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Child Welfare Monitor
JULY 22, 2024
.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 31, 2024
In New York, it’s 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 child’s mother. Taking children on these grounds is illegal in New York because of a class-action lawsuit, Nicholson v. said in court papers.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Or does ACS prefer a system that allows it to engage in maximum feasible buck-passing? 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. But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” And what will these groups do with the $20 million?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 27, 2022
And, precisely because most cases we think of when we hear the words “child abuse” are nothing like the horror stories and far more like the case of Logan Marr, the data show that, almost always, family preservation is safer than foster care. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 25, 2022
Just a week later, two of our sons were engaged in some rough horseplay. Would she feel that way were she fighting to get her child out of foster care? By the way, Councilmember Oh’s child was interviewed separately and told the social worker what happened – just like Dr. Goldman’s children. Two trips to the E.R.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
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 foster care. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.
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