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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, weeks ending Nov. 28, 2023

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Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. One of those two things has now prompted the Biden Administration to propose regulations to curb this practice. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. Sarah Font.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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 foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

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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.