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All posts tagged "child welfare system"
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769OpinionA massive human experiment without informed consent
A prominent researcher says we don’t know if foster care does good or harm. So why are we still running the experiment?
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2.5KOpinionChild safety was never meant to look like this
The U.S. invokes child protection to justify family separation, prolonged detention and forced placements, but this distorts the origins of child safety.
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2.2KOpinionPrevention with protection: Making Family First work for every child
Seven years since the passage of Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), its goal of keeping families together safely is proving difficult.
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1.7KNewsLawmakers provide grim look at WV foster care system, say mandated improvements, funding needed
The state leads the nation in the rate of children coming into foster care.
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1.8K► ReportsKinship policy improvements in federal and state child welfare systems
Kinship Policy Improvements Toward Child Welfare System Transformations, the final brief in the Family Ties series from Annie E. Casey Foundation, summarizes...
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2.8KOpinionFor children under state supervision, youth service provider support can be a lifeline
Youth service providers play an integral role in supporting the needs of young people.
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3.2KNewsFive years in with millions unclaimed, is Family First helping kids and families yet?
The Family First Prevention Services Act aims to keep families together, whenever possible.
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7.0KOpinionNew York’s mandatory reporter training wants to have it both ways. That’s an improvement.
New York’s new online mandated reporter training course is less awful than its predecessors.
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2.5KOpinionBalancing incentives and sanctions to achieve youth justice progress
Adolescents are best influenced to change behaviors through a balance of incentives and sanctions.
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16.1KNewsMurdered on the job: A year after a child welfare investigator was killed, little has changed
The day Deidre Silas was murdered, the social worker went alone on a house call.
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3.3KOpinionA state is being sued for warehousing children with disabilities in foster care
The lawsuit alleges that North Carolina children are isolated in restrictive, clinically inappropriate placements.
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4.7KOpinionYou don’t need a task force to tell you why institutionalized children run
Children run away from out-of-home placements because they are in out-of-home placements. Institutionalization is inherently harmful, inherently traumatic and almost never necessary....
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7.7K► ReportsNumber of children separated from their families due to parental substance use has more than doubled
The number of children separated from their families due to parental substance use has more than doubled in the past two decades...
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1.4KNewsOregon dropping AI tool used in child abuse cases
Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead...
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7.1KNewsQ&A: UPenn Prof. Dorothy Roberts makes the case for abolishing the child welfare system
For Dorothy Roberts, a scholar of race and gender at the University of Pennsylvania law school, there is nothing well-meaning or compassionate...
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5.6KNewsPredictive analytics in child welfare raise concerns
A contentious debate on the value of using predictive analytics within the child welfare system is unfolding between proponents who say the...
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2.5K► ReportsFostering Inequity: How COVID-19 Amplifies Dangers For LGBTQ+ Youth in Care
This new report from Children's Rights details how the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating already difficult situations for LGBTQ+ youth in care facilities...
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4.0KOpinionLet’s Boldly Reimagine Child Welfare System to Strengthen Families In Post-COVID-19 World
A crisis — such as the COVID-19 global pandemic — has a way of shaking up our worlds. And while this can...
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5.2K► NewsmakersYouth Villages Names Jessica Foster Chief Strategy Officer
Youth Villages recently named Jessica Foster as its new chief strategy officer. The appointment is a promotion from within, as Foster has...
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2.9K► NewsmakersVirginia Knox Named President of MDRC
Virginia Knox will be the new president of MDRC after 15 years leading its Families and Children Policy Area. She succeeds Gordon...
