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The fundamental misconception at the heart of the Family First Act

Child Welfare Monitor

It expanded the allowable uses of Title IV-E funding, formerly used to pay only for foster care, to include what the Act called “Prevention Services,” meaning services to prevent foster care. States had other sources of federal reimbursement for these programs, such as Title IV-B, the Social Services Block Grant, and TANF.

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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. Contributing factors might be the end of COVID-19 assistance programs and the growing mental health, substance abuse, and housing crises in the District.

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A jumble of standards: How state and federal authorities have underestimated child maltreatment fatalities

Child Welfare Monitor

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

For decades, weve said states grossly underestimate the rate of abuse in foster care indeed they dont even try to find out. 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.

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Child Welfare Update: February 2024

Child Welfare Monitor

We soon learned that the little girl, who was blind in one eye, had first been removed from Sorey at the age of two months by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) due to Sorey’s substance abuse. Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, was in jail at the time. And already has, I would think!)

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Seven years later it was exposed as rife with so much abuse that Illinois took all foster youth out of the place. In 2019, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services touted the brand-new Aunt Marthas Integrated Care Center as a national model. Just five years later, amid a sexual abuse scandal, it was shut down.