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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

CO4Kids

Kinship care is an arrangement in which children under 18 years of age who are unable to live with their 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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Backers of a bill that tries to legitimize hidden foster care in Virginia say it creates guardrails. On the contrary; it sends the rights of children and families careening off a cliff.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This process, known as kinship foster care, is usually the least harmful form of foster care. But it’s still foster care. Let me repeat that: Kinship care is foster care. Kinship care is foster care. Kinship care is foster care.

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Child Welfare Information Regarding Family Detention or Deportation for Impacted Parents or Caregivers

CO4Kids

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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Harbour Partnership

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The Suburban Chicago Youth Housing Initiative is designed to provide temporary shelter and essential services for runaway, homeless, and at-risk youth aged 12-17. Both organizations are committed to building a safer, more supportive environment for youth through access to positive youth development programs, social services, and aftercare.

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The good news: A public radio station in Kansas City talked to the right people for a "child welfare" story. The bad news: They still missed the point

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The premise is that because of the “shortage,” children can’t see their parents while in foster care, and families don’t get the guidance they need to jump through all the hoops they must surmount to prove themselves worthy of getting their children back. The story suggests counseling and pay raises for the workers.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 11, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Sarah Font, who actually has suggested that “aging out” of foster care with no home at all is better for older foster youth than reunification or guardianship with a relative – because while family might offer love, aging out offers money. Consider the comments of Penn State Prof.

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