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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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Back to School Tips for Students in Out-of-Home Care

CO4Kids

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Back to School Tips for Students in Out-of-Home Care School’s back in session and the transition can be tough for students in out-of-home care, caregivers and others that support them. Students in foster care have the right to remain in their school of origin. Communicate.

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Colorado CASA seeking volunteers to support kids in foster care

CO4Kids

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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Foster Mom Works Around the Clock to Care for Medically Fragile Children

CO4Kids

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Foster Mom Works Around the Clock to Care for Medically Fragile Children Vera Garyeazon has a very busy schedule and often works around the clock to care for the medically fragile children in foster care who live in her home.

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Child welfare in Arizona: Don’t believe the spin from the agency where workers called themselves “professional kidnappers.”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. Since that time, we have made vast systemic improvements, including reducing entries into care and reducing our out-of-home care population by 24%.”

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Keeping Families Strong

Shelter, Inc

May is National Foster Care Month, and this year’s theme is Relative and Kin Connections: Keeping Families Strong. Did you know Shelter’s Foster Care Program works to reunite families whenever it’s in the youth’s best interest and that our foster families may be traditional or home-of-relative?

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. We started providing foster care case management services in Kansas in 1996.