Child Welfare Monitor
JANUARY 10, 2025
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.
University of Connecticut
OCTOBER 16, 2024
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 Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 10, 2023
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.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
In an interview with Community Care, Jones, who is emeritus professor of social work at Kingston University and St George’s, University of London, said he had recommended that trusts recruit from a wider pool of staff, beyond social workers, and cut administrative burdens for practitioners, and this was now being put into practice.
Child Welfare Monitor
MARCH 3, 2025
Gavin had been the subject of multiple reports to the Utah Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS), including at least four reports from his school describing him as eating food from the trash and with other signs of neglect and abuse. But he did not disclose the abuse, probably for fear of retaliation by the abusers.
Child Welfare Monitor
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
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?
Child Welfare Monitor
JULY 22, 2024
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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