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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 fostercare at worst. No, you cant fight trauma with trauma.
In her 2009 book, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare , Dorothy Roberts drew attention to the disproportional representation of Black children in fostercare and child welfare in general and helped make “racial disproportionality” a buzzword in the child welfare world.
● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in fostercare. But rarely children really do face horrific abuse in their own homes. The research arm of the Maine Legislature produced a series of reports on recent child abuse deaths.
KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed.
Records that have to be “admitted” into the database [but may not have been] include substanceabuse records, visitation records and medical records. There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of fostercare. WFMZ-TV reports that the county comptroller in Lehigh County, PA.
So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in fostercare on any given day -- is even worse. She said no.
Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or fostercare systems. This includes defending individuals’ rights and addressing issues such as poverty, mental health, domestic violence, disability rights and substanceabuse.
Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.
On August 24, 2024, the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) proudly announced in a press statement that it had reduced the number of children in out-of-home care by nearly half since 2018. Specifically, the number of children in fostercare had fallen from 9,171 in 2018 to 4,971 as of August 14, 2024.
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 substanceabuse. Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, was in jail at the time.
We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than fostercare or massive surveillance, its also safer. From KABC-TV, Los Angeles : A story about a civil lawsuit filed by victims of horrific abuse both in their own home and then in fostercare.
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