Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

On May 22, 2024, the Senate Finance Committee (SFC) held a hearing entitled “The Family First Prevention Services Act [FFPSA]: Successes, Roadblocks, and Opportunities for Improvement.” The hearing focused on Part I of FFPSA, which is titled “Prevention Activities Under Title IV-E.” In his opening statement, Senator Ron Wyden, the prime author of the Act along with the late Orrin Hatch, recognized that FFPSA has so far not had the anticipated effect. “Six years on,&

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

An extraordinary story by Stephannie Stokes of WABE , the public radio station in Atlanta, is built around one of the most cruel, most odious practices of family policing systems: making parents pay ransom to get their children back. (No, of course they don’t call it that, but when you take someone’s children and make them pay money to get the children back, euphemisms like “child support” only obscure what’s really happening.

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Swhelper

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of chronic absenteeism have nearly doubled across the nation for students in kindergarten through grade 12. This increase was tied to the mode of instruction during the early years of the pandemic.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. It’s not just Kansas; it’s happening in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Texas, New Mexico, Illinois, Colorado, and more. Across the U.S., children are also staying in hospital ERs, hotels, and even out-of-state places, and some are experiencing one-night “emergency” placements in foster homes.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The government will legislate to tackle “profiteering” from children’s care placements in England, a minister has vowed. Children’s minister Janet Daby said that the forthcoming Children’s Wellbeing Bill would strengthen regulation of the sector to “return children’s social care to delivering high quality outcomes for looked after children at a sustainabl

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

By Sue Coyle More than 650,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States on one night in 2023. Those were the results of the 2023 Point-in-Time Count, an annual count of individuals experiencing both sheltered and unsheltered homelessness required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The results showed an increase from the year prior, as more than 70,000 more individuals were counted as compared with 2022.

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