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The report includes interviews with parents, family defenders, and more than 50 ACS employees from frontline caseworkers to top staff. Staff know this underestimates the trauma of investigation and underestimates the even worse trauma of fostercare. What’s in the report It’s easy to see why Hansell was so embarrassed.
An outside source, like an adoption counselor, can help you better grasp all that goes into the adoption process, and can teach you about the benefits of fostercare, becoming a foster parent, and adoption. In addition, the cost of fostercare adoption is typically significantly lower in this type of system.
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My current internship has provided me with so many opportunities to meet with community partners, learn how to use anticipatory empathy, and practice motivational interviewing. When I graduate next May, I believe this program will have prepared me well enough to begin my journey as a future clinical social worker.
First, as Vermont Public reports, the lawsuit alleges that the state Department for Children and Families maintains a secret so-called high-risk pregnancy calendar to regularly monitor pregnant Vermonters deemed unsuitable for parenthood, using confidential information illegally obtained from medical providers and socialservice organizations.
Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of SocialServices was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Now let’s flash forward to 1989.
As noted in yesterday’s post, about Putnam-Hornstein’s work in California, the California Department of SocialServices declared that The Department believes that “universal-level risk stratification” is unethical and has no intention to use it now or in the future. At that point three things happen: ?
Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. Dorothy Roberts has received a MacArthur Fellowship -- the awards that are commonly known as “genius grants.” Not only for me personally, but for all the people, especially Black women, who’ve been devalued in these systems.”
It deters families from seeking needed assistance and weakens the capacity of teachers, doctors, and socialservice workers to nurture children’s well-being. So many of the parents I interviewed for this story have none of these luxuries. ?
Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, socialservices officials come under fire. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. She would move into fostercare, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. Sarah Font. Why had this happened?
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 fostercare.” There is something strange about this example.
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, it’s also safer. More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation.
Kansas has its own special, ugly little version of hidden fostercare. I have a blog post on How the Kansas child welfare agency makes hundreds of foster children disappear. He was very close to his siblings, those who knew him said, and a close friend to many kids in fostercare.
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.
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