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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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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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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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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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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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Colin Gray was ordered to retrieve the other children, or they would be placed in foster care. There is no information from media reports about whether DCFS evaluated Colin Gray for his fitness to take care of his three children or to monitor their well-being in his care before closing the child welfare case.

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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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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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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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All For Kids

MARCH 13, 2024

The foster care system and adoption play pivotal roles in reshaping the lives of these children—it offers them the opportunity to thrive in loving and supportive families. To better grasp the distinct aspects of fostering a child and adopting a child, view these latest statistics that shed light on the difference.

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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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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into foster care.” There is something strange about this example.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The government will provide £44m for kinship and foster care in this week’s Budget, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced. The funding will enable up to 10 areas to test providing kinship carers with allowances to cover some of the costs of care, encouraging more family members or friends to come forward.

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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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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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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“We are also investing £27m to deliver a fostering recruitment and retention programme so foster care is available for more children.” Call for more urgent government action However, council and fostering leaders urged more and faster government action to tackle foster care shortages in the light of the Ofsted data.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

According to Virginia Public Media : Avula noted Virginia’s rate of placement with relatives is less than half of the national average — a statistic he said is skewed by the fact that local social services departments in the state prioritize informal placements with relatives before sending a child into the foster care system.

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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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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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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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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The result: A dramatic reduction in needless family surveillance and foster care with no compromise in safety. There’s a similar pattern when it comes to children forced into foster care. of foster children sent home returned to foster care. There are two standard measures of child safety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

McDonald was charting one of the nation’s early foster-care panics. Most of the time, those who set off foster-care panics, like most who work in the system itself, mean well but don’t know any better. Sometimes these panics are set off by misleading news coverage, sometimes by politicians.

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CO4Kids

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Back to Blogs News & Press New law helps relatives and family friends care for kids, providing an alternative to placement in foster care DENVER (September 23, 2024) – The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) celebrates a new state law that provides more resources for kinship caregivers of children in child welfare cases.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Foster care] cut risk by 1/2 As you read on, note that this is a study not of child abuse deaths, but of deaths due to diseases. We have to rush more infants into foster care – it’s the only way to save them from getting fatal diseases!” Here’s something he tweeted on Dec. No kidding. ● You don’t suppose … ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. Presumably this also would rule out a large proportion of those providing kinship foster care, since they tend to be grandparents. That takes care of “permanence.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

But before getting to what else Font got wrong, let’s look at the two things she got partially right: ● She’s right about the enormous emotional harm foster care inflicts on children. She’s even right that the more time a child spends in foster care the greater the risk of harm.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Consider: ● The mother, Annalinda Martinez, had grown up in foster care herself. But instead of connecting her family to housing, the state put her kids in foster care. The adoption fell apart, the children were thrown back into foster care, and Martinez has no idea where they are now, and whether they are OK.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. Many people associate KVC Kansas with foster care. Additionally, of course, safely preventing the need for foster care means less trauma and separation for families. KVC Kansas. Learn more here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Nearly 15% of Native American children, nearly 15% of Hispanic children and nearly 20% of Black children will be placed in foster care, according to the study. In fact, Arizona has been in foster-care panic mode for most of the past 20 years – a national record. times higher than the rate in New York City.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Sixto Cancel grew up in foster care, survived the experience and now runs Think of Us , an organization dedicated to changing the system that did him, and so many other children, so much harm. The former lawyer for the family policing agency continues: [Cancel] cites his bad experiences in foster care. …

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The foster/adoptive parents, who initially reported the child as missing, have been charged with murdering the child. Despite the pleas of relatives, Isabella’s siblings are still in foster care with strangers. We also know that abuse in foster care is widespread , and we know that agencies often turn a blind eye to such abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Let’s focus on the “good stuff”: If you happen to be a foster child in Grand Rapids Michigan you can get a free haircut! Another issue exalts the fact that one of the nation’s big residential McTreatment chains received “a grant of $7,250 to create a mentoring program for youth in foster care.” But all that is such a downer.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The New York Times takes a close look at President Biden’s proposed budget for “child welfare” in particular his proposal to increase federal reimbursement if a child is placed with relatives – kinship foster care – and decrease reimbursement if a child is forced into a group home or institution. And finally … ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

They hauled the family into court and threatened to throw the children into foster care. In fact, a major study found that even when children really are born with cocaine in their systems, such children still do better in their own homes than when placed in foster care. ● That is the real danger to children.

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