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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. So they give these personal effects to the family police agency to pass on to the children. He was institutionalized. He ran away, and he died. Unfortunately, you can guess what happened next.

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Child Welfare Update: February 2024

Child Welfare Monitor

We soon learned that the little girl, who was blind in one eye, had first been removed from Sorey at the age of two months by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) due to Sorey’s substance abuse. Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, was in jail at the time.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long (2024 Edition)

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Seven years later it was exposed as rife with so much abuse that Illinois took all foster youth out of the place. In 2019, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services touted the brand-new Aunt Marthas Integrated Care Center as a national model. Just five years later, amid a sexual abuse scandal, it was shut down.