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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 fostercare , DCF Commissioner Christine Norbut-Beyer told members of the state Senate’s Budget Appropriations Committee.
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 fostercare. 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.
Seventeen years after we first raised the issue, an ugly little practice that leads to hundreds of needless fostercare 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 fostercare.
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.,
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.
Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, under the Basic Center Program (BCP). Programs include emergency housing, transitional living, fostercare, home visiting and clinical support services. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Shelter, Inc. Shelter Inc. Learn more at www.shelter-inc.org.
Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog CDHS honors five Colorado families in celebration of National FosterCare Month Denver (May 1, 2025) In celebration of National FosterCare Month and to encourage more Coloradans to become foster parents, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) is honoring five foster families.
Kinship care is an arrangement in which children under 18 years of age who are unable to live with their parents are placed in the care of relatives, close family friends, or other people important in their lives instead of being placed in traditional fostercare or group homes. What should I do?
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.
These may include : Exposure to neighborhood violence Experiences of discrimination Substandard housing conditions Food insecurity Fostercare involvement Periodically re-administer the ACEs Questionnaire to capture any changes in the clients life and to ensure alignment with their evolving treatment needs.
In its kinship care strategy, the previous Conservative government announced it would pilot providing special guardians of former looked-after children with allowances equivalent to those received by foster carers, in eight areas from 2024-28, backed by £16m in 2024-25.
“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.
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.
Time is running out to submit comments to the Federal Register regarding Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments that representative payees receive for children and youth in fostercare. The money is used to reimburse states for the cost of fostercare, a practice restricted by federal law.
North Carolina, Connecticut, Texas and Michigan are almost as bad Think back for a moment to that time when the first Trump Administration was tearing thousands of children from the arms of their parents at the Mexican border. It’s commonly known as hidden fostercare. Listen again to their anguished cries. What can be done?
The Trump Administration launches a ludicrous "investigation" of a bad law. the Trump Administration, which, presumably, saw the publicity and a chance to pander to its conservative base. Laws requiring clergy to report the slightest suspicion of child abuse or neglect are common unfortunately. line on awards entries forms.)
Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.
A ProPublica story aptly calls whats happening now The Trump Administrations War on Children: The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so that babies dont die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired. Links to all of the research cited in this post can be found 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.
. ● The Imprint reports that, in its final days in office, the Biden Administration took a first step toward involving the federal government in curbing the insidious practice of states swiping foster youths’ Social Security benefits.
Throughout her years with the department, she went on to work with youth in residential facilities, families involved in child welfare, foster parents, and children and youth in fostercare before moving on to supervisory and administrative roles. It’s about education rather than punishment.
She even passed a background check to care for foster children in residential treatment. But her own children are still in fostercare. Knight: Her four-year-old daughter has been moved seven times since she was taken into fostercare in April 2022. Heres what that means in the case of Ms.
As the story explains: Grounded in interviews with families who experienced fostercare, the committee’s first report determined that the city often defines conditions of poverty as “neglect” and needlessly separates families, who then receive insufficient support. ● NCCPR was represented on the committee.)
ProPublica reports on The Trump Administrations War on Children." Massive studies documen t that its effects include prolonging fostercare and making it more likely that foster youth will age out with no home at all. The terror doesnt end with the fostercare. But thats what happening.
Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. Oregons governor wants to loosen regulations curing abuse in fostercare because they cant think of any other way to deal with a so-called shortage of placements.
● It’s always a good time to hear from Jerry Milner, who ran the federal Children’s Bureau during the first Trump Administration. The child died in fostercare We’ll never know if those federal funds might have made a difference I have a blog post about it. ● But it’s an especially good time now.
In other news: ● As you read this New York Times story about children still traumatized years after they were torn from their parents at the Mexican border during the Trump Administration, please remember: When children are torn from their parents by U.S. family police agencies, their motives may be different, but the trauma is the same. ●
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.”
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 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.
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.
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.
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