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20 Success Stories: Mental Health, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption Support Transform Lives

KVC

We celebrate the inspiring ways children and adults have healed from serious challenges like strained family relationships, mental health needs, addiction, loneliness and hopelessness. Teen Brother and Sister Follow Different Paths After Foster Care. We’re So Thankful We Said Yes to Fostering Teens!’:

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Power, privilege, and passing judgment in “child welfare”: The Massachusetts “Child Advocate” gets it wrong again

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. Sorey’s fight for her daughter in this excellent story from The Boston Globe.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 6, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

--Another group afraid to seek help because of justified fear of the family police is pregnant women with substance use issues, As NBC News reports: That's why a growing number of experts — including maternal/fetal specialists, federal health officials and people who treat addiction — are calling for changes to the laws. "We