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How the Right Social Services Software Can Improve the Adoption Process

Famcare

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 news and commentary round-up, week ending August 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? Great news, Missouri parents: The state Department of Social Services says you are now free to smoke marijuana, as long as you’re away from the kids! – Louis Post-Dispatch : It’s foster parents who now have this official freedom.

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What Sets Our Case Management Platform Apart?

Famcare

FAMCare, an innovative and creative, human services-focused. Knowing the reasons that set it apart highlights the advantages it offers those individuals — the healthcare providers, caseworkers, foster care parents and countless others — who directly influence and care for the most vulnerable population in the country — children.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, it’s also safer. That may help explain how a tragedy like this death in foster care could occur. ● 27 of this year. .

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. Sarah Font. she wondered.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 15, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● In Hawaii, Honolulu Civil Beat reports, The estate of a 6-year-old Waimanalo girl who died from alleged abuse in perhaps the most notorious child welfare cases in recent Hawaii history is suing her adoptive parents and the state for gross negligence. Her adoptive parents, Isaac and Lehua Kalua, have been charged with murder.

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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.