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The fundamental misconception at the heart of the Family First Act

Child Welfare Monitor

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.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

She is wrong about domestic violence, 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 Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.

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Child Welfare Update: February 2024

Child Welfare Monitor

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 It would bar school districts and Health and Human Services from investigating educational neglect in a homeschool setting.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● Tearing apart families because of foster-care panic is common; admitting that’s why you’re doing it is not. But this story from WitnessLA includes the case of a Los Angeles mother who was investigated by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but initially allowed to keep her children.