Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. “We

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KVC

MARCH 30, 2022

Whether foster care seems like something you’re called to or your are simply curious to learn more, you’re in the right place. On any given day, nearly 407,000 children are in foster care in America. The primary goal of foster care is reunification. The Statistics: Children in Foster Care.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into foster care.” There is something strange about this example.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

The other is if they try to pass off official figures about abuse in foster care as bearing any resemblance to reality. States typically claim that, in any given year, fewer than one percent of foster youth are abused or neglected in foster care. That doesn’t even count foster youth abusing each other.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2025

Seventeen years after we first raised the issue, an ugly little practice that leads to hundreds of needless foster care placements in Kansas every year finally is getting some attention though far from all of the attention it deserves. Its a special Kansas twist on the ugly practice of hidden foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Excerpt A: Foster care is intended to be temporary, until children can either be reunited with their families or placed in another permanent home; however, children in Tennessee linger in foster care and are moved from place to place without the opportunity for a stable childhood.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 31, 2025

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Elevating Connections offers community and connections for siblings and teens in foster care In 2015, Stacy Sanders, founder and executive director of Elevating Connections , and Tamisha Macklin, an advocate who had lived experience in Colorados fostercare system, started Elevating Connections.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

Taken together, they reveal a hellscape which, even if it is not designed to squeeze every last dollar out of poor families, perpetuate their poverty and prolong the trauma of foster care nevertheless does exactly that. That led to the child being thrown into foster care. So the foster care is prolonged.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2024

And the reason for that is not because there are too few foster parents. When a child is abused in foster care, the abuser is not only the individual who committed the abuse. The abuser also is the family police agency because that agency put the child in that dangerous foster home, group home or institution in the first place.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Dreadful decisions by two governors and vile grandstanding from one current and one former public official plunged the state into foster-care panic. The monitor reports that many parents wait weeks or months for a defense attorney even to be assigned dramatically prolonging childrens time in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2025

Among its many execrable provisions the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act demands that, with certain exceptions, if a child has been in foster care for 15 of the previous 22 months, the state family police agency must seek to terminate that childs right to live with her or his parents. Think of it as ASFA on steroids.

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CO4Kids

JULY 7, 2025

Recruits and Supports Foster Families Across Colorado Project 1.27 is a Christian non-profit that started in 2004 to help connect kids in foster care with families through local churches. We’re not just asking people to show interest in foster care, or open up their home to kids in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

Then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care. They can effectively decide if the child will ever see his or her parents ever again. What could possibly go wrong? Well, for starters, abundant research shows that it backfires.

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KVC

JUNE 20, 2024

Whether that’s a story of a foster care caseworker noticing and meeting a child’s needs, a family reconnecting after difficult times, or a community coming together for a shared cause, life is really all about positive relationships with other people.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

This process, known as kinship foster care, is usually the least harmful form of foster care. But it’s still foster care. Let me repeat that: Kinship care is foster care. Kinship care is foster care. Kinship care is foster care. Easier than what?

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CO4Kids

JUNE 9, 2025

I try to help them get through the struggles of foster care and let them know that somebody cares enough to try to steer them in the right direction,” said Sandra. Many of the young women who leave Sandra’s home are aging out of foster care.

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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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National Casa Gal

MAY 29, 2024

We are grateful to foster parents who step in, in most cases temporarily, when families can’t be together. The post Celebrating National Foster Care Month appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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National Casa Gal

MAY 10, 2022

May is National Foster Care Month. With more than 407,000 children entering the system on any given day, National CASA/GAL is thankful for foster families. The post National Foster Care Month – Thank you for being a part of the village appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 1, 2025

I have a blog post about how Sara Smith of the Missouri Children’s Division is turning up the spigot on the foster-care-to-prison pipeline. ● And in this case, a 2014 foster-care panic, fueled by the Minnesota Star-Tribune, may have played an indirect role. After all, Boys Town is wonderful, isn’t it?

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2025

ENTRIES INTO FOSTER CARE PER THOUSAND IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN, 2022 This is what we mean by "Child Rremoval Capital of America Of all the options for placing children torn from their homes, among the very worst are so-called shelters. First came the bill that would send caseloads skyrocketing.

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National Casa Gal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

“This award will help me to inspire other kids in care as well, because I can show them just how much a child in foster care is capable of.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 9, 2024

Private foster care agencies in New York tell victims of abuse on their watch: If we don´t get a taxpayer bailout, you won´t get compensation for what was done to you. A lawyer for survivors apparently agrees.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 13, 2025

Thats the publication that has published thousands upon thousands of words about the child welfare system in the Child Removal Capital of America and not one of those words that I can find comes from a parent who lost a child to foster care.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. What’s behind this national foster care placement crisis? But this isn’t what foster care is for. Let’s rewind.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

CASA volunteers also complete 30 to 40 hours of training with a curriculum that includes psychology, the foster care system, juvenile law, court structure, dynamics of abuse, how to build trust and rapport, volunteer safety as well as other training that may be tailored to the needs of local jurisdictions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 12, 2023

You probably remember the story: White adoptive parents of six black children drive themselves and the children off a cliff, killing them all. That may be all you remember, and perhaps wondering what would drive such a noble couple to such despair. After all, they rescued these children from their terrible parents, didn’t they?

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Shelter, Inc

JUNE 16, 2025

The children were temporarily placed in foster care while the case was assessed. Denise Nutall, one of Shelter’s foster care caseworkers, began that day working to reunite the family. The youngest child had suffered an unexplained injury, which prompted child welfare officials to intervene.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

Councils are referring more children from residential to foster care, independent fostering agencies (IFAs) have reported. Children making significant progress in residential care due to effective therapeutic interventions, making them ready and willing to move to a family-like setting.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“We are also investing £27m to deliver a fostering recruitment and retention programme so foster care is available for more children.” Call for more urgent government action However, council and fostering leaders urged more and faster government action to tackle foster care shortages in the light of the Ofsted data.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Kinship care is an arrangement in which children under 18 years of age who are unable to live with their parents are placed in the care of relatives, close family friends, or other people important in their lives instead of being placed in traditional foster care or group homes.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Sometime in the early years of the current century, a group of powerful advocates who thought that too many children were being placed in foster care came up with a proposal for change that they called “child welfare finance reform.” … So under Family First, we created new federal funding for those services.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Jessica and Marty continue to provide temporary foster care for children in need in their community. Since becoming foster parents, they have cared for an eight-year-old girl and a seven and 18-month-old siblings and plan on continuing to care for kids in their community when there is a need.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

When I was put into foster care, the government removed me from my Native grandmother and placed me with my white father who was a rapist and pedophile with prior convictions. After some predatory events occurred, I was put into foster care with my three half-siblings.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

By Kimberly Phillips Many young adults celebrate their 18 th and 21 st birthdays with presents and cake, but those in the foster care system might dread those milestones for the uncertainty they bring. If she failed, there was no place to fall. What we need is to change systemic things to make their lives easier.”

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