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As foster care removals plummet, where’s the promised help for families?

Child Welfare Monitor

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

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Torn Apart: How the Abolition Movement Destroys Foster Youth – And How Listening To Us Can Build A Safer World

Child Welfare Monitor

Her intersectionality and affiliation with marginalized identities such as being an undocumented Salvadoran female, LGBTQ+, foster youth, homeless, and cycling in and out of juvenile jails, have shaped the way she sees social issues. She spent half of her life in foster care, struggling with substance abuse.

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Psychological Effects of Being Adopted on Child Development

All For Kids

Adoption is a remarkable journey that can bring immense joy and fulfillment to both the child and the adoptive family. However, it’s important to acknowledge that it can also present unique challenges and complexities through the psychological effects of adoption.

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When it comes to the problems plaguing “child welfare” wrongful removal drives everything else – including caseworker turnover. Case in point: Massachusetts

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in foster care. According to the story, Toscano’s husband was also cited for substance abuse, according to DCF records she shared with the Globe. Then the cycle can be broken.

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How the journalism of child welfare fails

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. Parents who lose their children to foster care, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? Records that have to be “admitted” into the database [but may not have been] include substance abuse records, visitation records and medical records. Or haven’t been reunited with them? to tell young people about it. ●

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family.