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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Famcare

MAY 2, 2023

According to recent estimates, over 600,000 American children have recently been placed in foster care. This makes foster care one of the most challenging sectors for case managers. Fortunately, there are case management solutions available to help foster care agencies with their work.

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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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Famcare

JUNE 9, 2022

Staying in a foster care facility is difficult in any situation and can have serious consequences for a child's behavioral and mental health. To promote foster children's safety and mental health, it is critical to understand what they face on a daily basis and the dangers they face.

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Famcare

OCTOBER 17, 2022

There are about 424,000 kids in foster care in the US, according to surveys. More than 5% of these kids have been in foster care for 5 years or longer, proving what social workers have been saying all along: better management of foster care needs to be a priority!

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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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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

McDonald was charting one of the nation’s early foster-care panics. Most of the time, those who set off foster-care panics, like most who work in the system itself, mean well but don’t know any better. Sometimes these panics are set off by misleading news coverage, sometimes by politicians.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

As a result, in 2022, the most recent year for which comparative data are available, while almost everywhere else in America recognized the enormous harm of needlessly sundering families and reduced entries into foster care, in Louisiana, they skyrocketed 23% over the previous year — the biggest percentage increase in the country.

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KVC

JUNE 13, 2023

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. You can win KVC swag and Amazon gift cards!

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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

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. The panic was welcomed by the Times. So did The Imprint.

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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. Two things immediately came to her mind.

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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). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM.

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

For some children, foster care, residential care or care by someone within their extended network is considered necessary for their immediate or longer-term safety. An alternative to foster care Fostering Families is an alternative to foster care and draws upon ideas presented by Crittenden and Farnfield (2007).

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 12, 2022

to Recruit Homes for the Emergency Foster Care Program. Children in foster care face many challenges. One of the biggest challenges is the disruption they experience when they have to leave the home where they’ve been living, whether with biological or foster family. Let It Be Us is Partnering with Shelter Inc.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2023

By Sue Coyle, MSW Every year, more than 20,000 young adults age out of the foster care system. They are between the ages of 18 and 21, some having chosen to voluntarily remain in care after 18.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

That would cause a foster-care panic – a sharp, sudden increase in the number of children torn from their families and consigned to the chaos of foster care. That would further overwhelm caseworkers, so they’d have even less time to investigate any case with care. Understandably, people would buy it.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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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. In this case, the data has been de-identified and will only be analyzed for children who are no longer in foster care.

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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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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

According to Virginia Public Media : Avula noted Virginia’s rate of placement with relatives is less than half of the national average — a statistic he said is skewed by the fact that local social services departments in the state prioritize informal placements with relatives before sending a child into the foster care system.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

. “However, we are concerned that the strategy falls victim to the same timid ambitions that are holding back the government’s wider plans for children’s social care.” ” Further boost for foster care recruitment and retention Alongside the kinship strategy, the DfE has also announced an additional £8.5m

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

Another retired social worker to receive a BEM was Rebecca Chambers, who worked for over 30 years in charity Barnardo’s fostering service. She said she “loved” her job, particularly the opportunity to do direct work with children in foster care.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These figures correlate with the government’s children looked after statistics for March 2020, which showed that the proportion of children in foster care not with a relative or friend had decreased to 57% from 60% in 2018. Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s national director for social care, said the figures painted a “bleak picture”.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The result: A dramatic reduction in needless family surveillance and foster care with no compromise in safety. There’s a similar pattern when it comes to children forced into foster care. of foster children sent home returned to foster care. There are two standard measures of child safety.

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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.

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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 .

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Safe, proven approaches to keeping families together cost less than family foster homes, which cost less than group homes, which cost less than institutions. So stop wasting all that money on needless foster care and you’ll have all you need to stop being racist. The counties don’t lack the money. They lack the will.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

But before getting to what else Font got wrong, let’s look at the two things she got partially right: ● She’s right about the enormous emotional harm foster care inflicts on children. She’s even right that the more time a child spends in foster care the greater the risk of harm.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Have a look: The only good news for the family police came from the fact that, apparently, only a minority of respondents agreed with the statement “Overall, the foster care system harms more than helps the children in its care.” But while Gallup reveals how many agreed with the statement, it doesn’t say how many disagreed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Foster care] cut risk by 1/2 As you read on, note that this is a study not of child abuse deaths, but of deaths due to diseases. We have to rush more infants into foster care – it’s the only way to save them from getting fatal diseases!” Here’s something he tweeted on Dec. No kidding. ● You don’t suppose … ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

At long last the federal government has released state and national foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022. The snapshot number of children in foster care on any given day, also declined, from 392,000 on Sept. When we curb needless foster care, children get safer!

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care. A report from the Children’s Commissioner for England last year found that 37% of children in care had been separated from at least one sibling in their initial placement.

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KVC

JANUARY 11, 2024

While foster care can be a crucial safety net for children and families in challenging circumstances, we at KVC know how important it is to help families stay together. Foster care prevention and family preservation services help families remain intact, allowing children to grow and thrive! foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 13, 2024

The series also exposed horrific abuse in the group homes, institutions and family foster homes run by these agencies.

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