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Shelter, Inc. Receives National Accreditation

Shelter, Inc

Organizations pursue accreditation to demonstrate the implementation of best practice standards in the field of human services. s programs, services, management, and administration. 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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Kinship Care Gets a Boost

Beyond Advocacy

With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. Now, more children will get the opportunity to live with relatives.

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Hawaii family police agency sinks to misrepresentation and blackmail - and that’s just how they treat the State Legislature!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 2, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Want to see how easy it is for the foster care system to become the ultimate middle-class entitlement – step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own? All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Octover 10, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. And here’s still another study showing that the best “preventive service” is cash.

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News Items – September 30, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Victor Armstrong is the first chief health equity officer at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Will Francis, executive director of NASW-TX, is a guest: [Audio] After A Decade Of Legal Scrutiny, Texas’ Foster Care System Is Still Failing To Keep Kids Safe. The Charlotte Observer.

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Child Welfare Updates: New Rule Regarding Kinship Placements

Social Work Blog

Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a final rule regarding licensing and approval standards for kinship placements. Title IV-E agencies are tribes and state agencies that utilize Title IV-E funds to provide foster care service. The rule went into effect on November 27, 2023.