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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.
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.
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.
● 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.
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.
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.
● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of fostercare.
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I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To Vermont’s humanservices agency continued to send teens there — even after the incidents.
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.
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Department of Health and HumanServices, Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2018 The State Assembly holds a hearing Oct. Source: U.S. But Commissioner Dannhauser has never publicly called for the Legislature to simply give ACS the power to screen out false reports sent to his agency by the OCFS hotline.
A wise, nurturing community-run humanservices system, working with the whole family, easily could have dealt with that; there were those huge reserves of love to work with. The school was established in 1909 by the founder of the chocolate company. The school has an endowment of $17 billion – yes billion.
Department of Health and HumanServices. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Janell, thrilled to avoid reading time, trotted off to the school office. She would move into fostercare, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. Sarah Font. But she did not see her mother.
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. Azar said, Y.A.
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.
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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.
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