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Child Welfare Monitor
DECEMBER 9, 2024
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 25, 2024
Photo by Alan Levine When children are taken from their parents forever and those children are adopted by strangers, the parents often want to leave their children something to remember them by, perhaps a cherished keepsake or a family photo from happier times. That’s permanence of, by, and for, the white middle class circa 1955. But as Prof.
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Child Welfare Monitor
APRIL 17, 2024
Christina has been a licensed foster parent in the state of Washington for six years and has adopted one child from the foster care system. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years. by Christina Faucett I am honored to publish this essay from Christina Faucett.
KVC
MAY 19, 2023
Nevertheless, I Persisted: Robin’s Inspiring Success Story When Robin was just three years old, her mother’s substance use led to her and her siblings being placed in foster care for their safety. She was adopted, but the family was not able to stay together. This began a long and difficult road for Robin.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 23, 2023
This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. I know that the advocacy community conflates neglect with poverty," Mossaides said. Enter the Fearmonger-in-Chief Mass. Then it was back to the fearmongering.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Remember the children who were torn from their parents and thrown into foster care because the parents committed the crime of Driving While Black? In the Virginia Mercury , Valerie L’Herrou, deputy director of the Center for Family Advocacy, urges support for legislation that would bolster the quality of family defense in that state.
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