Shelter, Inc

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Shelter is proud to announce a $2,000,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to partner with Let It Be Us for a new Emergency Foster Care Program. However, it may take days or even weeks to match the child with the right foster home.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

November 23rd marks National Adoption Day. In 1976, Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts decided to celebrate adoption for seven days in his state. Eight years later, President Ronald Regan expanding the observance to becoming National Adoption Week. On November 23, the month’s event culminates with National Adoption Day.

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Famcare

AUGUST 25, 2022

With over 400,000 children in foster care and over 100,000 adoptable children in the United States, we are passionate about improving the adoption process with the right social services software.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Ariel Sellers, as she was known before her adoption, was reported missing by her foster/adoptive parents. Ultimately, they adopted her and changed her name. The foster/adoptive parents, who initially reported the child as missing, have been charged with murdering the child. Honolulu police dept.

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National Casa Gal

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Soronen, who currently serves on the National CASA/GAL Association for Children Board of Trustees, sat down with National CASA/GAL during National Adoption Month to talk about kinship care adoption and the importance of nurturing family connections for children in foster care.

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Shelter, Inc

MAY 11, 2021

May being National Foster Care Month, I asked Erica Schultz, our Foster Care Licensing Specialist, what she would like to tell people about our programs. First, the goals of Shelter’s Foster Care Programs are different from adoption agencies. Adoption is a forever commitment.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 12, 2022

to Recruit Homes for the Emergency Foster Care Program. Children in foster care face many challenges. One of the biggest challenges is the disruption they experience when they have to leave the home where they’ve been living, whether with biological or foster family. Let It Be Us is Partnering with Shelter Inc.

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Similarly, “permanency” sounds like permanence – but often it is not; not when it is defined as adoption and only adoption. As I discussed in a previous post, the worst part of Font’s “report” is what it says about her attitude toward older foster youth – she seems to think they need money more than love.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Fostering is just one of many ways to help children in crisis, so here are seven other ways you can help a child in foster care: 1. Children in foster care have likely experienced abuse, neglect, or some type of family trauma. Provide Respite Care . Mentor a Teen . 27% less likely to start drinking.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The strategy provides an important opportunity to raise the profile of kinship care and it does make some welcome steps forward,” said chief executive Cathy Ashley. “However, we are concerned that the strategy falls victim to the same timid ambitions that are holding back the government’s wider plans for children’s social care.”

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

KVC Health Systems’ largest subsidiary, KVC Kansas , has been a foster care case management provider on behalf of the Kansas Department for Children and Families since 1996. In this case, the data has been de-identified and will only be analyzed for children who are no longer in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Tomorrow, on “National Adoption Day, who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Sarah Font is telling foster youth boils down to this: You can have a free college education – as long as you forego any chance that there will be a family cheering you on at graduation. After following issues involving foster care for decades, I’ve gotten used to the extent to which people in the system hate birth parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. And they commissioned a poll from Gallup , which appears to have been geared toward encouraging more Black families to foster and adopt. But there is.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Remember the children who were torn from their parents and thrown into foster care because the parents committed the crime of Driving While Black? She writes: In Virginia, one issue that contributes to poor outcomes for children in foster care is the extremely poor system of legal representation for parents of children in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

At long last the federal government has released state and national foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022. The snapshot number of children in foster care on any given day, also declined, from 392,000 on Sept. When we curb needless foster care, children get safer!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

That false narrative, pushed hardest by those who hate birth parents (and yes, that’s the right word) claims that only adoption guarantees a truly permanent home for a child removed from her or his parents. Partly that’s because adoptions sometimes fail. They also take less time to achieve than adoptions.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These figures correlate with the government’s children looked after statistics for March 2020, which showed that the proportion of children in foster care not with a relative or friend had decreased to 57% from 60% in 2018. Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s national director for social care, said the figures painted a “bleak picture”.

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Swhelper

JANUARY 11, 2023

After helplessly watching her sister try to navigate the international adoption process, Felicia Curcuru launched Binti in an effort to reinvent foster care and adoption. Manuel Stoilov. Since the launch of the company in 2017, Binti has expanded its network to over 190 agencies across 26 states in the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Kelley 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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Its key measures prior to RCC implementation are the existing programme to invest £259m in building children’s homes, from 2022-25, and a £27m increase for foster care recruitment and retention, over the next two years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In 2024, adoptive parents in Kentucky couldn’t handle the behavior problems of their 15-year-old daughter. They parked her in foster care while waiting to institutionalize her. He ran away from the institution and drowned. Unable to afford the therapy she needed they turned to the state for help.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

According to CR: DCS has dramatically reduced its historical over-reliance on non-family institutional placements … The percentage of Tennessee children in foster care placed with families has risen and has been maintained at approximately 88 percent. So it’s no wonder CR’s claims of success don’t always hold up well. Not anymore.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It will if some lawmakers attacking kinship foster care get their way A few months ago on this blog, I posed a hypothetical question to some folks in Oregon. Suppose they took really good care of your child. Or it’s months before relatives even find out the child is in foster care. Are you sure? Emphasis added.]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. Of all the cases of children forced into Massachusetts foster care in 2021, 63% did not even involve an allegation of substance use.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Let’s focus on the “good stuff”: If you happen to be a foster child in Grand Rapids Michigan you can get a free haircut! Another issue exalts the fact that one of the nation’s big residential McTreatment chains received “a grant of $7,250 to create a mentoring program for youth in foster care.” But all that is such a downer.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So they used a blackmail placement – aka hidden foster care. The legislation would bar family police agencies from forcing parents to pay part of the cost of their children’s foster care. In the Albany Times Union leaders of an adoptive and foster parents group explain why ransom should be abolished. ●

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Their decision to care for a child is often made at times of family crisis, triggering heightened stress and anxiety, with little planning or preparation. They have not made a proactive choice to become a foster carer or adopter, but find themselves in a situation, not of their own choosing, but wishing to safeguard a child they love.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They cited leaders’ decision to increase social worker numbers – including by creating a new looked-after children team and creating a dedicated independent reviewing officer post for care leavers – despite funding constraints. Family safeguarding model ‘replicable and effective’ in cutting care numbers and protection plans.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The New York Times takes a close look at President Biden’s proposed budget for “child welfare” in particular his proposal to increase federal reimbursement if a child is placed with relatives – kinship foster care – and decrease reimbursement if a child is forced into a group home or institution. And finally … ?

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

He shared stories about his experiences being homeless, couch surfing, and moving from one foster care placement to the next until he eventually connected with family. Children in kinship care are disproportionately kids of color, most often poor and living in rural communities.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. They move to change the case goal for the children from reunification to adoption. Dad must jump through the usual hoops, but, as is so often the case, it’s never enough.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Or, as bad or worse, it might go to an outfit like Chapin Hall (see the item below about whitewashing abuse in foster care). There are horrifying details about the sexual assault of two young teenagers in Texas foster care. . That's certainly a step forward. One is 16, the other 13.

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