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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.
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.
Roberts’ interview with Boston Review. 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!)
Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. Vermont’s humanservices agency continued to send teens there — even after the incidents. Not only for me personally, but for all the people, especially Black women, who’ve been devalued in these systems.”
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.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of HumanServices, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution.
Department of Health and HumanServices. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. She would move into fostercare, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. At least 45 kids died of abuse or neglect in North Carolina in 2021, according to the U.S. Sarah Font. Why had this happened?
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, it’s also safer. More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation.
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.
Department of HumanServices, went to great lengths to spin the results and direct readers toward the spin instead of the reviews themselves. Though generally the reviews were favorable, the reviewers’ concerns were so serious that the agency that commissioned the reviews, the Allegheny County, Pa., That’s hardly nothing.
At almost three years old, and after two straight years in fostercare with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. It would bar school districts and Health and HumanServices from investigating educational neglect in a homeschool setting.
Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease fostercare caseloads and refer families to community supports.
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. Vermonts humanservices agency continued to send teens there even after the incidents.
wound up with the foster parents long enough for their supporters to claim those foster parents are “the only family she’s ever known.” We don’t know why, but we do know this: An evaluation from the Oregon Department of HumanServices, described the child as “white – no cultural issues.” Yet somehow, A.N.
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