Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Sometime in the early years of the current century, a group of powerful advocates who thought that too many children were being placed in foster care came up with a proposal for change that they called “child welfare finance reform.” … So under Family First, we created new federal funding for those services.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

● 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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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Title IV-E agencies are tribes and state agencies that utilize Title IV-E funds to provide foster care service. Research indicates that children have better outcomes, including placement stability and reduced occurrence of mental health disorders, when placed with kinship providers. [3] About the Law. 2023, September).

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The expanded KVC Missouri team will serve thousands of families each year, offering preventative family strengthening services, foster care , children’s mental health treatment, educational academies, and other services from 20 locations including Kansas City, St. Louis, and Springfield. Learn more at www.kvcmissouri.org.

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All For Kids

MARCH 12, 2025

Other studies show that young women with healthy relationships with their fathers were less likely to become clinically depressed or anxious, develop eating disorders, body dysmorphia, or be dissatisfied with their appearance or body weight. We all have a role in ensuring every child in our nation is loved, safe, nurtured, and cared for.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.

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