Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

Ripley previously founded Sequel Youth and Family Services, which became known for the death of 16-year-old Cornelius Frederick while being restrained at a Michigan facility in 2020 and allegations of abuse and neglect at other Sequel facilities. ” Stories like this have been appearing from around the country for years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

. ● Publisher’s Weekly interviewed Roxanna Asgarian about her forthcoming book, We Were Once a Family , the story of “how flaws in the child welfare system contributed to the 2018 murder-suicide of six children by their adoptive parents.” Mom was late picking her up from school. Good thing they don’t have anything else to do.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In addition, no child should be removed from a safe, loving caregiver to access mental or behavioral health services. At KVC, we are accountable for how well we care for children and families. The federal Child and Family Services Review looks at each state’s foster care performance against national standards.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. But Alberi seems to want OCFS to adopt a policy that boils down to: Please pass the salt. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable. But removing children for that reason can be even worse.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

On July 13, 2021, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors passed a motion requiring the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) to pilot the blind removal concept. In Compton-Carson, the final decision was made in the blind removal meeting between the social worker, supervisor and case reviewer.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

At almost three years old, and after two straight years in foster care 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Yet Therolf and Hamilton present it not just as a solution to the problems plaguing the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but the only viable solution. It was tried first in criminal justice – and proven to be racially biased. Watch out for those bad apples Notice the “few bad apples”-type framing here.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Here are the services we are providing at each of our locations to further this mission: KVC Kansas KVC Kansas helps over 12,000 children and their families each year. KVC Kentucky KVC Kentucky has been a forerunner in mental and behavioral health, substance use treatment and child welfare services for families in crisis for 25 years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Or will they uphold their commitments to child safety through family preservation? -- Based on her extensive research Prof. Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws.

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