KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Also: You know all those stories claiming there was an increase in hospital admissions for abusive head trauma? Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. That wasn’t true either. ?

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Anyone who cares about child and family wellbeing is encouraged to attend! This includes donors, volunteers, advocates, partner organizations, kinship families, resource families including foster and adoptive parents, youth and adult clients, and KVC team members nationwide. Learn more about this special event!

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

For example, KVC and its supporters care for thousands of children in foster care , help hundreds of children either to be adopted or to safely reunify with their families , and provide life-changing treatment at its children’s mental health hospitals.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

The Washington State Standard reports that Washington State is easing a policy that had required hospitals to automatically turn in to the family police the parents of any newborn “affected” by the mother’s substance use. I have a blog post about it. ● Of course, not everyone is happy about this.

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All For Kids

JANUARY 5, 2025

Make holiday cards, birthday cards, and notes for assisted living facilities, patients in a local hospital, or meals on wheels. Read books to young kids at a library, family shelter, or childrens hospital. Make a holiday basket or Christmas care package for individuals in need. Kids in the hospital use lots of art supplies.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

Our new standards will ensure high-quality care and ongoing sustainability, and ensure providers behave responsibly. Labour will develop local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge. ” Labour’s children’s social care plans “Every child should have a loving, secure home.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

(And CWLA’s long-ago apology rings hollow – since they still support draconian policing laws such as the so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.) And see also this story from Searchlight New Mexico, which focuses on a Native American child adopted by a well-meaning white couple.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

Back to Blogs News & Press Colorado recognizes March as Brain Injury Awareness Month DENVER (March 3, 2025) More than 5,000 Coloradans are hospitalized with a brain injury each year and more than a half-million Coloradans are living with a brain injury. Brain injuries can impact anyone, said Russha Knauer, director of MINDSOURCE.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that article, Alexandra Travis writes about her own experience with family destruction and then asks: Tell me, if you knew our story, would you still advocate so fiercely for adoption and termination? One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Added Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We have forced millions into foster care 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?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

As CBC News reports, that suit calls the modern Canadian family policing system "the next round of cultural genocide and discrimination toward First Nations." ● Two big new studies, one in JAMA Open and one in Academic Pediatrics examine who gets drug tested in hospitals and who doesn’t. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from foster care. In Dayton, Ohio, a misdiagnosis of child abuse forced infants into foster care for nearly a year.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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 foster care on any given day -- is even worse. She said no.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Last month, two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. THE CITY reports on a fight in the New York City Council over whether ACS will continue to be able to run roughshod over families. ? Not one of those words came from a birth parent.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In a move that would have been unheard-of just a few years ago, New Jersey Spotlight News reports that the state Attorney General is suing a chain of hospitals to stop them from performing clandestine drug tests on pregnant women and then reporting the results to the family police. Some even are celebrated.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

The actual evidence of the inherent harm of foster care and the high rate of abuse in foster care is so overwhelming, that all they can do is try to distract us with horror stories. She was placed with foster parents who adopted her.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

Volunteer your time to organizations such as KVC Health Systems or Prevent Child Abuse, either through parenting support classes, drug abuse prevention and treatment programs or foster care support events. Educate yourself and others on how to prevent child abuse. Mentor a child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 14, 2024

And rather than face clandestine drug testing and suspicion from medical professionals who are mandatory reporters, pregnant people stay away from prenatal care and giving birth in hospitals. Mandatory reporting is where the racial bias that permeates family policing begins.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) Two months later he was dead.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune , which broke the story that is the subject of the Netflix documentary Take Care of Maya, reports on what the hospital accused of doing the child so much harm is up to now. Her adoptive parents, Isaac and Lehua Kalua, have been charged with murder. The discovery was somewhat selective.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

But no matter how much they try to hide it, it’s another trade association full of private foster care and “residential treatment” agencies. The actual amount of money states get through CAPTA is tiny – they would save more by defying its odious provisions, thereby reducing needless investigations and foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

During the final days of the Vietnam War, Americans grabbed hundreds of Vietnamese "orphans" and flew them out of their country for adoption in the United States. military hospital, she had gone to live with her cousin and his wife, this newlywed couple. But many of them were not orphans. After months in a U.S.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

On August 24, 2024, the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) proudly announced in a press statement that it had reduced the number of children in out-of-home care by nearly half since 2018. Specifically, the number of children in foster care had fallen from 9,171 in 2018 to 4,971 as of August 14, 2024.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

An adoptive mother is charged with murder, torture, and crimes straight out of a horror film nightmare. They were allegedly adopted to death. The starvation, torture, murder and other horrors all were allegedly orchestrated by Avantae Deven, the foster mother who adopted them. Thats an aberration. Have you noticed?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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 foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

There are currently 15 bills under consideration by a major House of Representatives subcommittee that could result in long-term, permanent telehealth solutions to make healthcare accessible from home for those who are not easily able to go to a doctor’s office or hospital.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in foster care. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. As is so common with Therolf’s stories, this implies that holding children in foster care is safe and only returning a child home can place a child “at risk.”

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2024

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, its also safer. The headline on the story is: White West Virginia couple accused of adopting Black children and forcing them to work as slaves.

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