Creative Play Therapist

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The Soultenders Child and Family Center, in collaboration with the Youth Empowerment Network, is hosting a donation drive to support youth impacted by the Eaton Canyon Fire, which devastated the community and destroyed 5,000 homes and schools. Marks School Altadena Children’s Center Soultenders Clients notebooks, pens, etc.)

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

I know children/youth who came home from school, and their parents never came home. School or childcare officials can contact the child or youths emergency contacts provided by the family during enrollment. Can teachers be listed as an emergency contact at a school if parents are not available/have been detained?

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care 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 foster care placement crisis? But this isn’t what foster care is for. Let’s rewind.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Shelter provides therapy to children and families in each of their programs, including those staying at its emergency shelters and transitional living homes, in foster care or enrolled in Shelter’s Healthy Families program. Many of them have never had an adult in their life who consistently makes them feel secure.”

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 9, 2025

UConn School of Social Work Faculty and PhD Students to Present at SSWR 2025 The 2025 Society for Social Work Research (SSWR) 29th Annual Conference takes place on January 15 - 19, 2025, in Seattle, Washington. Congratulations to the 14 faculty members and 11 PhD students who authored a total of 20 presentations slated for the Conference.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The reality is we are moving kids night to night, we’re driving kids across the state for one-night placements to get them to school, we’re putting bandages on situations.”… The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in foster care.

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Shelter, Inc

MAY 11, 2021

May being National Foster Care Month, I asked Erica Schultz, our Foster Care Licensing Specialist, what she would like to tell people about our programs. First, the goals of Shelter’s Foster Care Programs are different from adoption agencies. Honore has thrived with her foster family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Social Work and self-proclaimed “child welfare scholar” seeks to run from the fact that the system he’s done so much to build and maintain – the family policing system – has failed. That’s why you’re in foster care.” Professor Barth may not understand this. Emphasis added.]

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

By Kimberly Phillips Many young adults celebrate their 18 th and 21 st birthdays with presents and cake, but those in the foster care system might dread those milestones for the uncertainty they bring. If she failed, there was no place to fall. What we need is to change systemic things to make their lives easier.”

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Let’s focus on the “good stuff”: If you happen to be a foster child in Grand Rapids Michigan you can get a free haircut! That’s because “looking their best helps students feel their best as they head back to school.” But all that is such a downer. What’s striking is how monotonous these newsletters are.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

Part One deals with widespread abuse in foster care. It is the best examination Ive seen by any news organization into the horrors of hidden foster care. On the contrary, it spends at a rate above, possibly far above, the national average but it wastes the money on needless foster care.

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KVC

MAY 19, 2023

Nevertheless, I Persisted: Robin’s Inspiring Success Story When Robin was just three years old, her mother’s substance use led to her and her siblings being placed in foster care for their safety. Read how Robin took control of her destiny, choosing to defy the statistics about children in foster care rather than be defined by them.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. Many people associate KVC Kansas with foster care. Additionally, of course, safely preventing the need for foster care means less trauma and separation for families. KVC Kansas. Learn more here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Tarek Ismail of the City University of New York School of Law, rebutted them in this column for the New York Daily News. ? The story also mentions, in passing, another intriguing part of the proposal: A first effort to entice states to count how many children they force into “hidden foster care.” And finally … ?

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

KVC Health Systems’ largest subsidiary, KVC Kansas , has been a foster care case management provider on behalf of the Kansas Department for Children and Families since 1996. In this case, the data has been de-identified and will only be analyzed for children who are no longer in foster care. Learn more at www.kvc.org.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The algorithm doesn’t tell investigators when to tear children from the arms of their families and consign them to foster care; that’s left to humans. Robyn Powell of the University of Oklahoma School of Law and Prof. Sarah Lorr, co-director of the Disability and Civil Rights Clinic at Brooklyn Law School.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

In New York, it’s illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into foster care just because they “witnessed domestic violence” – typically a husband or boyfriend beating the child’s mother. In this case, the family police made 175 “visits” to the home and the children’s school over four years. said in court papers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

But its disturbing that the school that referred the mother to Together With Families even threatened to make such a call. And I have a blog post about whether this is what its going to take before we ever again see basic federal data about foster care: "Psst. The young people said they run because they want to go home.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2023

By Sue Coyle, MSW Every year, more than 20,000 young adults age out of the foster care system. They are between the ages of 18 and 21, some having chosen to voluntarily remain in care after 18. After all, says Judith Schagrin, LCSW-C, a public policy analyst in Baltimore, “These are our children.”

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Children’s Defense Fund

MARCH 25, 2025

Provide full tuition and cost coverage at Ohio universities and colleges to students who have experienced foster care. Prioritize anti-lunch-shaming policies to ensure no student is denied a hot meal at school. Allocate $4 million for an Early Head Start pilot program in rural and high-mortality areas.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Foster Mom Works Around the Clock to Care for Medically Fragile Children Vera Garyeazon has a very busy schedule and often works around the clock to care for the medically fragile children in foster care who live in her home.

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

CULTURALLY COMPETENT SUPPORT FOR BLACK CHILDREN Janie Porter Barrett founded the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, providing culturally relevant care and education to young Black girls. Ensuring that Black children in care are placed in environments that acknowledge and celebrate their cultural identity is crucial.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fong will be interviewed at the second of these two events sponsored by the City University of New York School of Law. Note that you need to register for each separately You can register for the first event here and the second event here.) ● The head of the family police agency in Missouri is bragging that they have reduced foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Nationwide, entries into foster care declined by five percent. In Kansas, entries into foster care also increased by five percent – but Kansas was worse than Missouri to begin with. The new data provide even more evidence that this didn’t happen. The new data provide even more evidence that this didn’t happen.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

NASW Senior Practice Associate, School Social Work and Child Welfare. Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted from Foster Care. Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care . By Cynthia Henderson, PhD, LICSW, LCSW-C. November 23rd marks National Adoption Day. Searching for Birth Relatives.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

S he describes her own experience of retaliation after she complained about one of the private foster care agencies with which ACS contracts, offers an overview of how “predictive analytics” makes things worse, and makes clear we need to dig deeper into how ACS is using it. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

The child welfare system—the assemblage of public and private child protection agencies, foster care, and preventive services—is a crucial part of the carceral machinery in Black communities. ? Tricia Stephens of the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Sixto Cancel grew up in foster care, survived the experience and now runs Think of Us , an organization dedicated to changing the system that did him, and so many other children, so much harm. The former lawyer for the family policing agency continues: [Cancel] cites his bad experiences in foster care. …

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the Philadelphia Inquirer , a former foster youth, Christina Sorenson, writes that Today, Pennsylvania faces an overcrowding crisis, but rather than imagining a different solution, or investing in legislation to ensure the safety of our youth currently placed, there are calls to build new facilities.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anna Arons of New York University School of Law, in which she summarized her landmark study “An Unintended Abolition.” What COVID changed – and the dogwhistling that followed First was just the shutdown of in-person schooling, which reduced the contact between children and this army of mandated reporters.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

A now-defunct publication that purported to advise journalists on how to cover child welfare actually said: “Do the fatality series” – with what seemed like the implication that it should be done the usual way: by scapegoating efforts to keep families together and setting off a foster-care panic.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Sarah Font is telling foster youth boils down to this: You can have a free college education – as long as you forego any chance that there will be a family cheering you on at graduation. After following issues involving foster care for decades, I’ve gotten used to the extent to which people in the system hate birth parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

Her experience in foster care was far worse. ? Dorothy Roberts has a message for some of our white liberal friends: It's really important for people to reject this myth that children in foster care are there because their parents abused them. And the ABA Journal has more about the “schools” and their legacy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Hey, remember when New York City schools and the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, promised that this year they wouldn’t traumatize children and families by sending caseworkers to investigate them on “educational neglect” charges just because they felt it was still unsafe to send them to in-person classes?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 2, 2022

On the other hand, another in a long line of studies suggests it may reduce foster care entries. The idea is that reports of concern that do not rise to the level of abuse or neglect would come to the CME from schools or child care centers, law enforcement officials or the community. The effort is probably sincere.

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