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We must intervene to help maltreated children before they are irrevocably damaged by years of abuse and neglect On September 4, 2024, fourteen-year-old Colt Gray shot and killed two teachers and two students at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia with an AR-15 style rifle given to him by his father.
In New York, it’s illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into fostercare just because they “witnessed domestic violence” – typically a husband or boyfriend beating the child’s mother. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.) I want to highlight one case discussed in the story.
Her son was cared for by his grandmother – until the husband took the child by force and also made his way to the United States. The husband wound up in Massachusetts – and the boy, Ricardo, wound up in fostercare – because the father was abusing him too. The National Association of Counsel for Children agrees.
The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism. had written, “I am a bad kid” and “I need to behave at school or Mommy and Daddy will be arrested.” In the story, Ms.
Anna Arons of New York University School of Law, in which she summarized her landmark study “An Unintended Abolition.” What COVID changed – and the dogwhistling that followed First was just the shutdown of in-person schooling, which reduced the contact between children and this army of mandated reporters. We give families money.
. ● We’ve heard of one form of “ransom” in fostercare – parents forced to pay part of the cost of fostercare in order to get their kids back. The agency says it’s intended to discourage needless reports. But training is always the cop-out agencies use to avoid real change.
Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about fostercare in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is fostercare. Parents who lose their children to fostercare, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.
A couple of weeks ago, I linked to a review of Jessamine Chan’s novel The School for Good Mothers The reviewer noted the novel’s “closeness to reality.” That’s what they’ve done with the concept of “primary prevention” – turning it into another excuse to load families down with meaningless “counseling” and “parenting education.”
She did it -- three times -- when The New York Times exposed fostercare as “the new ‘Jane Crow’.” She wrote: I’m a licensed clinical social worker who spent my career in public child welfare, primarily providing fostercare services. All this made “Jane Addams” very upset. there in order to investigate families.
Shelter provides therapy to children and families in each of their programs, including those staying at its emergency shelters and transitional living homes, in fostercare or enrolled in Shelter’s Healthy Families program. Many of them have never had an adult in their life who consistently makes them feel secure.”
The reality is we are moving kids night to night, we’re driving kids across the state for one-night placements to get them to school, we’re putting bandages on situations.”… The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in fostercare.
While fostercare can be a crucial safety net for children and families in challenging circumstances, we at KVC know how important it is to help families stay together. Fostercare prevention and family preservation services help families remain intact, allowing children to grow and thrive! fostercare system.
Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan School of Law explains, what children need is relational permanence. Children need to be able to stay connected to everyone who loves them, whether they can care for them or not. But as Prof.
If enacted, the bill would expand state fostercare and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. We will also hear from Duane Price, a young man with experience in fostercare whose life was enhanced by getting a car.
Instead, by removing children from their homes, schools, and communities, DCF regularly causes severe harm to children. Regularly separating Massachusetts children from their families does not make them safer. After all, the vast majority of DCF cases are rooted in poverty, not physical or sexual abuse.
We have forced millions into fostercare where the rate of abuse is, in fact, vastly higher than in the general population and, independent studies show , vastly higher than agencies admit in official figures. She complains about kinship fostercare in part because relatives “live on the economic margins” [p.157]
Counsellor : They provide counselling and emotional support to individuals and families facing a wide range of challenges, including mental health issues, addiction, and crisis situations. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.
The company that makes and sells the particular predictive analytics software that, as the column above documents, failed disastrously, also used to be in charge of fostercare in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas County, Florida. That failed disastrously, too. NCCPR has an op-ed in the Journal about what to do about it. ?
The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about fostercare as the new “Jane Crow.”) Teachers make reports “based on the cleanliness of a child’s clothing or whether they bring food to school.” And it encourages the use of “counseling” and “parent education” to deal with the “stress.” Emphasis added.]
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The poll that wasn’t rigged Back in the 19 th Century, the white racists who stole Native American children and forced them into hideous boarding schools, and tore apart impoverished immigrant families and forced the children onto so-called “orphan trains” grandly called themselves “child savers.”
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That means that if a parent is thinking of asking for help, such as HeadStart child care, emergency housing, domestic violence support, substance abuse counseling, or Applied Behavior Analysis therapy funded by the state, they should be prepared to deal with [the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services]. …
At almost three years old, and after two straight years in fostercare with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. It would bar school districts and Health and Human Services from investigating educational neglect in a homeschool setting.
could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in fostercare. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. As is so common with Therolf’s stories, this implies that holding children in fostercare is safe and only returning a child home can place a child “at risk.”
The Post story cites with approval school districts that “trained” teachers in how to spot abuse while tracking 20 kids in zoom boxes. The horrors we’d all supposedly see once school reopened. Yes, school personnel are the largest category of mandated reporter. By “close attention” that sheriff meant – become a good little spy.
Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease fostercare caseloads and refer families to community supports.
Shanta Trivedi of the University of Baltimore School of Law wrote in The Washington Post on Feb. At that first hearing the detainees may – or may not – get a lawyer just before the hearing begins, and they almost never get effective counsel. Vague definitions of abuse and neglect open the door to state-approved discrimination.
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