University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 16, 2024

to evaluate how families identified by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services as at risk of child maltreatment respond to strengthened financial security. Grant Foundation, and is the first large scale study in the U.S.

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

At Shelter Youth & Family Services, we honor Black History Month by shining a light on three pioneers who tirelessly fought for justice and equality in America, including in the child welfare system.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

The number of victims found in New York dropped from 56,760 in FFY 2021 in to 50,056 in FFY 2022, which the Office of Child and Family Services attributed in its CM 2022 commentary to that change in evidentiary standards.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

A decision by the California Supreme Court sheds rare light on how family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) like the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services behave, and how that behavior hurts children.

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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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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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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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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Renae Storey, Vice President Southern Region at Brightpoint, formerly Children’s Home & Aid and Adam Woehlke, Director of Behavioral Health Services at Hoyleton Youth & Family Services | October 9, 2023 Childhood and teenage years are an exciting time during our development as humans. Clair County, formerly the St.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

If a child has been or is being removed from your home under the Colorado Revised Statute 19-3-401 or 19-3-405(2)(a), OR a court entered an emergency protective order regarding your child(ren) pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute 19-3-405(2)(b), see the notice of rights and remedies or families may contact the Office of Respondent Parents Counsel.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Children and parents involved in Dependency and Neglect proceedings have a right to a Family Services Plan and can be represented by an attorney if they qualify. Will my children be adopted? Courts weigh many different factors and almost always attempt to reunify prior to considering termination of parental rights and adoption.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Former Illinois DCFS director Jess McDonald's "EKG chart" More than 25 years ago, when he was running the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Jess McDonald created what he called his “EKG chart.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A year-and-a-half ago on these pages, I wrote about the tragic deaths of two children who had been institutionalized by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, only to die while in the agency’s care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Unfortunately, when it comes to the most important recommendations, the Maine Office of Children and Family Services, while not opposing them outright, showed no enthusiasm. The only problem is that the recommendations are too timid, often suggesting pilot programs for ideas that have already been proven all over the country.

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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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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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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

KVC Missouri and Great Circle, two nonprofits with a shared mission to provide high-quality children’s mental health and family services, have finalized the agreement that will guide their integration. On April 1, Great Circle’s nearly 800 employees will become part of KVC.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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