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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

CO4Kids

The child welfare system for the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) oversees child welfare practices, policies and funding. Each of Colorados 64 counties implements child welfare practices and delivers direct services to children, youth and families in their counties. What should I do?

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Child care, family assistance outlined in 2025 California budget

CCRC

The $322 Billion budget introduces no cuts to core programs, and maintains initiatives to fully implement Universal Transitional Kindergarten, expand after school and summer school programs, and Universal school meals. Funding for the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program.

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Standard operating cruelty: When the family police steal more than Social Security checks

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Photo by Alan Levine When children are taken from their parents forever and those children are adopted by strangers, the parents often want to leave their children something to remember them by, perhaps a cherished keepsake or a family photo from happier times. What’s the difference between adoption and those other options?

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The Opioid Epidemic and Foster Care: The Opioid Epidemic’s Forgotten Victims

Relias

Department of Health and Human Services found that a 10% increase in opioid-related overdose deaths directly corresponded with a 4.4% Adoption, foster home recruitment, and reunification services The act provides 8 million dollars in competitive grants to support the recruitment and retention of highly qualified foster families.

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A Helpful Guide to KVC’s Mental Health and Child Welfare Services in Kansas and Missouri

KVC

Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services. Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Oct. 1, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To Vermont’s human services agency continued to send teens there — even after the incidents.

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Innovations in Behavioral Healthcare: A Digital Path to Resilience

Relias

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed the way behavioral health and other human services organizations conduct their operations. For behavioral health and other human services, this often means using technology to find new and better ways to help?persons?served. will likely have a few bumps along the way.