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Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into fostercare.” There is something strange about this example.
● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in fostercare. This story from The Press-Enterprise in Riverside describes a case in California in which that happened – and then the children faced horrific abuse in a foster home overseen by a private agency. ●
Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about fostercare in West Virginia. Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminaljustice system. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is fostercare.
North Carolina ended its restrictive policy of reporting only fatalities determined by a chief medical examiner to be homicide, and it also began efforts to incorporate vital statistics and criminaljustice data. During FY 2023, some states reported changes that may have resulted in a reduced number of child fatalities reported.
Yolanda has also worked for the FosterCare & Adoptive Services Division where she provided oversight and support to foster parents, conducted training for kinship providers, facilitated support groups, licensed kinship foster homes and relicensed foster homes.
And then there are the times when the foster child doesn’t live long enough to be reunified. In criminaljustice cases that involve the death penalty, the accused is entitled to a lawyer. Here’s a case in point. ● Reason has an update on one such case in Arizona. ● The accused also is entitled to a lawyer for an appeal.
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It would never be tolerated in a story about criminaljustice. A question for any journalists reading this: Suppose you were working on a story about the criminaljustice system, and a prosecutor said: “ By definition , anyone in jail is a criminal – they’re rapists and torturers and all sorts of other crooks.”
Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. The criminaljustice system pales in comparison," he told Law360. Even people who work in the criminaljustice field are shocked when they see what happens in Family Court."
After my MSW, my goal is to work in the criminaljustice system, practicing social work in a juvenile detention center. I have always been passionate about criminaljustice reform and lowering our country’s recidivism rate through rehabilitative practices. Charlotte M. Kinlock Endowment Fund in Social Work.
It was tried first in criminaljustice – and proven to be racially biased. 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. It amounts to computerized racial profiling. Anthony Avalos. Noah Cuatro.
Even the minimal due process protections in criminaljustice are effectively null and void in “child welfare.” The key to the harm that family policing – a more accurate term than “child welfare” -- does to children is the enormous power of the family police.
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