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The rejection of child protection

Child Welfare Monitor

The anticipated reduction of more than $100 million would force the department to revert to its most basic role that of child protection not prevention, not support or empowerment, just surveillance and foster care , DCF Commissioner Christine Norbut-Beyer told members of the state Senate’s Budget Appropriations Committee.

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Landmark Studies Reveal Direct Cash Grants Boost Employment, Improve Well-being, Stability for NYC Youth Exiting Foster Care, Without Negative Consequences

Children’s Defense Fund

In the summer of 2023, YouthNPower: Transforming Care launched the first direct cash transfer pilot in the United States designed by and for young people who had aged out of foster care. Over the next year, 100 youth aged 18-22 in New York City received $1,000 per month in unconditional direct cash payments for 12 months.

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How the Kansas “child welfare” agency makes hundreds of foster children “disappear.”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Seventeen years after we first raised the issue, an ugly little practice that leads to hundreds of needless foster care placements in Kansas every year finally is getting some attention though far from all of the attention it deserves. Its a special Kansas twist on the ugly practice of hidden foster care.

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Challenging Handmaid’s Tale jurisprudence in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But New York Citys family police agency, the Administration for Childrens Services, charged her with neglect. gave birth, the newborn tested positive for methadone which had been prescribed to Ms. to control her addiction. The agency didnt stop there. They also charged the father, known in court papers as Mr. B.,

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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

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 foster care.” There is something strange about this example.

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Harbour Partnership

Shelter, Inc

Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, under the Basic Center Program (BCP). Programs include emergency housing, transitional living, foster care, home visiting and clinical support services. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Shelter, Inc. Shelter Inc. Learn more at www.shelter-inc.org.

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CDHS honors five Colorado families in celebration of National Foster Care Month

CO4Kids

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.