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CDHS increases safe access to services for survivors of domestic violence

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Back to Blogs News & Press CDHS increases safe access to services for survivors of domestic violence October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month DENVER (Oct. In September 2022, the Office of Child Support Services within the U.S. These organizations include Hilltop in Grand Junction, SafeHouse Denver and TESSA in Colorado Springs.

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Standard operating cruelty: When the family police steal more than Social Security checks

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

And letting children remember their birth parents and acknowledging the love between them may make things uncomfortable for the people for whom the system is designed: Overwhelmingly middle-class disproportionately white foster and adoptive parents. Consider the comments of Penn State Prof.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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Child Welfare Update: February 2024

Child Welfare Monitor

At almost three years old, and after two straight years in foster care with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. It would bar school districts and Health and Human Services from investigating educational neglect in a homeschool setting.

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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.