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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

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.” This mother worked but struggled financially. She took them in shifts leaving some children home alone.

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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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NCCPR News and commentary round-up, week ending Januaruy 28, 2025

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Imprint asks if the new Secretary of the Interior, Doug Berman will continue the ongoing project to document the harms of Indian boarding schools? 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.

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Colorado CASA seeking volunteers to support kids in foster care

CO4Kids

To become a CASA a volunteer must be at least 21 years old and complete a background check and interview process. Consider becoming a treatment or therapeutic foster parent. Read the Article The post Colorado CASA seeking volunteers to support kids in foster care appeared first on CO4Kids.

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Celebrating a Bold Chapter: Colorado Implementation Science Unit Concludes Transformative Three-Year Pilot

CO4Kids

A few standout examples include: Fostering Opportunities CISU played a key role in expanding Fostering Opportunities an education-focused program that supports students with foster care experience in staying engaged in school and achieving academic success.

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“[It] feels like a jail cell has dropped around my family”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In New York, it’s illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into foster care just because they “witnessed domestic violence” – typically a husband or boyfriend beating the child’s mother. In this case, the family police made 175 “visits” to the home and the children’s school over four years. said in court papers.

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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.