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Complete Fiscal Year 2024 data now on the Dashboard of the District of Columbias Child and FamilyServices Agency (CFSA) reveal significant changes over the previous fiscal year. The number of children entering fostercare increased for the first time in over ten years.
Shelter is proud to announce a $2,000,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Children and FamilyServices (DCFS) to partner with Let It Be Us for a new Emergency FosterCare Program. However, it may take days or even weeks to match the child with the right foster home.
Sometime in the early years of the current century, a group of powerful advocates who thought that too many children were being placed in fostercare came up with a proposal for change that they called “child welfare finance reform.” … So under Family First, we created new federal funding for those services.
In recent years, some Kansas children in fostercare have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. What’s behind this national fostercare placement crisis? But this isn’t what fostercare is for. Let’s rewind.
.” 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 fostercare funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.
Former Illinois DCFS director Jess McDonald's "EKG chart" More than 25 years ago, when he was running the Illinois Department of Children and FamilyServices, Jess McDonald created what he called his “EKG chart.” McDonald was charting one of the nation’s early foster-care panics.
Whether that’s a story of a fostercare caseworker noticing and meeting a child’s needs, a family reconnecting after difficult times, or a community coming together for a shared cause, life is really all about positive relationships with other people. You can win KVC swag and Amazon gift cards!
Let’s focus on the “good stuff”: If you happen to be a foster child in Grand Rapids Michigan you can get a free haircut! Another issue exalts the fact that one of the nation’s big residential McTreatment chains received “a grant of $7,250 to create a mentoring program for youth in fostercare.” But all that is such a downer.
Faced with one revelation after another about tragedies involving children previously known to the Louisiana Department of Children and FamilyServices, 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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There is nothing that would provide due process for families or in any way require a supremely powerful, unaccountable system to give up any of that power. In child welfare, we all say the same things, but we all mean different things by what we say: Nobody ever says: “I think fostercare should be the first resort!”
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 FamilyServices Division (CFSD) – drugs -- was, to put it kindly, nonsense. The chance comes in the form of a bill, HB-37. .
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 fostercare. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the most important recommendations, the Maine Office of Children and FamilyServices, while not opposing them outright, showed no enthusiasm. The OCFS response boils down to: Hey Legislature, it’s up to you, we don’t care. Casey Family Programs has some excellent resources on this.
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 fostercare. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.
That contributes to foster-care panics , sharp, sudden increases in children needlessly torn from their homes. We’re explaining the problem – and why foster-care panics make it worse -- and suggesting real solutions. Therolf’s critics are simply doing his job for him.
It’s the New York State Office of Children and FamilyServices (OCFS). In New York, county governments (and New York City) run family policing. Mostly that means interference that makes nothing better and sometimes makes things worse, as with their support for what should be called sugar-frosted fostercare.
KVC Missouri and Great Circle, two nonprofits with a shared mission to provide high-quality children’s mental health and familyservices, have finalized the agreement that will guide their integration. We can truly transform the face of fostercare and mental health.” Learn more at www.kvcmissouri.org.
● New England Public Media has an excellent story about how Massachusetts is piloting the most promising innovation in the country for safely reducing needless fostercare. Oh, and one more thing: The crisis that led to all this actually began with a botched family police intervention involving Ms. Lopez’s oldest child.
Unfortunately, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the county family policing agency, the Department of Children and FamilyServices, 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.
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 FamilyServices attributed in its CM 2022 commentary to that change in evidentiary standards. And the number of child maltreatment fatalities fell from 182 to 164.
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.
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 FamilyServices behave, and how that behavior hurts children.
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 FamilyServices. But, as the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition explains in a new report, DCFS Stands for Dividing and Conquering Families.
Because it so benefits both ACS and the state agency that runs the hotline, the Office of Children and FamilyServices. . ● 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.
There’s a new study out from Rutgers University concerning children placed in fostercare for 30 days or less – placements that always raise the question: If you could return the child in 30 days why did you take the child at all? Here’s the bad news: It took a decision of the Arizona Supreme Court to get this done.
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 FamilyServices, only to die while in the agency’s care.
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.
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 FamilyServices] 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.
Perhaps now, thanks to a performance audit of the Child and FamilyServices Division, lawmakers will face up to the harm done by Montana’s dubious distinction, child removal capital of America.
Children can be held in fostercare for months before a court ever decides if the child was, in fact, abused or neglected. And, of course, overwhelmingly, the allegation is neglect and that often means simply that the family was poor.) Such a panic has swept through the state , creating an artificial “shortage” of foster homes.
A case planner living with regrets that he failed to avoid a family separation through fostercare. But they’re examples of the remarkable testimony presented over three sessions in New York City this year, gatherings titled The Reckoning: Transforming Systems to Achieve Family Justice and Integrity.
but also a crucial requirement for sustaining our contracts with the Department of Children and FamilyServices (DCFS).” is the only agency in Illinois to provide comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Shelter Inc. Learn more at www.shelter-inc.org. The post Shelter, Inc.
And one family policing agency has come up with one destined to be a classic. And so, we are pleased to announce that NCCPR’s first Family Policing Euphemism of the Year award goes to the Cuyahoga County Division of Children and FamilyServices for calling the new parking place shelter it plans to build to stash kids – are you ready?
One reform proposal–known as “blind removal”–seemed blessedly simple: just hide the race and ethnicity of a child being considered for placement in fostercare, and racial differences in child removal will disappear. million times. But in March, 2021, DCFS withdrew its plan to pilot blind removal.
Yet Therolf and Hamilton present it not just as a solution to the problems plaguing the Los Angeles Department of Children and FamilyServices but the only viable solution. could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in fostercare. Anthony Avalos. Gabriel Fernandez. Noah Cuatro.
Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.
At almost three years old, and after two straight years in fostercare with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, was in jail at the time. And already has, I would think!)
The Illinois fostercare panic may have ended in Chicago. The foster-care panic that started sweeping through the state in 2019 continued in 2020 – and in much of the state, 2021. In some regions the number of families torn apart has more than doubled since 2017. Guess what happened to child abuse deaths.
But while they’re making themselves media stars, their statements fan the flames of foster-care panic , encouraging more needless removal, doing enormous harm to the children needlessly removed, and overloading the system – making it even more likely that the next child in real danger will be missed. Local media love it.
That family—especially if they are black or brown–might find themselves a couple of steps away from a fostercare intervention when what they really needed were options that money can literally buy, like clothing, food, and child care. [5]. Saving money and sparing children from harm?
● Dr. Sharon McDaniel, a pioneer in doing kinship fostercare the right way, speaks out about the enormous harm of doing it the wrong way – through the subterfuge known as “hidden fostercare.” Anything less is a disservice to the families and children we claim to protect. ●
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Dreadful decisions by two governors and vile grandstanding from one current and one former public official plunged the state into foster-care panic. So it should come as no surprise that more and more families are literally defense-less.
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