Brightpoint

APRIL 22, 2024

This program, aimed at providing free diapers through the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), is a testament to the state’s commitment to addressing diaper insecurity head-on. 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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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services. It’s important to note that KVC does not have the same mix of services in each state.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

In FY 2023, the District of Columbia’s Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) updated its online mandated reporter training to include a module focused on understanding and addressing implicit bias for mandated reporters. Department of Health and Human Services” with no citation. Here are a few.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

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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. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2018 The State Assembly holds a hearing Oct. Source: U.S.

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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. Great Circle has a long history, broad community of supporters, and a passion for serving families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services Trends in Foster Care and Adoption, FFY 2011-2020 Using the same limited measures, OPEGA suggests that child abuse deaths in June 2021 didn’t have much effect, since investigations didn’t increase. The result is the Disney version of how a family policing agency works. Source: U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. Alberi’s whole approach is so absurd it leads me to write a sentence I never thought would appear in this blog: In some respects, Todd Landry is right. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 7, 2024

Accidental deaths that were made possible by egregious neglect are often not included, To get states to use more data sources, the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act (P.L. In its current Child and Family Services Plan , DCS reported that it receives information on all unreported child fatalities from local CFRT’s.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services confirms it. A case in Upstate New York illustrates the horrifying double standards of family police agencies when it comes to abuse in foster care. In Nevada, even the family police agency in metropolitan Las Vegas wants to stop having to take calls for so-called educational neglect.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) breaks these determinants down into five domains: economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment and social and community context.

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Healthcare Mental Health Telehealth Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For that reason, Congress in 1996 added a provision in federal law that requires all states to provide assurances to the federal Department of Health and Human Services that they have provisions for disclosing findings and information regarding child fatalities and near fatalities from maltreatment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

. ● Tearing apart families because of foster-care panic is common; admitting that’s why you’re doing it is not. But this story from WitnessLA includes the case of a Los Angeles mother who was investigated by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but initially allowed to keep her children.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

It would bar school districts and Health and Human Services from investigating educational neglect in a homeschool setting. The march continues to remove protections for homeschooled children The powerful homeschool lobby continues its crusade to eliminate the few regulations that still exist to protect homeschooled children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

In 2019, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services touted the brand-new Aunt Marthas Integrated Care Center as a national model. Vermonts human services agency continued to send teens there even after the incidents. In 2016 the entire residential program was shut down.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The co-chairs of the Maine Legislatures Human Services Committee issued a statement that includes this reminder : Maines definition of child abuse and neglect is broad, vague and conflates poverty with neglect. Foster care numbers have gone down in Hawaii but not by enough. I have a commentary about it in Honolulu Civil Beat.

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