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She spent half of her life in fostercare, struggling with substance abuse. in Administration of Justice from Pierce College, a B.A. Youth with lived experiences in fostercare face countless challenges, even when the abuse finally stops – one way or another. They argue that fostercare is not the answer.
Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in fostercare, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. “We
But he also explains how the Florida Legislature, the current administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the administration of former Governor Rick Scott skewed financial incentives for the “CBCs” toward holding more children in fostercare and against trying to keep families together.
So the public was primed to scapegoat family preservation when Nixzmary Brown died in January, 2006 – leading to a foster-care panic , a sharp sudden increase in the number of children torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of fostercare. The panic was welcomed by the Times.
Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into fostercare.” There is something strange about this example.
The result: A dramatic reduction in needless family surveillance and fostercare with no compromise in safety. There’s a similar pattern when it comes to children forced into fostercare. of foster children sent home returned to fostercare. In 2019 it happened in 58,217 cases. In 2023 8.5%
According to Virginia Public Media : Avula noted Virginia’s rate of placement with relatives is less than half of the national average — a statistic he said is skewed by the fact that local social services departments in the state prioritize informal placements with relatives before sending a child into the fostercare system.
And again, Black children are hit hardest, taken into fostercare at a rate 50% above their rate in the Indiana child population. In Indiana in 2022, 85% of the time , when children were thrown into fostercare their parents were not even accused of physical or sexual abuse. The harm isn’t just emotional.
Khadijah Abdurahman, who is both a parent with lived experience dealing with New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services – and a Tech Research Fellow at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. I have a blog post about her powerful story in Logic Magazine.
Today: Context for the new study: The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? What all of this usually does is set off a foster-care panic , a sharp sudden surge in removals of children.
The article aptly describes the Center as a first-of-its-kind organization that intends to engage in affirmative litigation with the [Administration for Children’s Services] —hitting it with lawsuits to potentially hold it accountable for allegedly violating families’ constitutional rights via heavy-handed investigatory and removal tactics.
Whether it’s housing subsidies, child care assistance, or cash aid, there appears to be the same positive effect — reducing CPS reports. Unfortunately, the federal Administration for Children and Families hasn’t quite gotten the message. There are horrifying details about the sexual assault of two young teenagers in Texas fostercare.
As the parent organization, KVC Health Systems does not provide direct services to children and families; rather it provides administrative support to its local subsidiaries or business units. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. Many people associate KVC Kansas with fostercare.
Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.
In New York, it’s illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into fostercare just because they “witnessed domestic violence” – typically a husband or boyfriend beating the child’s mother. New York’s family police agency is still harassing survivors of domestic violence and their children.
Nearly 15% of Native American children, nearly 15% of Hispanic children and nearly 20% of Black children will be placed in fostercare, according to the study. In fact, Arizona has been in foster-care panic mode for most of the past 20 years – a national record. times higher than the rate in New York City.
“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.
It’s all in a report commissioned by the Administration for Children’s Services itself. Yesterday: Context for the new study : The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? ACS’ response: Don’t release the report!
● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in fostercare. This story from The Press-Enterprise in Riverside describes a case in California in which that happened – and then the children faced horrific abuse in a foster home overseen by a private agency. ●
In New York, one leader of ACS during the administration of former Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gladys Carrion, understood that. But in the de Blasio Administration the first responsibility of any commissioner was to protect de Blasio. But Carrion misunderstood her job. She thought her first responsibility was to protect children.
But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in fostercare. Legal experts say it is particularly rare for groups of parents, such as those in the Gould case, to seek systemic changes to the investigation and surveillance process, asserting their rights before a fostercare removal.
And the listing increases the odds that, even if the children weren’t thrown into fostercare this time, it will happen if the family is reported again – because the listing raises suspicions, whether it’s the guess of a human caseworker or a computer algorithm raising a family’s “risk score.”
Hey, remember when New York City schools and the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, promised that this year they wouldn’t traumatize children and families by sending caseworkers to investigate them on “educational neglect” charges just because they felt it was still unsafe to send them to in-person classes?
The study found that when COVID-19 forced the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, to step back and community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up, the trauma of needless investigation and fostercare was significantly reduced, with no compromise of safety.
The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in fostercare. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.
The premise is that because of the “shortage,” children can’t see their parents while in fostercare, and families don’t get the guidance they need to jump through all the hoops they must surmount to prove themselves worthy of getting their children back. It’s not like the state can’t afford to step in and provide this money.
Two states are moving to curb the practice of forcing parents to pay ransom to get their children back from fostercare. The Imprint also has a look back at all that fearmongering about a supposed “pandemic of child abuse” – and what the research actually tells us. ? They don’t call it that, of course, they call it “child support.”
Alan Dettlaff, was invited by the Child Welfare League of America, a trade association whose members include agencies paid for each day they hold children in fostercare, to write the forward for an issue of one of their journals. . ● A founder of the upEND Movement, Prof. Then CWLA refused to publish it. You can read it here.
In 2011, Joette Katz stepped off the Connecticut Supreme Court to take a far more difficult job: running the state Department of Children and Families, Connecticuts equivalent of the New York City Administration for Childrens Services. Within months, the death of a child known-to-the-system made headlines.
It was during the Clinton Administration when then President Bill Clinton declared November National Adoption Month. Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted from FosterCare. Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship FosterCare . On November 23, the month’s event culminates with National Adoption Day.
New York City Administration for Children's Services Commissioner Jess Dannhauser Poor Jess Dannhauser. If a call about a New York City child is accepted by the state, the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is required by state law to respond to allegations and assess the safety of the child.
With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. Now, more children will get the opportunity to live with relatives.
● Want to see how easy it is for the fostercare system to become the ultimate middle-class entitlement – step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own? One of the victims in the case endured sexual abuse that led to a 30-year prison sentence for a former foster father in 2017.
New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, desperately wants to keep it that way. Last month, two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about fostercare in West Virginia. Khadijah Abdurahman In other news: ? Not one of those words came from a birth parent.
Font and Putnam-Hornstein have been brought in by that other bastion of the child welfare establishment, Chapin Hall, to advise them on a study that amounts to a whitewash of abuse in fostercare. As for taking away children, Putnam-Hornstein has said "it is possible we don’t place enough children in fostercare or early enough.”
The New York City Administration for Children's Services Uses Highly Coercive Tactics to Illegally Search Tens of Thousands of Families’ Homes Every Year. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.
The federal suit was aimed at New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), but for complex legal reasons the issue also wound up before the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, which extended its potential impact statewide. (NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.)
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 fostercare. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.
So, what did the Herald write when something remarkably similar happened in fostercare? There are children languishing in fostercare, going from home to home and sleeping in CPS offices — when they have a willing, able parent to take care of them." ? Nothing, of course.
That would make everything ten times worse for the children by subjecting them to traumatic investigations and stripsearches and possibly consigning them to the chaos of fostercare. It was how the Reagan Administration explained away the explosion in homelessness that followed draconian cuts to social programs.
The lawsuit says that investigators for the Administration for Children’s Services deceive and bully their way into people’s homes, where they rifle through families’ most private spaces, strip-search children and humiliate parents. So they used a blackmail placement – aka hidden fostercare. States call it “child support.”
Children are staying longer in the care system due to inequalities in payments to kinship carers, a report has found. However, there was a far smaller rise in the number of children leaving kinship fostercare for an SGO over this time, with this figure rising by 10%, from 2,270 to 2,500 over this time.
It’s practically the slogan of everyone in the family policing establishment, from the federal government’s Administration for Children and Families to the smallest county family police agency. She complains about kinship fostercare in part because relatives “live on the economic margins” [p.157] Safety, permanency, well-being.”
Two years ago, New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, commissioned a study of racism in the agency. For one, their kids were placed with relatives after a brief stint in fostercare, allowing them to regularly see Clarence and Cal. ACS’ response: Don’t release the report!
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