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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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. “We

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, its also safer. From KABC-TV, Los Angeles : A story about a civil lawsuit filed by victims of horrific abuse both in their own home and then in foster care.

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