laws and policies governing access to information about child maltreatment fatalities and near fatalities.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Also harmful, they wrote, is the ongoing disproportionate removal of Native children from their parents through the countrys child welfare systems. Though not mentioned in the story, the lead agency spearheading the Indian Adoption Project, from 1958 to 1967, was the Child Welfare League of America.

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