KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

child welfare services are provided or managed by the government agency in each state. These professionals work with individuals, families, schools, universities, nonprofit agencies, corporations, hospitals and government agencies. Social workers do NOT remove children from their homes. In the U.S.,

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The Child Welfare League (CWLA), in written testimony submitted to the SFC, added that residential services are “a small but important part of the full array of services” that must be available to meet children’s mental health needs.” ” As evidence, the report cites a 2013 report that showed 28.8

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

For as long as I’ve been following family policing – and that’s more than 45 years now - I’ve been reading stories exposing the horrors inflicted on children forced to endure days, sometimes months in makeshift placements such as family policing agency offices, hotels, hospital wards, jails – even parked cars.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services. Apparently she Googled us.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Yet it almost never is challenged by journalists reporting on child welfare. The story in question is about the fact that foster youth are trapped in psychiatric hospitals and juvenile jails because the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has no place to put them. By definition, that is bad journalism.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

In Los Angeles County, WitnessLA begins a multi-part in-depth series on the failure of the child welfare surveillance state with a look at battered mothers afraid to seek help because of the entirely justified fear that the family police might take away their children. NPR and The Marshall Project exposed the practice in 2021.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

There are currently 15 bills under consideration by a major House of Representatives subcommittee that could result in long-term, permanent telehealth solutions to make healthcare accessible from home for those who are not easily able to go to a doctor’s office or hospital.

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