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Child Welfare Information Regarding Family Detention or Deportation for Organizations

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Concerned individuals should engage an attorney for any topics regarding legal guidance. What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado? The child welfare system for the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) oversees child welfare practices, policies and funding.

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When it comes to the problems plaguing “child welfare” wrongful removal drives everything else – including caseworker turnover. Case in point: Massachusetts

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

They think they’re going to be working with families, helping families to engage in services, to be self-sufficient, to move on to higher education,” Everett said. It is a symptom of the culture of contempt for families and a lust for child removal that has characterized Massachusetts child welfare for decades.

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Child Welfare Information Regarding Family Detention or Deportation for the Community

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Concerned individuals should engage an attorney for any topics regarding legal guidance. Kin or relatives are almost always the first resource that child welfare staff will explore if a child needs a safe living environment, even temporarily. The following information is not legal advice or guidance. How do counties define kin?

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Building Evidence and Scaling Impact: The Role of Logic Models in Colorado’s Child Welfare Efforts

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In order to engage in evidence-based decision making, it’s important to support evidence building if a service isn’t evidence-based. It’s a powerful tool that helps everyone involved in a service’ s implementation understand the service’s design and how it can achieve its goals.

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Child Welfare Information Regarding Family Detention or Deportation for Impacted Parents or Caregivers

CO4Kids

Concerned individuals should engage an attorney for any topics regarding legal guidance. To find child welfare offices in Colorado, visit the Contact Your County Human Services Department website for county specific information. The Supporting Kinship Foster Care Homes Bill supports kinship families involved in child welfare cases.

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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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?

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“Child welfare” and racism: Children’s Rights steps up

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Complaint alleges that the two largest counties in Minnesota, Hennepin and Ramsey, engage in systematic, rampant, racially biased needless investigation and surveillance of families and needless removal of children. In Minnesota the power rests with law enforcement – and they abuse it constantly.