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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 fostercare. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and fostercare systems became completely overwhelmed.
The number of children entering fostercare increased for the first time in over ten years. There was a drop in in-home case openings but a similar increase in fostercare placements during the year. But the number of children being served in their homes decreased by 50 while the number in fostercare increased by 49.
Sometime in the early years of the current century, a group of powerful advocates who thought that too many children were being placed in fostercare 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.
Back to Blogs News & Press CDHS increases safe access to services for survivors of domestic violence October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month DENVER (Oct. In September 2022, the Office of Child Support Services within the U.S. Between Feb.
The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in fostercare. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.
Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in FosterCare Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM.
As I wrote at the time: Why did [the Oregon Department of HumanServices] allow all this state-sanctioned child abuse for all this time? And the reason for that is not because there are too few foster parents. When a child is abused in fostercare, the abuser is not only the individual who committed the abuse.
Back to Blogs News & Press New law helps relatives and family friends care for kids, providing an alternative to placement in fostercare DENVER (September 23, 2024) – The Colorado Department of HumanServices (CDHS) celebrates a new state law that provides more resources for kinship caregivers of children in child welfare cases.
For the Donlins, their nightmare at the hands of the family police, known in Iowa as the Department of HumanServices, consisted of eight months of hypersurveillance and an attempt to take away their young children. They hauled the family into court and threatened to throw the children into fostercare.
Now, let’s see if Senator Soundbite tries to undermine the progress The Oregonian has a story about the decline in fostercare numbers in that state – and how it’s not due to more child abuse supposedly being hidden due to COVID lockdowns. That will start a foster-care panic, another surge in needless removals of children.
But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in fostercare – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. Presumably this also would rule out a large proportion of those providing kinship fostercare, since they tend to be grandparents. That takes care of “permanence.” Similarly, the U.S.
It’s not a full-scale class-action lawsuit, but it’s a good start: Children’s Rights is representing the Minneapolis NAACP in a formal complaint to the federal Department of Health and HumanServices Office of Civil Rights. For example, in Minnesota Black children are twice as likely to be thrown into fostercare as white children.
● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in fostercare. This story from The Press-Enterprise in Riverside describes a case in California in which that happened – and then the children faced horrific abuse in a foster home overseen by a private agency. ●
And, precisely because most cases we think of when we hear the words “child abuse” are nothing like the horror stories and far more like the case of Logan Marr, the data show that, almost always, family preservation is safer than fostercare. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.
KVC’s expertise spans from preventative, educational services that are the least intensive way to help children and families, to community-based services like fostercare that fall in the middle of the continuum, to high-end, acute inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment which is the most intensive way of helping a person in crisis.
The harms of removal and sometimes also fostercare can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.
.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter fostercare in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family.
● Want to see how easy it is for the fostercare system to become the ultimate middle-class entitlement – step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own? All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled.
Alan Dettlaff, was invited by the Child Welfare League of America, a trade association whose members include agencies paid for each day they hold children in fostercare, to write the forward for an issue of one of their journals. And here’s still another study showing that the best “preventive service” is cash.
Wood has worked in the humanservices and social work field for about 30 years, primarily in residential treatment, group home, and fostercare environments. When chapter rules required her to take a year off from serving, she decided to run for the national board of directors.
And letting children remember their birth parents and acknowledging the love between them may make things uncomfortable for the people for whom the system is designed: Overwhelmingly middle-class disproportionately white foster and adoptive parents. Consider the comments of Penn State Prof.
They parked her in fostercare while waiting to institutionalize her. She ran away. Do I really have to tell you what happened next? Check out the stories form WDRB-TV in Lexington and WLKY in Louisville.
Record numbers of children are trapped in fostercare in Maine. Because the lawsuits, settlements and verdicts against the Department of HumanServices for botching their life-and-death job just keep piling up. In other words: everyone is fair game - except us! Thank you for publishing this dissent from NCCPR.
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in fostercare. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.
In Arizona, for example, nearly every impoverished Black child will be subjected to a child abuse investigation and 20% will be forced into fostercare. And Younge never could have done this to families had the Philadelphia Department of HumanServices not harassed the families and brought them before her in the first place.
They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of HumanServices uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities. Justice Department is asking the same question. … Yes, they really do that.) The Imprint has a round-up of legislative changes. ●
The convening leaders included Rebecca Jones Gaston, the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families commissioner at the Administration for Children and Families within the Department of Health and HumanServices (HHS). Children in kinship care are disproportionately kids of color, most often poor and living in rural communities.
and The Harbour Partner Under Federal Grant to Expand Emergency Shelter Services Arlington Heights, IL, January 13, 2025 Shelter, Inc. is excited to announce its partnership with The Harbour, a Park Ridge-based organization, to expand emergency shelter services for at-risk youth in suburban Cook County. Shelter Inc.
There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of fostercare. In a state that tears apart families at a rate 70% above the national average, probably quite a few. But, NCCPR Board Member Ruth White writes in The Imprint, it took another law just to force caseworkers in Washington, D.C.
The National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents (NTDC) was funded through a five-year cooperative agreement with the Department of Health and HumanServices, Administration for Children and Families, and Children’s Bureau.
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Roberts, Kassandra Frederique, executive director of Drug Policy Alliance and Dr. Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor ; (the book the Allegheny County Department of HumanServices hopes you will never read!)
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As a result, everyone from the state’s probate judges to the Michigan Department of Health and HumanServices pursue solutions that will make things worse. In Michigan, 17 percent of children were thrown into fostercare because their parents lacked adequate housing — that’s more than were taken because of physical abuse.
The expanded KVC Missouri team will serve thousands of families each year, offering preventative family strengthening services, fostercare , children’s mental health treatment, educational academies, and other services from 20 locations including Kansas City, St. Louis, and Springfield. Learn more at www.kvcmissouri.org.
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So, of course, leave it to the governor and his humanservices leadership team to propose doubling down on their failed approach. But it was Massachusetts’ fanaticism about tearing apart families that made that tragedy more likely in the first place.
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For those seeking expert guidance, the Colorado Implementation Science Unit (CISU) at the Colorado Department of HumanServices is a valuable resource. They help you assess the nuances of your community and make thoughtful adjustments to existing programs without compromising the integrity of the evidence.
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