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The biggest problem with what should properly be called the family policing system is it does enormous harm to children by tearing them needlessly from everyone they know and love and/or putting their families under an onerous regime of surveillance. That led to the child being thrown into fostercare.
Councils are referring more children from residential to fostercare, independent fostering agencies (IFAs) have reported. Children making significant progress in residential care due to effective therapeutic interventions, making them ready and willing to move to a family-like setting.
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in fostercare. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? She is dangerously wrong.
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 fostercare for decades, I’ve gotten used to the extent to which people in the system hate birth parents.
As Sankaran and Church point out: any public reporting of the number of adopted children who once again enter fostercare is likely an underestimate. Even with these limited data, a recent study found that more than 66,000 adopted children ended up back in fostercare between 2008 to 2020, an average of 12 a day.
It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in fostercare are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias.
They think they’re going to be working with families, helping families to engage in services, to be self-sufficient, to move on to higher education,” Everett said. The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in fostercare. So they quit.
Even if they know that can do enormous harm, they may feel obligated to do it because they are mandated reporters. Because that’s what the adverse childhood experience of a child abuse investigation is really all about (except, of course, the toxic environment would be fostercare, not a carcinogen factory).
I also expressed the hope that we would see more stories about such families and more self-reflection within the system and in journalism. A dirty home means you’re neglecting your children – so they wind up in fostercare. For more than half of all Black children, a child abuse investigation will be part of their childhoods.
They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities. She’s even part of a group that rushed to defend a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor beloved by Tucker Carlson.
New resource ● While we continue to wait for the federal government to put out the annual AFCARS report, its official fostercare statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022, The Imprint has released its own survey , covering the year ending March 31, 2023. The Imprint survey does ask some questions AFCARS doesn’t.
Educator : Social workers educate clients about resources, coping strategies, and life skills to enhance their well-being and self-sufficiency. Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or fostercare systems.
Here’s what they write: Some may argue that because all harm indicators included here (e.g., Two of them, Sarah Font and Emily Putnam-Hornstein, are part of a group that did indeed send a letter – a letter rushing to the defense of a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor who pals around with Tucker Carlson. On the contrary.
A lack of oversight caused by frequent changes of social worker led to a toddler suffering significant harm, a case review has found. Community Care Inform Children subscribers can improve their skills and knowledge on neglect by accessing our knowledge and practice hub on the topic , last updated in 2021. Improve your neglect skills.
“But a group of mothers, attorneys, and other advocates who know the fostercare system from the inside saw things differently,” Hurley writes in a just-published follow-up story for The New Republic. But in the meantime, the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth has done all sorts of harm to children. Emphasis added] ?
Carers felt they were assumed to be guilty, undervalued and ostracised from the team around the child, said the charity, in a report analysing findings from its 2021 State of the Nation FosterCare. In the instances where the children in fostercare were removed, 78% of the allegations were deemed unfounded or unsubstantiated.
One report revealed that this support and acceptance is associated with greater self-esteem, social support, general health status, less depression, less substance abuse and less suicidal ideation and behaviors among LGBTQIA+ youth. Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.
Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. Oregons governor wants to loosen regulations curing abuse in fostercare because they cant think of any other way to deal with a so-called shortage of placements.
More than a decade ago I first wrote about how states use federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds – which are supposed to help poor people become self-sufficient – to investigate those same poor people and take away their children. She would move into fostercare, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail.
If you take money from a federal program meant to help poor people become self-sufficient and spend it instead on investigating those families when their poverty is confused with neglect – and on paying middle-class foster parents – what do you call it? Yes, family policing agencies really do this.
Here are the most common types of child abuse: Emotional abuse: Mental or emotional abuse typically aims to impact a child’s well-being, self-esteem and self-worth. Physical injuries without an explanation or with an unconvincing story about its occurrence may indicate intentional harm to a child. Behavioral changes.
This scholarship was established in memory of Donna Millette-Fridge by the School of Social Work in recognition of her commitment to helping the mentally ill become self-sufficient. My plan is continuing to work in the group setting and IOP services, specifically with individuals who are experiencing self-harm, depression and anxiety.
Readers are invited to practice self-care while navigating this content and to consider reading the findings with a group to engage in collective reflection. Tyrone Howard et al, Beyond Blind Removal: Color Consciousness and Anti-Racism in Los Angeles County Child Welfare. million times. million times.
could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in fostercare. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. That makes the computer-generated risk score more like a self-fulfilling prophecy than an actual prediction. Anthony Avalos. Gabriel Fernandez. Noah Cuatro.
In a paragraph otherwise notable only for its self-pity, DiLorenzo writes: After four decades of service in child welfare, I thought I had read and heard just about every disparaging thing possible from the external critics of our work. But more important: You heard the man! We decide your family’s fate! And most recently this.
Self-proclaimed liberal Elizabeth Bartholet wanted to force every pregnant woman to admit a spy into her living room from pregnancy until the child was preschool age. Bartholet doesn’t say if women would have to self-report their pregnancies or if their doctors or maybe their neighbors would turn them in.) Image created by openart.ai
But while they’re making themselves media stars, their statements fan the flames of foster-care panic , encouraging more needless removal, doing enormous harm to the children needlessly removed, and overloading the system – making it even more likely that the next child in real danger will be missed.
On August 24, 2024, the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) proudly announced in a press statement that it had reduced the number of children in out-of-home care by nearly half since 2018. Specifically, the number of children in fostercare had fallen from 9,171 in 2018 to 4,971 as of August 14, 2024.
The number of mainstream fostercare households in England has fallen by 10% over the past three years, despite a rising care population, official figures have shown. The number of deregistrations was 4,820 in 2023-24, with 4,280 households leaving fostering altogether during the year, down from 4,570 in 2022-23.
● Dr. Sharon McDaniel, a pioneer in doing kinship fostercare the right way, speaks out about the enormous harm of doing it the wrong way – through the subterfuge known as “hidden fostercare.” They’re suing Riverside County and the private agency that oversaw their 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.
Part one of NCCPRs news and commentary year in review for 2024 Tomorrow: Part two looks at some of 2024s finest journalism exploring wrongful removal and other harms to children caused by our current system of family policing. Oh, and care to guess where the director of DCFS during most of this time used to work?
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