CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Caseworkers can help families make a communication plan. Kinship care is an arrangement in which children and youth who are unable to live with their biological parents are placed in the care of relatives, close family friends, or other people important in their lives instead of being placed in traditional foster care or group homes.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 14, 2024

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Back to School Tips for Students in Out-of-Home Care School’s back in session and the transition can be tough for students in out-of-home care, caregivers and others that support them. Communicate. Students in foster care have the right to remain in their school of origin.

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CO4Kids

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Back to Blogs News & Press New law helps relatives and family friends care for kids, providing an alternative to placement in foster care DENVER (September 23, 2024) – The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) celebrates a new state law that provides more resources for kinship caregivers of children in child welfare cases.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

KVC’s shared services teams are Accounting, Ball Conference Center , Business Information Technology , Employee Engagement, Fund Development, Human Resources, the KVC Institute , Legal, and Marketing & Communications. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. KVC Kansas.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 3, 2025

Shelter is the only agency in Illinois to provide comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Programs include emergency housing, transitional living, foster care, home visiting, and clinical support services.

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CO4Kids

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Back to Blogs Community Blog Adams County Celebrates Kinship Care Month This Kinship Care Month Adams County is recognizing an outstanding kinship caregiver, caseworker and community partner for all they do to support youth in foster care and kinship caregivers.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

Renny Arensberg, Executive Vice President of Employee Engagement, has led this initiative by partnering with a team of internal Engagement Champions as well as a broad KVC Experience Team consisting of the leaders of Human Resources; Marketing & Communications; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + Belonging; and Clinical Best Practices.

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KVC

JUNE 23, 2021

Foster parents can especially be a welcome source of encouragement and reassurance to birth parents and can act as their parenting partners while their children are in foster care. Click here to learn more about becoming a foster parent. Safe family reunification is the number one goal of foster care.

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

For some children, foster care, residential care or care by someone within their extended network is considered necessary for their immediate or longer-term safety. An alternative to foster care Fostering Families is an alternative to foster care and draws upon ideas presented by Crittenden and Farnfield (2007).

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

KVC case managers Victoria Clark, Dalton Shump, and Micah McEwan all work for the Olathe, Kansas office, where they coordinate and support the day-to-day needs of children and teens in foster care and their families. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system. Dalton Shump.

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

An outside source, like an adoption counselor, can help you better grasp all that goes into the adoption process, and can teach you about the benefits of foster care, becoming a foster parent, and adoption. In addition, the cost of foster care adoption is typically significantly lower in this type of system.

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Children’s Home Society of Washington

MARCH 20, 2023

Given her passion for supporting children and families and her knowledge of CHSW from personal experience, Kris began her 21+ year career with the organization in 2002, working as a direct service staff member in the Therapeutic Foster Care Program. Kris is a long-time resident in the Wenatchee, Wash.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Better relationships with children’s social workers is a key factor in tackling a foster carer recruitment and retention “crisis”, says The Fostering Network. That was among the findings from its latest State of the Nation’s Foster Care report, this year based on a survey of 3,352 carers and 99 fostering services.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support. Mediator : They facilitate communication and resolve conflicts between individuals or within families to promote healthy relationships. What skills does a social worker need?

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Community Care

MAY 5, 2022

Carers felt they were assumed to be guilty, undervalued and ostracised from the team around the child, said the charity, in a report analysing findings from its 2021 State of the Nation Foster Care. In the instances where the children in foster care were removed, 78% of the allegations were deemed unfounded or unsubstantiated.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

I had taken the training several times in the past–first for my work as a social worker with CFSA and later as a mentor to a foster youth. I had my first experience with the updated training last month as part of my preparation to serve as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a child in foster care.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Attitudes, it seems, have changed little since I was brought up in “care” in Scotland (Falkirk) and England (Northampton) in the 1960s and 1970s. It was not just in children’s homes, foster care and the church, but also in the wider community. Sexual abuse and violence at the hands of adults (men and women) was rife.

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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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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

Such policies are disseminated to mandatory reporters through training and agency communications. But with a drastic drop in foster care placements in Texas, there is reason to fear that maltreatment fatalities increased rather than decreased. And the number of child maltreatment fatalities fell from 182 to 164.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They parked her in foster care while waiting to institutionalize her. From The Columbian: A Kelso man formerly employed as a Child Protective Services case worker is facing charges of third-degree child molestation and communication with a minor for immoral purposes after he allegedly sexually abused a child under his care.

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All For Kids

MARCH 28, 2024

Emotional Support: Whether through open communication with birth parents or the unwavering love of adoptive families, children find emotional support and affirmation, laying the foundation for healthy relationships and self-esteem.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Photo: Daniel/AdobeStock Improve and encourage media coverage of events such as Foster Care Fortnight, ideally co-ordinated across the country. Ensure a steady supply of press releases to local newspapers; also use social media to communicate successes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ProPublica reports that The new rules would also restrict states from spending TANF funds on child protective services investigations, foster care or any other programs that don’t meet the fundamental purposes of welfare: strengthening poor families and keeping them together. Sarah Font. But she did not see her mother. she wondered.

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CO4Kids

JANUARY 17, 2025

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Cobbled Streets Offers Transformative Experiences to Kids in Foster Care Shari Shink, founder and executive director of Cobbled Streets, is like a fairy godmother to kids in foster and kinship care. Cobbled Streets provided individualized and group activities to 3,192 kids in 2024.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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, it’s also safer. That may help explain how a tragedy like this death in foster care could occur. ● In this blog post, I suggest a better idea.

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Community Care

APRIL 8, 2025

The government has committed 25m to boosting foster care recruitment and support in England from 2026-28. The money was announced in the government’s spring statement last month , when the Treasury said it would be used to recruit a further 400 fostering households.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Jody and Kevin continue to foster and currently have three children in foster care in their home, in addition to the seven children they have already adopted. They have also helped youth who are transitioning out of foster care move into their own apartments.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 7, 2025

or about joining its Board of Directors, please contact Christine Roerig, PCM, Director, Marketing and Communications, 847-595-0131 or croerig@shelter-inc.org. founded in 1975, is a leader in Chicagoland for providing emotional and physical care, programs, and services that children need to build safer, healthier, and brighter futures.

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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 17, 2025

A shockingly high proportion of those investigations lead to foster care. Among other things, they want to let those nice white, middle-class foster parents go to court on their own and try to take you and keep you forever or at least as long as they feel like it. She was taken from her parents only to die in foster care.

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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. From KABC-TV, Los Angeles : A story about a civil lawsuit filed by victims of horrific abuse both in their own home and then in foster care.

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