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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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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

CO4Kids

The child welfare system for the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) oversees child welfare practices, policies and funding. Each of Colorados 64 counties implements child welfare practices and delivers direct services to children, youth and families in their counties. Will my children be adopted?

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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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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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 domestic violence typically a husband or boyfriend beating the childs mother. Department of Health and Human Services confirms it. So now theres another lawsuit.

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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.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 11, 2025

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

More than 20 years ago, a lawsuit stopped New York Citys family police agency from tearing children from their parents just because the parent, usually the mother, was herself a survivor of domestic violence. But that didnt stop the agency from harassing those mothers and their children.