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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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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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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!)