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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The other is if they try to pass off official figures about abuse in foster care as bearing any resemblance to reality. States typically claim that, in any given year, fewer than one percent of foster youth are abused or neglected in foster care. That doesn’t even count foster youth abusing each other.

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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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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into foster care.” There is something strange about this example.

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A new book unsettles assumptions about “child welfare” foster care and adoption

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

See also: The review in The New Yorker The review in Publisher’s Weekly Asgarian’s interview with the Los Angeles Times And after that, you can sign up for Asgarian’s April 6 book talk with the upEND Movement at the University of Houston (it’s both in person and livestreamed). Emphasis added.]

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Colorado CASA seeking volunteers to support kids in foster care

CO4Kids

To become a CASA a volunteer must be at least 21 years old and complete a background check and interview process. Consider becoming a treatment or therapeutic foster parent. Read the Article The post Colorado CASA seeking volunteers to support kids in foster care appeared first on CO4Kids.

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“They’re not your children anymore.” Notes on news coverage of a landmark lawsuit

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

That is false and it's actually dangerous for children because it fosters and perpetuates a culture of ACS using these invasive and distressing and degrading tactics. You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1.

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.