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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.
.” 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. An article in the Washington Post reported on interviews with three of the mothers participating in the pilot.
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.
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.
Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease fostercare caseloads and refer families to community supports.
We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than fostercare or massive surveillance, its also safer. Seven years later it was exposed as rife with so much abuse that Illinois took all foster youth out of the place.
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