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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

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Concerned individuals should consult an experienced and trusted immigration law attorney about your situation to verify that what you are doing will be honored by authorities in your state. The child welfare system for the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) oversees child welfare practices, policies and funding.

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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. KVC is a great place to work!

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

KVC

These services strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. and best practice training and consultation that stretches around the world, KVC’s presence in its home region of Kansas and Missouri has expanded. KVC Kansas. Learn more here.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending May 3, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

So, of course, leave it to the governor and his human services leadership team to propose doubling down on their failed approach. But it was Massachusetts’ fanaticism about tearing apart families that made that tragedy more likely in the first place.

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A fundamental conflict: addressing implicit bias in mandatory reporter training

Child Welfare Monitor

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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In Iowa, one more family finds out what it’s like to be on the wrong end of family policing

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

For the Donlins, their nightmare at the hands of the family police, known in Iowa as the Department of Human Services, consisted of eight months of hypersurveillance and an attempt to take away their young children. They hauled the family into court and threatened to throw the children into foster care.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

And, precisely because most cases we think of when we hear the words “child abuse” are nothing like the horror stories and far more like the case of Logan Marr, the data show that, almost always, family preservation is safer than foster care. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.