Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Together with Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County and local schools throughout Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Cureton will work with refugee youth to capture their pre-migration and resettlement experiences.

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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS), which supervises local agencies such as ACS, is required to review all local investigations of child fatalities reported to the State Central Register and to publish a summary report within six months of the investigation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Faced with one revelation after another about tragedies involving children previously known to the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services, that agency has come up with a knee-jerk response that is simple, obvious and wrong: a worst-in-the-nation mad rush to tear far more children away from their families.

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Shelter, Inc

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Shelter is proud to announce a $2,000,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to partner with Let It Be Us for a new Emergency Foster Care Program. Being removed from their home, for whatever reason, is a traumatic time for a young person, and having a soft place to land is critical.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Services include family strengthening programs , mental and behavioral health services , substance use treatment , child welfare case assistance and more. KVC Missouri KVC Missouri supports over 1,100 foster families and provides community and family services and residential treatment to hundreds of children each year.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

but also a crucial requirement for sustaining our contracts with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).” Receiving accreditation is not only a testament to the quality of Shelter, Inc.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

In 2019, Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Child Welfare (DCW) opted to be one of six states and two tribal nations/territories to be the first sites to pilot the curriculum as part of a national effort to develop a universal curriculum to train and certify foster parents.

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Michigan Social Work

MARCH 11, 2022

Community Partner: Shadin Adityeh, Director of Employment and Economic Empowerment Programs, Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County and Detroit. Welcome to the Motor City: Exploring Refugee Resettlement Among Afghan Refugees and Beyond. Faculty Member: Assistant Professor Ashley Cureton. Tuxedo Project Community Map.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

Just over a year ago, a performance audit by the Montana Legislature’s Audit Division confirmed that the all-purpose excuse for this offered up by the state’s family policing agency, the Child and Family Services Division (CFSD) – drugs -- was, to put it kindly, nonsense. The chance comes in the form of a bill, HB-37.

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In-school mental health services help students heal and teachers teach We know trauma is affecting our kids’ ability to learn, but there are things we can do to help them heal. I encourage the Mayor, with the support of civic leaders and council members, to work together to make these services readily available to our students.

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PTSD Mental Health Substance Abuse Schools 52

Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 6, 2024

One of these special guests was the aunt of Joanna (age three), Terry (age two) and Sierra (age six months) Denton-Carrillo , who were drowned by their mother despite desperate efforts by their father to warn the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) and LAPD about her deteriorating mental state.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I would have thought the toys were meant to help the kids; but, in any event, it’s not much help in a state that tears apart families at the second highest rate in America.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Perhaps now, thanks to a performance audit of the Child and Family Services Division, lawmakers will face up to the harm done by Montana’s dubious distinction, child removal capital of America.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Because it so benefits both ACS and the state agency that runs the hotline, the Office of Children and Family Services. . ● He likes things the way they are because they enable Maximum Feasible Buckpassing. I’m thinking it’s the third one. That means it also benefits the mayor and the governor.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2018 The State Assembly holds a hearing Oct. That causes havoc for families wrongly investigated, and deluges workers with so many false reports they have less time to find the few children in real danger.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (IDCFS) reported that in 2020, 102 children died in Illinois alone from abuse or neglect. According to the American Society for the Positive Care of Children (SPCC), five children in the U.S. die every day from abuse.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

As Commissioner of the New York State Division for Youth (now the Office of Children and Family Services), he was the highest-ranking black official in the administration of Gov. I was proud to be in the company of someone with influence and respect at the highest level of New York state government. Mario Cuomo.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (IDCFS) reported that in 2020, 102 children died in Illinois alone from abuse or neglect. According to the American Society for the Positive Care of Children (SPCC), five children in the U.S. die every day from abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It’s the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS). In New York, county governments (and New York City) run family policing. Even had that therapist realized how much harm it would do to call in a report, the therapist may well have felt s/he had no choice. OCFS theoretically performs oversight.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Because most parents involved with child welfare are covered by either Medicaid or (more rarely) private insurance, they could be referred to these services. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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Brightpoint

APRIL 22, 2024

In doing so, we can begin to dismantle the barriers that prevent families from thriving, fostering a healthier, more equitable Illinois for all.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 30, 2023

In Los Angeles, the family policing agency – which takes away children at one of the highest rates among big cities – is known as the Department of Children and Family Services. But, as the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition explains in a new report, DCFS Stands for Dividing and Conquering Families.

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

And if we can connect that care to a well-funded network of other social service providers that can help families access housing, food and employment, we won’t need to turn families away or see children lose access to services because their parents were relocated in the middle of a crisis.

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And if we can connect that care to a well-funded network of other social service providers that can help families access housing, food and employment, we won’t need to turn families away or see children lose access to services because their parents were relocated in the middle of a crisis.

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Medicaid Interventional Disability Social Services 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2023

And finally, we are pleased to announce that the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Division of Children and Family Services is the winner of NCCPR’s first Family Policing Euphemism of the Year award!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

It’s standard operating procedure for Chicago Public Schools to do this to children – and for DCFS (the Department of Children and Family Services) to investigate. Mom was late picking her up from school. Good thing they don’t have anything else to do. Unfortunately Chicago is not alone. It also happens in Washington, D.C. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

As Molly Parker writes : News stories about child welfare tend to stake out one of two positions: They take agencies like [the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services] to task for missing numerous and seemingly obvious red flags leading to a child’s death; or they draw attention to cases where children have been unnecessarily removed.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

Ripley previously founded Sequel Youth and Family Services, which became known for the death of 16-year-old Cornelius Frederick while being restrained at a Michigan facility in 2020 and allegations of abuse and neglect at other Sequel facilities.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In addition, no child should be removed from a safe, loving caregiver to access mental or behavioral health services. At KVC, we are accountable for how well we care for children and families. The federal Child and Family Services Review looks at each state’s foster care performance against national standards.

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Community Care

MARCH 14, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) said it recognised the “pressures that councils are facing on children’s services” and that some of the £4.8bn increase in government grant funding for councils over the next three years announced at last year’s spending review would go towards addressing this.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

The good news The good news in this document is entirely in one section, “Invest in Supportive Services.” There’s also a glaring omission: childcare.)

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Justice and Corrections 98

Gateway Foundation

AUGUST 17, 2022

Your program may include additional holistic treatments, trauma and family services or diagnosis and treatment for any co-existing disorders. Our individualized treatments draw from science and evidence-based care, and we build out each program to fit your unique needs and goals.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

.” Agency sector concerns For agency sector body the REC, deputy chief executive Kate Shoesmith welcomed the fact that the government had recognised the “important role agency workers, interims and locums play in children and family services”, driven by “growing demand on social services, increasing pressure on social workers (..)

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The Guardian

MARCH 9, 2023

Those in need are paying the price The net loss of social workers from children and families services should rightly ring alarm bells in Westminster and across the country ( Social workers in England quitting in record numbers, 23 February ). The social care workforce has faced a decade of Tory neglect, writes Dr Phoebe Beedell.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Underestimating foster care panic In discussing the response to high-profile child abuse fatalities at the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, OPEGA acknowledges that staff at the state family policing agency, the Office of Child and Family Services, said they were “working from a place of fear…” But the report underestimates the impact of that (..)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Unfortunately, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the county family policing agency, the Department of Children and Family Services, learned nothing from this. It may have contributed to alarm in CDSS and contributed to the agency’s wise decision to scrap the algorithm project.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2022

Normally, there is a news peg for stuff like this – some big event in the news prompting a newspaper to offer this kind of additional “context.”

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