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The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. It’s the New York State Office of Children and FamilyServices (OCFS).
Because most parents involved with child welfare are covered by either Medicaid or (more rarely) private insurance, they could be referred to these services. I’m not saying that all families were getting all the services they needed. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the most important recommendations, the Maine Office of Children and FamilyServices, while not opposing them outright, showed no enthusiasm. The only problem is that the recommendations are too timid, often suggesting pilot programs for ideas that have already been proven all over the country.
She is wrong about domesticviolence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. Landry runs the Office of Child and FamilyServices within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.
In New York, thanks to a class-action lawsuit , its illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into foster care just because they witnessed domesticviolence typically a husband or boyfriend beating the childs mother. The family ultimately was cleared and someone else was substantiated for abuse.
million settlement reached in eight-year-old girl’s brutal death : The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department (CFYD) has agreed to pay $5.5 New Mexico: $5.5 Samantha died of blunt force trauma to the head, and Lerma placed her body in the trash. And already has, I would think!)
. ● LAist reports on another new study, this one from UCLA’s Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families. This one concerns how survivors of domesticviolence are victimized by the family police. The courts were asking ‘Why didn't you just leave? Why did you keep your kid in this situation?’
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