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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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?
CO4Kids
MAY 23, 2025
In spring 2023, CISU developed and administered a Site Readiness Assessment, informed by interviews with the pilot site and partners, to evaluate where the program could successfully grow.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 30, 2024
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.
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.
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