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The Opioid Epidemic and Foster Care: The Opioid Epidemic’s Forgotten Victims

Relias

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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Child Protective Services in the District of Columbia: An alarming increase in incomplete investigations in FY2024

Child Welfare Monitor

The number of children entering foster care increased for the first time in over ten years. There was a drop in in-home case openings but a similar increase in foster care placements during the year. But the number of children being served in their homes decreased by 50 while the number in foster care increased by 49.

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Brittney Barros Briefs Congress on Foster Care Legislation

Michigan Social Work

Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care 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.

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A Helpful Guide to KVC’s Mental Health and Child Welfare Services in Kansas and Missouri

KVC

KVC’s expertise spans from preventative, educational services that are the least intensive way to help children and families, to community-based services like foster care 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.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Sept. 24, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in foster care. 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. ●

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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 foster care. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.

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Standard operating cruelty: When the family police steal more than Social Security checks

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. But as Prof. Consider the comments of Penn State Prof.

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