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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 16, 2023
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 foster care. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.
Child Welfare Monitor
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Sometime in the early years of the current century, a group of powerful advocates who thought that too many children were being placed in foster care 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.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2023
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 foster care, 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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 25, 2024
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 29, 2023
Great news, Missouri parents: The state Department of Social Services says you are now free to smoke marijuana, as long as you’re away from the kids! – Louis Post-Dispatch : It’s foster parents who now have this official freedom. There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of foster care.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2024
A bill that would have barred both was vetoed by Newsom last year.) ● He also signed a bill concerning residential treatment, The Imprint reports the new law requires the state Department of Social Services to publicly report how often and why children have been physically restrained or sent to seclusion.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. Sarah Font. she wondered.
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