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New York’s family police agency is still harassing survivors of domesticviolence and their children. In New York, it’s illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into fostercare just because they “witnessed domesticviolence” – typically a husband or boyfriend beating the child’s mother.
Fong will be interviewed at the second of these two events sponsored by the City University of New York School of Law. Note that you need to register for each separately You can register for the first event here and the second event here.) ● The head of the family police agency in Missouri is bragging that they have reduced fostercare.
This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in fostercare with no compromise of safety. Cara, who asked to keep her last name private, said she had already been in touch with a domesticviolence organization about her ex.
It provides astoundingly small amounts of cash or basic goods so children can stay home or return home because, guess what, they were taken, or are now trapped in fostercare, because of poverty alone. It’s an excellent program – but why is it just a tiny add-on to a system built on family policing and fostercare?
That is false and it's actually dangerous for children because it fosters and perpetuates a culture of ACS using these invasive and distressing and degrading tactics. You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1.
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in fostercare. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.
While researching my book, I interviewed a group of stewards for the caseworkers’ union in Massachusetts. So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. She said no.
Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or fostercare systems. This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents.
My current internship has provided me with so many opportunities to meet with community partners, learn how to use anticipatory empathy, and practice motivational interviewing. My goal for my final year is to do a clinical internship working with children. My focused area of study is Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan.
And see also The 74’s interview with Darcey Merritt, associate professor of social work at New York University, discussing why CPS should stand for Child Poverty Surveillance. ? Spectrum News reports on real solutions offered by the Maine Coalition to End DomesticViolence. ? Last week I highlighted a law review article by Prof.
We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than fostercare or massive surveillance, it’s also safer. More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation.
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.
Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into fostercare.” There is something strange about this example.
The only ground cited in the documentary for the removal of her children was the fact that she was herself a victim of domesticviolence. But in North Carolina, its open season on domesticviolence survivors and their children. Otherwise, its just fostercare by another name.
At almost three years old, and after two straight years in fostercare with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. An article in the Washington Post reported on interviews with three of the mothers participating in the pilot.
Eleven percent of Black and Hispanic children in Massachusetts will be torn from their parents and consigned to the chaos of Massachusetts fostercare. Time for the token quote from a Black person Some reporters at the Globe seem to have a lot of trouble quoting Black people about child welfare.
Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease fostercare caseloads and refer families to community supports.
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