Doin' The Work

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We discuss the child welfare system, foster care, family preservation, and various interventions that take place for children and families in this complex system. We discuss the child welfare system, foster care, family preservation, and various interventions that take place for children and families in this complex system. Episode 14 Guest: Ronnita Waters, LCSW Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW www.dointhework.com.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

MAY 24, 2021

Foster care is an active intervention with the goal of helping the young child to recover from their traumatic experience, not just a “place to stay.” ~ The foster/resource parent is an essential partner in the recovery of the young child. Transitions for young children should be carefully planned Summary ~ Young traumatized children’s reactions and behaviors are best understood in the context of relationship. Transitions for young children should be carefully planne

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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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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.

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Famcare

JUNE 9, 2022

Foster children face numerous difficulties. Staying in a foster care facility is difficult in any situation and can have serious consequences for a child's behavioral and mental health. Foster Care Family and Child Welfare

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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.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Florida calls it a “Community-Based Care” (CBC) system of “child welfare,” but both those terms are euphemisms.) But by 2015, the year after Miller’s Innocents Lost series started a foster-care panic, that was gone.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

Teen Brother and Sister Follow Different Paths After Foster Care. Our Two Families Became One’: Fostering Leads to Adoption and a Lifelong Relationship. We’re So Thankful We Said Yes to Fostering Teens!’: Everyone goes through tough times.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

So the public was primed to scapegoat family preservation when Nixzmary Brown died in January, 2006 – leading to a foster-care panic , a sharp sudden increase in the number of children torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care.

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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. Read More.

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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. Across every sector, the value of data analytics is skyrocketing.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

So all those children needlessly separated; all those taken from homes that were safe or could have been made safe with the right kinds of help only to be abused in foster care, suffered for nothing. They were victims of a “foster-care panic” — a sharp, sudden increase in removals of children from their homes that often follows high-profile child abuse deaths — especially when that coverage goes out of its way to scapegoat family preservation.

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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).

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Children and the Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

New research, published in April analyzes the effectiveness of the foster care system in Michigan.[1] 1] In what is perhaps a surprising result, children who enter the foster care system are better off than their peers who remain with their parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Our robust continuum of family support services has successfully led to a 36% reduction in the number of children entering foster care from 2017 to 2021, But the number went up again in 2022. with foster care now at all-time low of less than 7,200 children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Children can be held in foster care for months before a court ever decides if the child was, in fact, abused or neglected. Such a panic has swept through the state , creating an artificial “shortage” of foster homes.

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Shelter, Inc

MAY 12, 2022

May is National Foster Care Month, and this year’s theme is Relative and Kin Connections: Keeping Families Strong. Over 407,000 children and youth are in foster care , and 34 percent were placed with relatives or kin. View State of Illinois Foster Care Requirements .

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Famcare

AUGUST 25, 2022

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

S he describes her own experience of retaliation after she complained about one of the private foster care agencies with which ACS contracts, offers an overview of how “predictive analytics” makes things worse, and makes clear we need to dig deeper into how ACS is using it. ?

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

If you, like millions of people, are looking for an inspiring mission, a sense of purpose, more flexibility, and caring coworkers, KVC Health Systems might be more than your favorite nonprofit to support; it might also be your next employer.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The premise is that because of the “shortage,” children can’t see their parents while in foster care, and families don’t get the guidance they need to jump through all the hoops they must surmount to prove themselves worthy of getting their children back.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

That would make everything ten times worse for the children by subjecting them to traumatic investigations and stripsearches and possibly consigning them to the chaos of foster care.

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Children and the Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The child welfare system and foster care were initially implemented as tools to help provide assistance to dependent children while the biological parents were temporarily unable to do so either because of neglect or abuse in the home.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every family policing agency routinely violates federal law requiring “reasonable efforts” to keep families together instead of just rushing to throw the kids into foster care. In Maryland, they’re paying to house foster youth in hotels because, supposedly, there’s no other placement. But many children are in foster care because their parents don’t have housing. child abuse child welfare family preservation foster care round-up

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 7, 2022

867 because I object to the removal of the safeguards which now protect the rights of parents whose children have been placed in foster care. The temporary best interests of the child may be to move him or her into a foster home.

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KVC

JUNE 23, 2021

Foster parents can especially be a welcome source of encouragement and reassurance to birth parents and can act as their parenting partners while their children are in foster care. Click here to learn more about becoming a foster parent.

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National Casa Gal

MAY 23, 2022

40 Years of Impact Event News court appointed special advocate Day of Giving foster careCASA/GAL supporters are encouraged to make a gift on June 7, as we aim to raise $40,000 to support the continued growth and development of our nationwide network. Read More.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

They said my child would be safer in foster care than with me," said the mother of Ja'Ceon Terry, "but see the outcome of what happened." In a story that should come as a shock to absolutely no one, MedPage Tod ay reports on a study which found that “ Punitive Policies for Substance Use in Pregnancy Tied to Worse Obstetric Care. child abuse child welfare family preservation foster care round-up

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 13, 2022

Now, NBC News has exposed the massive, state-sanctioned neglect of foster youth’s education in that state. OK, “Children’s Rights,” this is an issue that involves young people already in foster care – yet your McLawsuit does nothing about this, either. Wade somehow is not a problem because, you know, foster care: But the foster system and adoption are far from panaceas. Black children also remain longer in the foster care system than White children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

In a couple of ways, Abdurahman was fortunate: She has the education and the experience with the system – she was a kinship foster parent for her brother’s children – to know how to fight back, how to document everything and how to go on offense.

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Martin Webber

JANUARY 1, 2015

Independent fostering agencies (IFAs) have played a key role in helping local authorities meet the increased demand for foster care placements since the death of Baby Peter. In addition to supplying more foster carers, they. Foster care Social work research

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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. Presumably this also would rule out a large proportion of those providing kinship foster care, since they tend to be grandparents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

That means there still is plenty of opportunity to free up “capacity” by not filling family foster homes with children who don’t need to be there. child abuse child welfare Devereux family preservation foster care Glen Mills Philadelphia DHS residential treatment RTCs Samantha Melamed

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

Later, Gualtieri bragged about refusing requests from the former “lead agency” running foster care in the county, Eckerd Connects, to please stop taking so many kids.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The premise is that because of the “shortage,” children can’t see their parents while in foster care, and families don’t get the guidance they need to jump through all the hoops they must surmount to prove themselves worthy of getting their children back.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The Imprint reports on how, probably in response to excellent reporting from NPR , Washington State will stop forcing parents to pay ransom to get their kids back from foster care. child abuse child welfare family preservation foster care round-up

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

As is discussed in detail in this previous post , Mossaides goes further, making recommendations that would effectively silence young people who know that their parents took good care of them in spite of drug problems, and who know that staying with those parents is a better option than foster care.

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