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Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in fostercare, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. “We
.” 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 fostercare funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.
A “scholar” who insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare writes a “predictive analytics” algorithm for the State of California. Somehow, the contract to write a so-called “independent ethics review” of the algorithm is given to another “scholar” who also insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare.
If this all weren’t so dangerous the answer would be laugh-out-loud funny: They know it works, they say, not because the algorithm was good at predicting actual child abuse, but because, in many cases, it was good at predicting whether a child would wind up in fostercare! And sure enough, the developers say, it works!
In recent years, some Kansas children in fostercare have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. What’s behind this national fostercare placement crisis? But this isn’t what fostercare is for.
59 new parents received one-on-one support through our Healthy Families program, 22 “forever families ” were established through our fostercare program, and critical housing and support services were providedfor youth in crisis, youth experiencing homelessness and young adultsaging out of the fostercare system.
Expand Medicaid: Less “neglect.” Once again the suffering of poor people will enrich some child welfare establishment group or other. Or, as bad or worse, it might go to an outfit like Chapin Hall (see the item below about whitewashing abuse in fostercare). Increase SNAP benefits: Less “neglect.” One is 16, the other 13.
Mathematica and Innovations Institute have partnered to advance policymakers’ understanding of how Medicaid and child welfare agencies ensure youth in the child welfare system receive access to health care. Read more about Innovations Institute.
According to a Boston Globe investigation : … in the vast majority of states, the deaths of babies from Medicaid families are more likely to be attributed to suspected accidental suffocation or listed as needing more investigation - and in some states, by sizable margins. They want to “decriminalize being in fostercare.”
That’s the current name of a child welfare trade association that co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. Yet none of the recent trips to the reputation laundry from child welfare establishment groups includes support for any proposal that would reduce their power.
. ● In words and pictures, The Imprint documents an oral history project that’s also an oral healing project for survivors of the “boarding schools’ that were part of the systematic attempt by “child welfare” systems to effectively eradicate Native America. ● The Imprint and The Hill have stories.
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Americas massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. Thats why weve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove anything. Theyre suing Riverside County and the private agency that oversaw their fostercare.
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