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Cranking up the foster care to prison pipeline in Missouri

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In an interview with the Missouri Independent, the new head of the Missouri Children’s Division, one of the two agencies (notwithstanding its denials – see below) that take away children and hold them in foster care, said “she wants to bring the Children’s Division back to basics, which she defines as ensuring safety for children.”

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The rejection of child protection

Child Welfare Monitor

The anticipated reduction of more than $100 million would force the department to revert to its most basic role that of child protection not prevention, not support or empowerment, just surveillance and foster care , DCF Commissioner Christine Norbut-Beyer told members of the state Senate’s Budget Appropriations Committee.

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Child Protective Services in the District of Columbia: An alarming increase in incomplete investigations in FY2024

Child Welfare Monitor

The number of children entering foster care increased for the first time in over ten years. There was a drop in in-home case openings but a similar increase in foster care placements during the year. But the number of children being served in their homes decreased by 50 while the number in foster care increased by 49.

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Landmark Studies Reveal Direct Cash Grants Boost Employment, Improve Well-being, Stability for NYC Youth Exiting Foster Care, Without Negative Consequences

Children’s Defense Fund

In the summer of 2023, YouthNPower: Transforming Care launched the first direct cash transfer pilot in the United States designed by and for young people who had aged out of foster care. Many young people who age out of the foster care system in New York City face significant precarity.

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CDHS honors five Colorado families in celebration of National Foster Care Month

CO4Kids

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog CDHS honors five Colorado families in celebration of National Foster Care Month Denver (May 1, 2025) In celebration of National Foster Care Month and to encourage more Coloradans to become foster parents, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) is honoring five foster families.

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Budget to include £44m for kinship and foster care

Community Care

The government will provide £44m for kinship and foster care in this week’s Budget, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced. The funding will enable up to 10 areas to test providing kinship carers with allowances to cover some of the costs of care, encouraging more family members or friends to come forward.

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The child welfare establishment just got four billion messages: Your system is not safe

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

What lawmakers didnt realize was that, horrific as were the predations of priests, they were nothing compared to the horrors inflicted in foster care especially group homes and institutions. Foster care apologists also will say these suits deal with abuse from long ago, and really, truly, weve all cleaned up our acts since then!