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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

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 foster care.” There is something strange about this example.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Sept. 24, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in foster care. 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. ●

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How the journalism of child welfare fails

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care.

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Child Maltreatment 2023: A reduction in child maltreatment victims or a retrenchment of child protection?

Child Welfare Monitor

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 criminal justice data. During FY 2023, some states reported changes that may have resulted in a reduced number of child fatalities reported.

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Yolanda Leon, MSW ’05

University of Connecticut

Yolanda has also worked for the Foster Care & 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.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 25, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

And then there are the times when the foster child doesn’t live long enough to be reunified. In criminal justice 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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UConn School of Social Work Faculty and Ph.D. Students to Present at SSWR 2025

University of Connecticut

Room: Willow A, Level 2 Author(s): Nathanael Okpych, PhD ; Jennifer Geiger, PhD Presentation: Crossing the Finish Line: Factors that Influence College Degree Completion for Students with Foster Care Backgrounds Time: 2:00 p.m. 11:15 a.m.

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