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. 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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Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Social Worker 130

Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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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Child Welfare Medicaid Foster Care Case Management 154

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

A decision by the California Supreme Court sheds rare light on how family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) like the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services behave, and how that behavior hurts children.

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Child Welfare Welfare Family Services Substance Abuse 75

Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As if things aren’t hard enough, the tragic reality is that too many Chicago children and teens frequently experience trauma—through gun violence, substance abuse, domestic and relationship violence, and grief and loss.

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PTSD Mental Health Substance Abuse Interventional 52

Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

The basic conflict is this: the core training instructs mandatory reporters to report any suspicion of abuse or neglect, while the implicit bias unit urges mandatory reporters to doubt their instincts and reconsider their duty to report. and volunteers who work with children.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Self-harm Welfare 186

Shelter, Inc

MARCH 12, 2025

To get a better understanding of this ongoing crisis and how to combat it, we sat down with Shelter Youth & Family Services Executive Director, Carina H. Other significant risk factors include housing instability, caregiver instability, substance abuse, involvement in the juvenile justice system, and running away.

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Substance Abuse Advocacy Child Welfare LCSW 52

Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 7, 2024

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 Welfare Substance Abuse Human Services 130