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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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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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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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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CO4Kids

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Back to Blogs News & Press New law helps relatives and family friends care for kids, providing an alternative to placement in foster care DENVER (September 23, 2024) – The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) celebrates a new state law that provides more resources for kinship caregivers of children in child welfare cases.

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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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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In her 2009 book, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare , Dorothy Roberts drew attention to the disproportional representation of Black children in foster care and child welfare in general and helped make “racial disproportionality” a buzzword in the child welfare world.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

25 Sunday Journal editorial “Funds for baby bonds could be better spent on boosting foster care” says “Bold, new approaches are desperately needed” to deal with a “shortage” of licensed family foster homes and prevent children from being warehoused in group homes, institutions and state offices.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Recent developments in California and New York make it clear: Foster care is now known to be so harmful to children—and there is so much abuse in foster care—that agencies providing it are becoming uninsurable. Private foster care agencies are, of course, portraying this matter as a crisis.

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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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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

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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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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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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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Colin Gray was ordered to retrieve the other children, or they would be placed in foster care. There is no information from media reports about whether DCFS evaluated Colin Gray for his fitness to take care of his three children or to monitor their well-being in his care before closing the child welfare case.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 8, 2024

To hear the private agencies that institutionalize foster children in New York tell it, the rampant abuses that went on in their facilities, abuses that have led to more than 800 lawsuits under the Child Victims Act, are “sins of the past,” so they shouldn’t have to pay for them.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in foster care. This story from The Press-Enterprise in Riverside describes a case in California in which that happened – and then the children faced horrific abuse in a foster home overseen by a private agency. ●

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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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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 17, 2024

59 new parents received one-on-one support through our Healthy Families program, 22 “forever families ” were established through our foster care program, and critical housing and support services were providedfor youth in crisis, youth experiencing homelessness and young adultsaging out of the foster care system.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 14, 2024

Students in foster care have the right to remain in their school of origin. Students in foster care are eligible to have school fees waived, receive free and reduced lunch, and receive transportation support if they stay in their school of origin. Consider becoming a treatment or therapeutic foster parent.

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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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