CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Kinship care is an arrangement in which children and youth who are unable to live with their biological parents are placed in the care of relatives, close family friends, or other people important in their lives instead of being placed in traditional foster care or group homes.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Last week, Virginia’s Director of Social Services, Danny Avula, gave a presentation to the state Commission on Youth. The upside of that is that it keeps our overall numbers of kids in formal foster care low,” Avula said. There’s a term for these kinds of placements – “hidden foster care” (of course).

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

County Departments of Human/Social Services will try to work with immigration enforcement officials to contact the detained parents to make a plan. If the family doesnt have a protection plan and there are no surrogate caregivers, this will prompt a referral to the County Department of Human/Services.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 13, 2025

will increase its ability to offer temporary shelter and services to youth in crisis, providing a crucial alternative to life on the streets or involvement with law enforcement and other systems. is the only agency in Illinois to provide comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The premise is that because of the “shortage,” children can’t see their parents while in foster care, and families don’t get the guidance they need to jump through all the hoops they must surmount to prove themselves worthy of getting their children back. Anybody see the problem here yet? Curts get an apartment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Alan Dettlaff, was invited by the Child Welfare League of America, a trade association whose members include agencies paid for each day they hold children in foster care, to write the forward for an issue of one of their journals. . ● A founder of the upEND Movement, Prof. Then CWLA refused to publish it. You can read it here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in foster care. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

” ‘My priorities will reflect the needs of kinship families’ Davis himself said: “I am honoured to be appointed as the first national kinship care ambassador in this country.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

. ● Writing for the libertarian Reason Foundation , Layal Bou Harfouch says: The current standard of care in U.S. The results of these tests are used as grounds for social service investigations that can lead to newborns being unjustly taken from parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Great news, Missouri parents: The state Department of Social Services says you are now free to smoke marijuana, as long as you’re away from the kids! – Louis Post-Dispatch : It’s foster parents who now have this official freedom. There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Staff know this underestimates the trauma of investigation and underestimates the even worse trauma of foster care. Though not mentioned in the report, it also underestimates the enormous risk of abuse in foster care itself.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Sarah Font, who actually has suggested that “aging out” of foster care with no home at all is better for older foster youth than reunification or guardianship with a relative – because while family might offer love, aging out offers money. Consider the comments of Penn State Prof.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

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 foster care, becoming a foster parent, and adoption. In addition, the cost of foster care adoption is typically significantly lower in this type of system.

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, in the American population of children, African Americans make up 15%, but they represent 33% of foster care children. Youth who identify as LGBTQ represent over 30% of those in foster care , compared with the 11.2% of children’s national population. Shelter’s executive director Carina H.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

but also a crucial requirement for sustaining our contracts with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).” COA Accreditation, a service of Social Current, is an independent, not-for-profit accreditor of the full continuum of community-based behavioral health care and social service organizations in the United States and Canada.

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

Another retired social worker to receive a BEM was Rebecca Chambers, who worked for over 30 years in charity Barnardo’s fostering service. She said she “loved” her job, particularly the opportunity to do direct work with children in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But whatever the reason, after years of marching in lockstep with the Miami Herald – ignoring wrongful removal and sometimes fomenting foster-care panic -- the Tampa Bay Times has discovered that maybe all those children don’t need to be in foster care after all!

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The more than 700 youth interviewed were participants in the CalYOUTH Study, which evaluated the impact of extending the foster care age limit from 18 to 21 on youth outcomes in early adulthood.

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

. “Our ambition is to redesign how we look after children and young people, and eliminating private profit from the care of children is a key component of this,” said Julie Morgan, the Welsh Government’s deputy minister for social services. ” Reliance on private sector.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

There are twice as many children in kinship care in the UK than there are in foster care, yet this type of care remains largely invisible – to the public and policymakers, but often to professionals too. By Dr Lucy Peake.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

They were afraid of social services,” a parent with disabilities (one of the groups most vulnerable to family policing), told The Colorado Sun. ● “When my kids were growing up, they weren’t afraid of the bogeyman. People don’t think about how traumatic these investigations are for kids.”

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Community Care

MAY 24, 2024

Complementing this, the bill would amend the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (‘the 2014 act’) to require councils, when placing a looked-after child in foster care or a children’s home, to use a not-for-profit provider unless this was inconsistent with the child’s wellbeing. .

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) agreed that this meant the likelihood of the policy being implemented in October 2025 was “quite low” Commenting on the Labour manifesto, the IFS was also critical of the lack of detail on its plan for a national care service.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

.” Fostering Network chief executive Kevin Williams welcomed the RCC proposals, but said: “We must learn the lessons from the past and make sure that any new regional structures enhance and improve local planning, commissioning and recruitment. “Overwhelmingly, local authorities and IFAs work well together.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Unaccompanied young people made up 21% of the children taken into care in 2022-23 (7,090 out of 33,000), more than double the proportion in 2020-21 (10%).

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

While many foster and other carers do not pay tax on the payments they receive from their provider for their role due to the so-called qualifying care relief (formerly ‘foster care relief’) scheme, the benefit this provides has been frozen for 20 years.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

.” Honours for directors past and present Norfolk council’s director of children’s services, Sara Tough, who guided the authority from a requires improvement rating from Ofsted in 2017 to good in 2022, was awarded an OBE for services to education and children’s social care.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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 foster care systems. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN What is the main role of a social worker? What skills does a social worker need?

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

.” A passion for social work His positive experience is one he shares with the social workers he oversees in Derby council as its strategic director of people, a role that encompasses the statutory positions of director of children’s services (DCS) and director of adult social services (DASS).

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My passion is to advocate for underserved and monolingual Latinx populations, undocumented individuals, and children involved in the mental health or foster care system. This scholarship will equip me to serve and give back to my community, and eventually become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

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 social service organizations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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 Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Katz did something simple.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Last week, they published a story about high turnover among caseworkers for the private agencies that oversee foster care in that city, and the enormous harm that does to children. A common misunderstanding is that the leading reason kids are taken into the foster care system is because of physical or sexual abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A document from the California Department of Social Services indicates the agency was appropriately appalled by the “ethics review.” An excellent story in The Imprint reveals that, after extensive consultation with an impressive and diverse group of people, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has pulled the plug.

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