KVC

MARCH 30, 2022

Whether foster care seems like something you’re called to or your are simply curious to learn more, you’re in the right place. On any given day, nearly 407,000 children are in foster care in America. The primary goal of foster care is reunification. The Statistics: Children in Foster Care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

The other is if they try to pass off official figures about abuse in foster care as bearing any resemblance to reality. States typically claim that, in any given year, fewer than one percent of foster youth are abused or neglected in foster care. That doesn’t even count foster youth abusing each other.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

And again, Black children are hit hardest, taken into foster care at a rate 50% above their rate in the Indiana child population. In Indiana in 2022, 85% of the time , when children were thrown into foster care their parents were not even accused of physical or sexual abuse. The harm isn’t just emotional.

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National Casa Gal

MAY 29, 2024

We are grateful to foster parents who step in, in most cases temporarily, when families can’t be together. The post Celebrating National Foster Care Month appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Dreadful decisions by two governors and vile grandstanding from one current and one former public official plunged the state into foster-care panic. The monitor reports that many parents wait weeks or months for a defense attorney even to be assigned dramatically prolonging childrens time in foster care.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 25, 2025

But members of the legislature were already alarmed and began talking about withholding funds until the agency was able to report accurate data about child fatalities as well as the conditions of children in foster care. The bill would apply only to cases of abuse or neglect in foster care even though they are a rare occurrence.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

Taken together, they reveal a hellscape which, even if it is not designed to squeeze every last dollar out of poor families, perpetuate their poverty and prolong the trauma of foster care nevertheless does exactly that. That led to the child being thrown into foster care. So the foster care is prolonged.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 28, 2023

KABB-TV in San Antonio reported this week on the tragic death of 16-year-old Mia Morales who died in a car crash after running away from a makeshift foster care placement. It’s remarkable how many tragic failings of Texas foster care – and the failed attempt to fix it with a McLawsuit – are illustrated by this one case.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2024

And the reason for that is not because there are too few foster parents. When a child is abused in foster care, the abuser is not only the individual who committed the abuse. The abuser also is the family police agency because that agency put the child in that dangerous foster home, group home or institution in the first place.

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KVC

JUNE 20, 2024

Whether that’s a story of a foster care caseworker noticing and meeting a child’s needs, a family reconnecting after difficult times, or a community coming together for a shared cause, life is really all about positive relationships with other people.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2025

ENTRIES INTO FOSTER CARE PER THOUSAND IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN, 2022 This is what we mean by "Child Rremoval Capital of America Of all the options for placing children torn from their homes, among the very worst are so-called shelters. First came the bill that would send caseloads skyrocketing.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed.

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Shelter, Inc

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Shelter is proud to announce a $2,000,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to partner with Let It Be Us for a new Emergency Foster Care Program. However, it may take days or even weeks to match the child with the right foster home.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Ron DeSantis and the administration of former Governor Rick Scott skewed financial incentives for the “CBCs” toward holding more children in foster care and against trying to keep families together. But by 2015, the year after Miller’s Innocents Lost series started a foster-care panic, that was gone.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

This process, known as kinship foster care, is usually the least harmful form of foster care. But it’s still foster care. Let me repeat that: Kinship care is foster care. Kinship care is foster care. Kinship care is foster care. Easier than what?

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National Casa Gal

MAY 10, 2022

May is National Foster Care Month. With more than 407,000 children entering the system on any given day, National CASA/GAL is thankful for foster families. The post National Foster Care Month – Thank you for being a part of the village appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In her 2009 book, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare , Dorothy Roberts drew attention to the disproportional representation of Black children in foster care and child welfare in general and helped make “racial disproportionality” a buzzword in the child welfare world.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

So the public was primed to scapegoat family preservation when Nixzmary Brown died in January, 2006 – leading to a foster-care panic , a sharp sudden increase in the number of children torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. The panic was welcomed by the Times. So did The Imprint.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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National Casa Gal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

“This award will help me to inspire other kids in care as well, because I can show them just how much a child in foster care is capable of.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 9, 2024

Private foster care agencies in New York tell victims of abuse on their watch: If we don´t get a taxpayer bailout, you won´t get compensation for what was done to you. A lawyer for survivors apparently agrees.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Sometime in the early years of the current century, a group of powerful advocates who thought that too many children were being placed in foster care came up with a proposal for change that they called “child welfare finance reform.” … So under Family First, we created new federal funding for those services.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

CASA volunteers also complete 30 to 40 hours of training with a curriculum that includes psychology, the foster care system, juvenile law, court structure, dynamics of abuse, how to build trust and rapport, volunteer safety as well as other training that may be tailored to the needs of local jurisdictions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

A lawsuit alleges that a child who wandered out of his mothers home in West Virginia was placed for that reason alone -- in foster care. He wandered out of the foster home and died.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. What’s behind this national foster care placement crisis? But this isn’t what foster care is for. Let’s rewind.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 12, 2023

You probably remember the story: White adoptive parents of six black children drive themselves and the children off a cliff, killing them all. That may be all you remember, and perhaps wondering what would drive such a noble couple to such despair. After all, they rescued these children from their terrible parents, didn’t they?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

When I was put into foster care, the government removed me from my Native grandmother and placed me with my white father who was a rapist and pedophile with prior convictions. After some predatory events occurred, I was put into foster care with my three half-siblings.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Kinship care is an arrangement in which children under 18 years of age who are unable to live with their parents are placed in the care of relatives, close family friends, or other people important in their lives instead of being placed in traditional foster care or group homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2011, Joette Katz stepped off the Connecticut Supreme Court to take a far more difficult job: running the state Department of Children and Families, Connecticuts equivalent of the New York City Administration for Childrens Services. Within months, the death of a child known-to-the-system made headlines.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It fails because even when you really mean it, under this system, the prerequisite for prevention is inflicting trauma on children and families by interrogating and stripsearching children in the middle of the night, at best, and hauling them off to the chaos of foster care at worst. No, you cant fight trauma with trauma.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 19, 2025

So even more children will be needlessly torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. More will be abused in foster care. West Virginia Watch, for example, repeatedly claims that the states foster-care-capital-of-America status is mostly because of drug abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

But the worst harm is that inflicted on children forced at best to endure needless harassment and surveillance by family police agencies, at worst denied the chance to live with their own loving fathers and instead consigned to the chaos of foster care.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Jessica and Marty continue to provide temporary foster care for children in need in their community. Since becoming foster parents, they have cared for an eight-year-old girl and a seven and 18-month-old siblings and plan on continuing to care for kids in their community when there is a need.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in foster care. That’s what happened in Connecticut.) ● Invest in high-quality family defense, basic help to ease the worst stresses of poverty and safe, proven alternatives to foster care.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

By Kimberly Phillips Many young adults celebrate their 18 th and 21 st birthdays with presents and cake, but those in the foster care system might dread those milestones for the uncertainty they bring. If she failed, there was no place to fall. What we need is to change systemic things to make their lives easier.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

They’re dumped into institutions by family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) when they run out of foster homes because they take so many children needlessly. As she testified: “For children who do end up in foster care, we cannot allow them to grow up in cold facilities that act like kid prisons.”

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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 17, 2024

59 new parents received one-on-one support through our Healthy Families program, 22 “forever families ” were established through our foster care program, and critical housing and support services were providedfor youth in crisis, youth experiencing homelessness and young adultsaging out of the foster care system.

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