Children’s Defense Fund

MARCH 25, 2025

Implement a waiver for continuous Medicaid coverage for children ages 0-3, with potential expansion to age 6. Expand Medicaid/Childrens Health Insurance Program eligibility to 300% of the federal poverty line. Provide full tuition and cost coverage at Ohio universities and colleges to students who have experienced foster care.

Adoption 59

Adoption Medicaid Foster Care University 59

Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. “We

Foster Care 130

Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Substance Abuse 130

KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. What’s behind this national foster care placement crisis? But this isn’t what foster care is for. Let’s rewind.

Foster Care 59

Foster Care Child Welfare Mental Health Welfare 59

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Expand Medicaid: Less “neglect.” Or, as bad or worse, it might go to an outfit like Chapin Hall (see the item below about whitewashing abuse in foster care). There are horrifying details about the sexual assault of two young teenagers in Texas foster care. . Increase SNAP benefits: Less “neglect.”

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Child Welfare Medicaid Administration 98

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.

Foster Care 155

Foster Care Interventional Child Welfare Medicaid 155

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

If this all weren’t so dangerous the answer would be laugh-out-loud funny: They know it works, they say, not because the algorithm was good at predicting actual child abuse, but because, in many cases, it was good at predicting whether a child would wind up in foster care! And sure enough, the developers say, it works!

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Self-harm 98

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.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Medicaid 98