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A Helpful Guide to KVC’s Mental Health and Child Welfare Services in Kansas and Missouri

KVC

Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is.

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The failure of the child welfare McLawsuits, Part One

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan School of Law says the best thing CR could do would be to get out. If they were, odds are the number of children reported as entering foster care would nearly triple.

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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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NCCPR news and commentary round-up – special Harm of ASFA edition

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Saturday marked a tragic milestone – the 25 th anniversary of a law that has harmed millions of children, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Sarah Katz, director of the Family Law Litigation Clinic at Temple University, in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “A federal law has been destroying families for 25 years.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 20, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In that article, Alexandra Travis writes about her own experience with family destruction and then asks: Tell me, if you knew our story, would you still advocate so fiercely for adoption and termination? One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Added Prof.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 20, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Robert Latham, associate director at the Children & Youth Law Clinic of the University of Miami Law School, who wrote this on his excellent Blog: And lest you think this law has no teeth, the law prevents admission of any statement made by a parent without the notice being given. So we turn for analysis to Prof.

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Children with Parents Behind Bars

Beyond Advocacy

It had been the subject of her dissertation titled In the Best Interest of the Family: The Outcomes of Children in Foster Care with an Incarcerated Parent and the Adverse Implications of the Adoptions and Safe Families Act. I have known Dr. Pettus since her days on the Brown School at Washington University in St.