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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in foster care. But rarely children really do face horrific abuse in their own homes. The research arm of the Maine Legislature produced a series of reports on recent child abuse deaths.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Records that have to be “admitted” into the database [but may not have been] include substance abuse records, visitation records and medical records. There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of foster care. to tell young people about it. ●

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

We soon learned that the little girl, who was blind in one eye, had first been removed from Sorey at the age of two months by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) due to Sorey’s substance abuse. Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, was in jail at the time.

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