NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

The other is if they try to pass off official figures about abuse in foster care as bearing any resemblance to reality. States typically claim that, in any given year, fewer than one percent of foster youth are abused or neglected in foster care. That doesn’t even count foster youth abusing each other.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

CASA volunteers also complete 30 to 40 hours of training with a curriculum that includes psychology, the foster care system, juvenile law, court structure, dynamics of abuse, how to build trust and rapport, volunteer safety as well as other training that may be tailored to the needs of local jurisdictions. “It’s

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. We started providing foster care case management services in Kansas in 1996.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. Casey Foundation, Child Trends and Dr. Glenn Saxe of New York University.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

The report notes that these recommendations are not meant to apply to family foster homes not because the idea of fencing a foster home necessarily appalled them, but because of the diverse needs of children and youth in foster home placements and the large volume of foster homes located throughout the state.

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