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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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The tragic life and death of Gavin Peterson: Utah’s statement leaves many questions unanswered

Child Welfare Monitor

On October 10, the Utah Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) finally released a statement summarizing its involvement with Gavin Peterson, who died on July 9, 2024 at the age of 12. Gavin is interviewed at school without his parents and does not disclose abuse. Shouldn’t he have received a physical examination?

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

The four companies include three profit making corporations (United Health Services, Acadia Healthcare, and Vivant Behavioral Healthcare), and one nonprofit, Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health. Several details stand out, all of them involving the company called Vivant and its CEO, John “Jay” Ripley.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But, as the report itself acknowledges: In surveys and interviews, some OCFS supervisors and caseworkers indicated that valuable time is spent investigating reports that – in their opinion – did not appear to warrant an investigation. The report claims that parents have the right to refuse to let their children be interviewed.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 26, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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 Family Services] 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.

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William T. Grant Foundation Funds Study on Child Welfare and Cash Assistance

University of Connecticut

to evaluate how families identified by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services as at risk of child maltreatment respond to strengthened financial security. Grant Foundation, and is the first large scale study in the U.S. rural vs suburban). Read more about the EmPwR program.

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NCCPR News and commentary round-up, week ending January 10, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Publisher’s Weekly interviewed Roxanna Asgarian about her forthcoming book, We Were Once a Family , the story of “how flaws in the child welfare system contributed to the 2018 murder-suicide of six children by their adoptive parents.” Mom was late picking her up from school. Good thing they don’t have anything else to do.