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Child Protective Services in the District of Columbia: An alarming increase in incomplete investigations in FY2024

Child Welfare Monitor

Complete Fiscal Year 2024 data now on the Dashboard of the District of Columbias Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) reveal significant changes over the previous fiscal year. If social workers are not able to complete the required interviews and collect needed information timely, endangered children may suffer further harm.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. It is possible that there is a reasonable explanation for all of this, and a detailed look at the case file and interviews with all involved would reveal that yes, in this case there was no other option but removal.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But Reveal, the documentary series from the Center for Investigative Reporting begins its story about whats happening now, involving a powerful Utah family and a Native American child this way: In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. Actually, startling doesnt begin to describe it.

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Child Welfare Update: February 2024

Child Welfare Monitor

It would bar school districts and Health and Human Services from investigating educational neglect in a homeschool setting. An article in the Washington Post reported on interviews with three of the mothers participating in the pilot. And already has, I would think!) I don’t know where she got her information.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● 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. That needs to stop."

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long (2024 Edition)

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.