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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.

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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.