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The fundamental misconception at the heart of the Family First Act

Child Welfare Monitor

States have been hard-put to devise plans for implementing the new services because the bill was designed to fix a problem that did not exist–the alleged absence of child welfare services designed to help families stay together. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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With Your Support, We Accomplished So Much in Child Welfare Last Year!

Shelter, Inc

having received a Medicaid contract allowing our team of trained experts to provide free mental health services to children and families in our care. The post With Your Support, We Accomplished So Much in Child Welfare Last Year! Our impact will be felt even more deeply with Shelter, Inc. Our volunteer force is strong!

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In child welfare, where do ethics reviews come from?

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

.” 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 foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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From the people who brought you AFST: The most dangerous "child welfare" algorithm yet

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun. And sure enough, the developers say, it works! How do they know? Not a lot of money either, since we know that remarkably small amounts of cash are enough to significantly reduce what family police agencies call “neglect.”

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As foster care removals plummet, where’s the promised help for families?

Child Welfare Monitor

Both require case management, but instead of the cost of room and board for foster youth, providing in-home services usually involve referring parents to mental health and drug treatment services often funded by Medicaid or paying for parenting support programs that cost less than foster care. (Of percent of the national total.

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MACPAC Supports Study of Ensuring Health Care Access for Youth in the Child Welfare System

University of Connecticut

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.