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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.
This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in fostercare with no compromise of safety. Cara, who asked to keep her last name private, said she had already been in touch with a domesticviolence organization about her ex.
Amias, now six, was adopted in 2022 making them a family of five including their biological children, Piper 15 and Raylan 12. “He Jessica and Marty continue to provide temporary fostercare for children in need in their community. Adopting him started a whole journey of us being foster parents too.
Of course, most non-native foster parents who adopt native children are not accused of abusing them. Video is now available of the Family Integrity and Justice Works event documenting the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act: ? But Karin Brulliard of The Washington Post proved me wrong. ?
It was followed by a systematic campaign of forced adoption into white homes, spearheaded by, among others, the Child Welfare League of America. Foster-care panic is like a fire. The attempt to use family policing to destroy Native American culture didn’t end with the horrible institutions known as “boarding schools.”
According to CR: DCS has dramatically reduced its historical over-reliance on non-family institutional placements … The percentage of Tennessee children in fostercare placed with families has risen and has been maintained at approximately 88 percent. So it’s no wonder CR’s claims of success don’t always hold up well. Not anymore.
Kelley Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease fostercare caseloads and refer families to community supports.
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.
We have forced millions into fostercare where the rate of abuse is, in fact, vastly higher than in the general population and, independent studies show , vastly higher than agencies admit in official figures. And did it make children safer? That failure should surprise no one. So, how did that work out?
The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in fostercare. This fall, DCF shifted her children’s goal from reunification to adoption, she said. But it also offers a clue concerning why the caseloads are so high. Then the cycle can be broken.
Remember, family police agencies are supposed to conduct intensive searches to find relatives to care for these children. When the agency sought to persuade the foster parents to adopt, here’s what the foster father says he was told: “Family will come out of the woodwork when we do this. But] We’ll handle them for you.”
So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in fostercare on any given day -- is even worse. She said no.
The actual evidence of the inherent harm of fostercare and the high rate of abuse in fostercare is so overwhelming, that all they can do is try to distract us with horror stories. The mother says Arabella was taken because she’s witnessed domesticviolence, a tragically common reason for wrongful removal.
The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? The company that makes and sells the particular predictive analytics software that, as the column above documents, failed disastrously, also used to be in charge of fostercare in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas County, Florida.
Among those who suffer most: Children of domesticviolence victims. Terrified that their children will be taken under laws labeling them bad parents for “allowing” their children to see them being beaten, a national survey found that domesticviolence survivors fear seeking help – often for good reason.
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The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. And they commissioned a poll from Gallup , which appears to have been geared toward encouraging more Black families to foster and adopt. But there is.
Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. The Western New England Law Review has a superb summary of the research showing the enormous harm to children caused when they are taken from domesticviolence survivors. The article interweaves compelling case examples and a mass of research.
In San Diego, Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother not because she abused them, but because they witnessed domesticviolence. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. Arabella’s mother is suing – and still fighting for the return of Arabella’s sisters, who remain in fostercare. ●
? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.
We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than fostercare or massive surveillance, it’s also safer. That may help explain how a tragedy like this death in fostercare could occur. ● In this blog post, I suggest a better idea.
At almost three years old, and after two straight years in fostercare with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. Harmony was returned to her mother at seven months, and removed again at ten months.
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.
WXYZ-TV in Detroit has a story about relatives who took in a one-year-old child as a kinship fostercare placement, only to have the child taken with them to be placed – forever – with strangers. The story asks: Under the law in Michigan, family members have priority to adopt their relatives. Illinois used to be different.
was born) for issues including use of heroin, marijuana and alcohol in the home; lack of supervision of the children; domesticviolence; an unsafe caregiver living with the family; an unsafe and unclean living environment unsecured guns in the home out-of-control behaviors by B.B.s How did DCYF reduce fostercare by nearly 50 percent?
Back to Blogs News & Press Celebrating Four Colorado Adoptive Families November is National Adoption Month DENVER (Nov. 4, 2024) — In honor of National Adoption Month, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) is spotlighting four incredible families who adopted seven Colorado children and youth from foster or kinship care.
In Phoenix Arizona, 20% of all Black children will be torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of fostercare. Then I know [no one] will ever be able to put us in a foster home again. That’s best case – it doesn’t even begin to account for the high rate of abuse in fostercare itself.
Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease fostercare caseloads and refer families to community supports.
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