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All posts tagged "Foster Care"
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Removals to Foster Care Called ‘Jane Crow’
In New York City, the agency that handles children’s services asked for 40 percent more removals of children from their families to...
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4.5KGuest Opinion EssayLawsuit Reveals Child Welfare’s Assault on Battered Mothers, Their Children
For a mother of two daughters in Will County, Illinois, known in legal papers as Kelly, the morning of May 1 began...
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Guest Opinion Essay
A Tale of Two Juries on Foster Father Accused of Sex Abuse
Seven days of deadlocked jury deliberations in the sex abuse trial of a single foster father are over. Despite allegations that he...
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2.4KGuest Opinion EssayKeep the Light of a College Education Burning Bright for New York’s Foster Youth
Growing up in New York state’s foster care system in the 1980s, I was well aware of the plight of those who...
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16.7KMagazinesFoster Care: Realities, Transitions and Hope
Personal stories from foster parents, foster children and their counselors. Explore our digital magazine with news stories, personal essays from youth and...
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3.9KGuest Opinion Essay
South Dakota Child Welfare: Where Kangaroo Court Is Always in Session
Of all the crimes against children committed in the name of “child protection,” none is worse than when white America weaponized child...
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12.4KGuest Opinion Essay
Confessions of a Caseworker: We Remove Kids to Protect Ourselves
It’s hard to imagine many jobs more difficult than that of a caseworker for a child protective services agency.
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2.0KNewsFostering Change
Chelsea Bramblett didn’t know what to expect the first time she showed up at the statehouse in Tallahassee...
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1.7KGuest Opinion Essay
Health and Human Services Misinterprets Foster Care Data
Let’s assume that there has been a real increase in parental substance abuse. The biggest flaw in HHS’ logic is the implicit...
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3.6KNewsHHS Now Able to Definitively Link More Foster Children to More Parental Substance Abuse
New data in a recent Health and Human Services report shows both that the number of youth in the foster care system...
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3.3KGuest Opinion Essay
Needless Removal, Not ‘Drug Plague,’ Drives Foster Care Numbers Hike in Arkansas
In 2015, for the third year in a row, the number of children taken from their parents, and the number of children...
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2.6KFrom the BureausLA Drug Court’s Wraparound Services Help Parents Quit Drugs, Keep Their Kids
“I didn’t know how to be a mom,” Lisa Galvan said. “I was used to being by myself. It was really hard...
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssayHow to Reduce the Use of Chemical Restraints on Foster Children
We American taxpayers spend many, many millions of dollars on chemical restraints, also known as antipsychotic medications, that we administer to children...
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6.6KFrom the BureausA Troubled Life of Truancy, Drugs Leads to Foster Care, Early Death
Only a few years apart, Andrew Lavin and Jennifer Cohen grew up together, first in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and then in Staten...
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2.5KGuest Opinion Essay
Alaska’s Unreasonable Assault on ‘Reasonable Efforts’
Yes, the reasonable efforts clause has lots of loopholes. But it does not say “make reasonable efforts unless you don’t have time.”
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2.5KNewsMan Still Fighting 40-year Sentence for Nonlethal Crime He Committed As 14-year-old
What was about to happen on Feb. 4, 1999, would drastically accelerate the trajectory of Christopher Thomas’ life, which had been spiraling...
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2.3KNewsFoster Youth Bring Their Priorities to Capitol Hill
Foster youth sometimes get the chance to respond to lawmakers’ child welfare agendas. Based on a survey of more than 500 current...
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1.9KGuest Opinion EssayFoster Youth Need Academic Support to Succeed
For years, the child welfare system in America has focused on the most urgent needs of the children it...
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2.7KNewsProposed Tax Credit Would Reward Employers Who Hire Former Foster Youth
A proposed federal tax credit aims to encourage employers to hire former foster youth as they transition out of the child welfare...
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Is U.S. Opioid Crisis Straining State Child Welfare Systems?
While a national opioid crisis rages, the number of child welfare cases surges natinoally. Is this more than a coincidence? “Both things...
