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The following links to selected national new stories were obtained through a Google News search using key terms such as "child welfare" and "child abuse and neglect." The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement assumes no responsibility for the content of the posted news links. If you find inaccuracies in the news articles, we recommend that you contact the author or the local news sources.
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National Child Welfare News Clippings (10/23/2009 - 10/30/2009)
Child Welfare News:
NY: Deadly crash puts spotlight on ACS
7Online.com – Oct 29, 2009
City Councilman Bill de Blasio oversees New York's child welfare agency. He released the following statement on the deaths. "These children's lives were in ...
MI: Adoption Forum speeds transition from foster care
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com - Oct 29, 2009
For the past eight years, Corrigan has been the court's liaison to the state's child welfare programs. In March 2008, the two invited 13 counties to ...
Central Nebraska agency not on board as foster care transition nears
Lincoln Journal Star - Oct 27, 2009
In this major overhaul of child welfare, he said, there will be risks to providers and the state. Reckling projects that in the next several years, ...
Oregon gives most foster parents a raise
Ontario Argus Observer - Oct 27, 2009
Child welfare officials say this is the first change in 20 years in the way foster parents are reimbursed and there are still bugs to be worked out. ...
RI: Narragansett Indian Tribe tries to block subpoena of tribal leader
Providence Journal - Oct 26, 2009
The court found that Robinson was entitled to have an expert witness testify on his behalf under the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, passed in 1978 to ...
CA: IBM Helps Alameda County Deliver Social Services
Reuters - Oct 26, 2009
For example, caseworkers can now access a single dashboard that provides the real-time status on children in the child welfare system from multiple payment ...
DC foster-child project recasts concept of family
Daily Press - Oct 25, 2009
... in a roundtable discussion, sponsored by the Casey Family Group, about a new nationwide movement in child welfare: preventing foster-care admissions. ...
A Child's Right to Counsel: A National Report Card on Legal Representation for ...
Docuticker (blog) - Oct 24, 2009
... Representation for Abused and Neglected Children (Second Edition) provides grades for each state based on criteria established by child welfare experts. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (10/16/2009 - 10/23/2009)
Child Welfare News:
CA: Soboba tribe saluted for role in Indian adoptions law
Press-Enterprise – Oct 23, 2009
The Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians' tribal council was recognized at an Indian child welfare conference Thursday for sponsoring legislation ...
Ore. mental health agency uses Native American way
Native Times - Oct 22, 2009
... of the Native American Youth Authority, Native American Rehabilitation Association, the National Indian Child Welfare Association, tribes and others. ...
IA: Budget plan slices payments to foster, adoptive families
Quad City Times - Oct 22, 2009
People who take in kids from the state's child welfare system aren't motivated by money, state officials and others say. Still, the reductions in ...
DC: Years After 4 Deaths, DC Welfare System Remains Under Scrutiny
New York Times - Oct 21, 2009
In the furor that followed, the child welfare system that was blamed for not preventing the deaths has drastically improved, city officials said this week. ...
MI: Audit: Department of Human Services misspent millions
The Detroit News - Oct 21, 2009
The agency is under a court order to fix its child welfare system after a child advocacy group sued the state, charging its system has failed too many ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (10/9/2009 - 10/16/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Florida fails to protect kids' rights in court, advocates say
Orlando Sentinel - Oct 16, 2009
The chief criticism: Even though Florida law requires that a guardian ad litem be appointed for every kid who ends up in the child-welfare system, ...
GA: State spotlights foster kids
Atlanta Journal Constitution - Oct 14, 2009
... and reinvest the savings to strengthen families and improve child welfare, education, employment and mental health services for children in foster care. ...
NE: DHHS Making Progress in Finding Permanent Homes For Children Who are State Wards
Nebraska City News Press - Oct 13, 2009
DHHS is in the midst of a child welfare reform that aims to accomplish much of what the Platte Institute recommends, according to Reckling. ...
CA: Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Legislation to Provide Services and Resources to ...
California Newswire - Oct 12, 2009
... renew or extend beyond a three-year time period specified performance agreements with private, nonprofit agencies that provide child welfare services. ...
OR: Paperwork mess may lead to adopted teen's removal
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Oct 9, 2009
The Oregonian reports Lisa Catt's $1 million lawsuit says state child-welfare workers told her and her then-husband their daughter would be automatically be ...
TN: Timeline of juvenile records leak analyzed
WTVM - Oct 9, 2009
Spokeswoman Kristin Helm said the timeline of when authorities and child welfare officials learned about the allegations and when the news media reported ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (10/2/2009 - 10/9/2009)
Child Welfare News:
MD: Governor Martin O'Malley Honors Local Departments of Social Services for ...
Appalachian Independent - Oct 7, 2009
I want to thank the directors here today for the work that they do in reforming Maryland's child welfare system," said Governor O'Malley. ...
New study finds high rates of childhood exposure to violence and abuse in US
EurekAlert (press release) - Oct 6, 2009
... by providing high-quality research and statistics to the public, policy makers, law enforcement personnel, and other child welfare practitioners. ...
CA: Evans Legislation Saves Money, Brings in Federal Funds
California Chronicle - Oct 6, 2009
It also requires all of these federal funds to be reinvested in child welfare services, including post adoption services, such as independent living ...
TN: Report Sheds Light On Some Of State's Most Troubled Youth
NewsChannel5.com - Oct 6, 2009
The report was a comprehensive look at child welfare in the state, including infant mortality rates, teen pregnancy rates, children on public assistance and ...
CA: Fresno Co. schools reach out to foster children
Fresno Bee - Oct 6, 2009
At least four other counties — Imperial, Los Angeles, Merced and San Diego — have county child-welfare social workers in schools, according to the ...
Mom's Depression Tied to Child Abuse in Some Families
ABC News - Oct 5, 2009
The study, which followed 5500 US families investigated by child- welfare agencies, found that when a mother developed depression, the odds of her child ...
NE: Forum gives voice to families in crisis
Lincoln Journal Star - Oct 3, 2009
... four other agencies in the eastern part of the state to provide service coordination for the foster care system as part of HHS child welfare reform. ...
CA: Beyond the Bench explores foster youth services in Humboldt County
Times-Standard - Oct 3, 2009
All sides of the table were heard -- parents and caretakers, child welfare service workers, educators and youths. One of the highly touted efforts discussed ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (9/25/2009 - 10/2/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Audio Press Conference to Mark 1st Anniversary of Fostering Connections ...
PR Web (press release) - Oct 2, 2009
On Wednesday, October 7th from 1:00PM-2:00PM EST, a coalition of child welfare, adoption, healthcare and education leaders will host an audio teleconference ...
MD: State's child welfare reforms draw praise
Baltimore Sun – Oct 2, 2009
... julie.bykowicz@baltsun.com Two days after a state senator said Maryland Human Resources Secretary Brenda Donald's signature child welfare program was ...
ME: Law Helps Houlton Band of Maliseets to Grow
MPBN News – Oct 1, 2009
He says the court plans to take over child welfare cases which, until now, have been handled by the state. "The tribal court and the tribe has chosen to ...
Report: Michigan Department of Human Services making progress ...
The Michigan News - Oct 1, 2009
You can leave a response or trackback to this entry DETROIT – The Michigan Department of Human Services is making progress in its child welfare reform ...
CA: County's Department of Children and Family Services upgrading to ...
Los Angeles Daily News - Sep 29, 2009
... are under consideration as DCFS works with other county staff to develop a consistent methodology across agencies for handling child welfare cases. ...
OR: Blacks, Native Americans more likely to go to foster care
OregonLive.com - Sep 28, 2009
New research from Portland State University underscores what child welfare officials have known for years: Some minorities are disproportionately ...
Conn. receives extra foster care adoption money
Danbury News Times - Sep 28, 2009
The child welfare agency has been under federal oversight since 1991. Increasing the number of youngsters permanently adopted from foster care was among the ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (9/18/2009 - 9/25/2009)
Child Welfare News:
NY: ACS Layoffs Prompt New Concerns Over Child Safety
NBC New York - Sep 25, 2009
asked Marshall, an ACS child welfare specialist. "Who's going to get her needs met? Who's going to place this girl … raped and mistreated by her family? ...
FL: Parenting the second time around
Orlando Sentinel - Sep 24, 2009
"Parents abandon the children at their grandparents', and child welfare never gets involved. Many grandparents prefer it that way because they don't trust ...
IA: Briar Cliff honors Indian child welfare students
Sioux City Journal - Sep 23, 2009
SIOUX CITY -- Briar Cliff University will recognize six Native American social work students who are participating in the Siouxland Indian Child Welfare ...
WI: Changes considered in handling of Indian child welfare cases
New Richmond News - Sep 22, 2009
More of them would stay in tribal courts, in line with the Federal Indian Child Welfare Act that's been in place for three decades. ...
Oklahoma child welfare law pleases author
NewsOK.com - Sep 22, 2009
The author of a child welfare reform bill signed into law last legislative session says he's pleased with how quickly provisions of the bill ...
NH: Training Center for Child Welfare Launched at UNH
UNH The New Hampshire (subscription) - Sep 21, 2009
The center, located in Pettee Hall, will be used to develop an up-to-date child welfare training curriculum for the state of New Hampshire. ...
WI: Report details medical needs of children in child welfare system
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Sep 20, 2009
"We have a high rate of kids in kinship care here," said Sue Conwell, executive director of Kids Matter Inc., a child welfare advocacy group. ...
GA: Foster care system focuses on building relationships with birth ...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Sep 19, 2009
DFCS is moving from what Sciulli called “conventional child welfare services” to “family-centered child welfare services.” In the conventional system, ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (9/11/2009 - 9/18/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Florida's adoption program gets $10 million
MiamiHerald.com - Sep 18, 2009
Florida child-welfare administrators have received a big bundle of joy from the federal government: nearly $10 million in aid for the ...
Assistant Secretary for Children's Administration announced
Access Washington - Sep 17, 2009
Revels Robinson brings to Washington 40 years experience working in child welfare, most recently as executive policy advisor at the Wisconsin Department of ...
US National Governors Assoc. Chooses to Help 12 States to Improve ...
eGov monitor - Sep 17, 2009
On average, the 496000 children in the custody of state child welfare systems will remain in foster care for two and a half years and have a 40 percent ...
DHS budget proposal has no cuts
DesMoinesRegister.com - Sep 16, 2009
Schulte said providers of health care, child welfare services and juvenile justice services were bracing for cuts in their payment rates from the state. ...
Turnover rate improves for child services caseworkers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Sep 14, 2009
Turnover is a chronic problem in providing consistent child services, and child welfare officials promised this year to do something about it. ...
Municipal Action Guide to Help Cities Support Foster Youth Transitions
Nation's Cities Weekly - Sep 13, 2009
... what is known about their housing and employment situations after they leave the child welfare system, which local agencies are already providing them ...
Senate OKs tough 'Nixzmary' law
New York Post - Sep 12, 2009
Nixzmary's name became synonymous with horrific abuse -- and cracks in the child-welfare system -- when she died in 2006. Cesar Rodriguez, the little girl's ...
Neb. Senators Discuss Children 'Safe Haven' Reforms
Yankton Daily Press - Sep 12, 2009
(AP) — Filling in the gaps in Nebraska's child-welfare system that prompted dozens of parents to give up custody of their children under the safe-haven law ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (9/4/2009 - 9/11/2009)
Child Welfare News:
State senators discuss child-welfare system reforms
Lincoln Journal Star - Sep 11, 2009
(Associated Press file photo) A committee of Nebraska lawmakers has been told reforms to Nebraska's child-welfare system will take several years to complete ...
WTHR | IndianapolisPublic child welfare hearings start Friday
WTHR - Sep 10, 2009
Entertainment News from AP Indianapolis - Hearings Friday in Bloomington and Muncie will be the first of 18 across the state over the next several weeks as ...
Promising Models For Reforming Juvenile Justice Systems
Seattle Medium - Sep 9, 2009
... substance abuse, child welfare, juvenile justice and education professionals; addressing racial and ethnic fairness in juvenile justice systems; ...
Now in Philadelphia, A High School Only For Foster Kids
KYW1060.com - Sep 9, 2009
... been to a new foster home or to another group home or some other kind of institution within the child welfare system, they've had to change schools. ...
New law lets DCS decide out-of-state placements
Indianapolis Star - Sep 7, 2009
And since the $600 million cost of child-welfare services was shifted from counties to the state this year, most counties no longer have budgets to pay ...
New State policy implements federal supports for youth leaving ...
Examiner.com - Sep 6, 2009
... adoption assistance and child welfare services under Title IV-B and Title IV-E of the federal Social Security Act. OCFS issued emergency regulations to ...
Baby P brings 'more young people into social work'
Kent News - Sep 6, 2009
The Baby Peter tragedy has made a positive impact on the number of young people entering the child welfare profession, says County Hall's social work chief. ...
Child welfare follow-ups being reviewed
San Antonio Express - Sep 5, 2009
HOUSTON — A state review team is looking at a possible breakdown in the way Texas Child Protective Services follows up ...
Expert tells how he would prevent 'panic' in foster-care system
Los Angeles Daily News - Sep 5, 2009
Seek changes in state law to provide for "total transparency," including opening court hearings in child welfare cases, and most case records, to the public ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (8/21/2009 - 9/4/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Kids, Courts and Schools Conference looks at ways to help at-risk ...
Mt. Vernon Register-News - Sep 4, 2009
... participants will include state's attorneys, public defenders, prevention and treatment specialists, child welfare workers, foster parents and others. ...
Forum Highlights Iowa Child Welfare System
KMEG 14 - Sep 2, 2009
(SIOUX CITY, IA) Elected officials got a chance to find out how Iowa's child welfare system is doing. The informational forum at the Four Directions ...
US fares poorly in child welfare survey
The Associated Press - Sep 1, 2009
PARIS — America has some of the industrial world's worst rates of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and child poverty, even though it spends more per ...
DHS assembling medical response team
Radio Iowa - Aug 31, 2009
DHS Director Charles Krogmeier announced the decision today in a letter to Governor Culver, who requested a review of child welfare regulations. ...
A promising partnership to help Oregon children
OregonLive.com - Aug 29, 2009
... care placement is among the highest in the nation, and that's not acceptable to Erinn Kelley-Siel, the state's top-ranked child welfare administrator. ...
Ga. DHS: Furloughs won't affect social services
Forbes - Aug 28, 2009
Department of Human Services Commissioner BJ Walker said child welfare and adult protective services will be available online during the 12 furlough days ...
Governor Quinn Signs Child Welfare Reform Laws
eNews Park Forest - Aug 26, 2009
Governor Pat Quinn today signed a series of bills that enhance and improve child welfare services in Illinois. Together, these bills enable the Department ...
NJ study of child abuse says welfare workers overlook family problem
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Aug 24, 2009
TRENTON -- Child welfare workers too often overlooked family problems caused by mental illness, domestic violence, ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (8/14/2009 - 8/21/2009)
Child Welfare News:
DCF worker's alleged fib could be felony
The News-Press - Aug 21, 2009
She said child welfare officials are using her client to snip themselves of liability. Her client lacked training and procedural information, ...
Unwanted baby? New law offers safe choices, child advocates say
Columbus Dispatch - Aug 20, 2009
Child-welfare advocates want more Ohioans to know how to safely surrender an unwanted newborn. "Knowledge of this law could very well save the ...
DCF failed to follow guidelines on medicating children, report says
The News-Press - Aug 20, 2009
By news-press.com Staff • August 20, 2009 Florida's child welfare system has a detailed framework to protect foster children taking psychotropic medications ...
Fostering communication: Professionals join forces at summit to ...
Times-Standard - Aug 20, 2009
Co-funded by the Annie E. Casey, Walter S. Johnson and Hewlett foundations, California Connected by 25 works with child welfare agencies in eight California ...
L.A. County to probe child welfare system
Los Angeles Times - Aug 18, 2009
By Garrett Therolf Los Angeles County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to launch an investigation into potential flaws in the child welfare system that ...
American Humane Association Launches Innovative 'Therapy Animals ...
PR Newswire (press release) - Aug 17, 2009
17, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Humane Association today officially launched an innovative new program that encourages and guides child welfare ...
Lawmakers, experts say NJ's child welfare chief is getting the job ...
NJ.com - Aug 17, 2009
The driven, career administrator has become a star of the Corzine cabinet in the minds of many lawmakers and child welfare ...
Review spurs sweeping changes in child welfare system
Arkansas News - Aug 16, 2009
“We feel we have started child welfare over in this state,” she said last week. “We got a lot of things accomplished that we said we were going to look at. ...
Mother invokes Indian law in victory over Marin child welfare ...
Marin Independent-Journal - Aug 15, 2009
"GR" filed an appeal with the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco, claiming Marin authorities violated the federal Indian Child Welfare Act when ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (7/31/2009 - 8/14/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Drugs and Foster Care: Myers Report Critical of DCF
The Jacksonville Observer - Aug 14, 2009
“These principles should be accepted and clearly articulated as necessary and appropriate for the treatment of children within Florida's child welfare ...
Foster kids make transition to adulthood through summer program at ...
New Brunswick Home News Tribune - Aug 13, 2009
The 10 students are all aging out of the child welfare system. The program, now in its third year, houses the students at a Rutgers dormitory, ...
Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders
Docuticker - Aug 11, 2009
... use by a parent or other caregiver is a factor in child welfare cases and work more effectively to meet the needs of all family members involved. ...
County's human services department to take more than $6 million cut
Auburn Journal - Aug 11, 2009
$800000 less will be given to fund the county's child welfare services program. That means about a 50 percent increase in the number of cases child ...
GPS units to help Florida child welfare workers
Salt Lake Tribune - Aug 10, 2009
For years Florida's child welfare agency has been mired with stories of lost children, caseworkers who lie about visiting foster homes and children who have ...
Child Welfare League of America, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption ...
Chicago Press Release Services (press release) - Aug 10, 2009
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) and the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute announced today that they are forming a strategic partnership to ...
Adopted man finds his biological family through Facebook
Eagle Tribune - Aug 9, 2009
According to the federal government's online Child Welfare Information Gateway, adults who were adopted as infants or young children are the most common ...
New funding to speed foster care system improvements
Arkansas News - Aug 7, 2009
... Services will receive an additional $9.3 million to help speed up implementation of measures being taken to improve the state's child welfare system. ...
Judge says he intends to approve foster care agreement
Baltimore Sun - Aug 6, 2009
Under the agreement, to come out of federal oversight, the state would have to document improvements to the city's child welfare system for 18 months, ...
FEMA to focus on children's needs during disasters
The Associated Press - Aug 3, 2009
The FEMA group will focus on specific guidance for evacuating, sheltering and relocating children; helping childcare centers, schools and child welfare ...
DCF program designed to keep children at home deemed a hit
The News-Press - Aug 1, 2009
But the family was linked with help through a new local program designed to keep children out of the child welfare system when low to moderate risk abuse or ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (7/17/2009 - 7/31/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Mental Health Service Use During the Transition to Adulthood for ...
Psychiatric Services (subscription) (subscription) - Jul 31, 2009
... Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, a national probability study of children for whom maltreatment was investigated by the child welfare system. ...
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Signs Budget That Cuts $52M ...
Kaiser Family Foundation - Jul 29, 2009
Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Tuesday signed a state budget in which he made $489 million in line-item veto cuts that "will affect child welfare and ...
Foster children focus on self-sufficiency
Business Gazette - Jul 28, 2009
The program is a top choice for teenagers aging out of the child welfare system. "This is not just a free-for-all, although some youth may see it as that," ...
Maine Agency Urges Support of Federal Child Welfare Bill
MaineToday.com - Jul 27, 2009
Stephanie Mitchell, CEO of MAPS Worldwide, a South Portland non-profit organization focusing on child welfare, wants the public to understand why the ...
Florida to give foster care workers a $6.3M upgrade
MiamiHerald.com - Jul 24, 2009
Our Kids worked out kinks in the program, like the need to have 24/7 access to send photos and other documents to the Statewide Automated Child Welfare ...
Florida Shifts Child-Welfare System's Focus to Saving Families
New York Times - Jul 24, 2009
But Florida's radical transformation of its child-welfare system, marked by a wholesale shift in spending, allowed officials to take a chance on Ms. Kimble. ...
Parents' Role in Alamo Case Is a Tricky Question
New York Times - Jul 24, 2009
Four of her underage children remain missing after state child-welfare officials obtained an order seeking to put them in protective care. ...
UW Division of Social Work Joins Regional Workforce Project
University of Wyoming News - Jul 24, 2009
In Wyoming, the Western Child Welfare Workforce selected the Natrona County Department of Family Services to examine ways to strengthen the workforce needs ...
Mental Health Problems Higher for Teens in Child Welfare
Carolina Newswire (press release) - Jul 23, 2009
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC — Youth with a history of involvement with the child welfare system face multiple functional and developmental risks as they ...
First Jobs Academy Helps Youth In Foster Care
WCSH-TV - Jul 22, 2009
"Employers over the past years of our operating tenure have found that learning how to support youth in the child welfare system, understanding their ...
Teen Pregnancy: An Epidemic in Foster Care
TIME - Jul 22, 2009
"And most people working in the child-welfare system are so busy trying to place kids in homes that they don't focus much on pregnancy prevention. ...
$4 million recommended for child welfare
The Detroit News - Jul 20, 2009
Kevin Ryan, a child welfare expert overseeing a class action settlement, said the new programs should be funded and operational by Feb. 1. ...
WHAT STANDS BETWEEN A CHILD AND A LASTING FAMILY
CityLimits.org - Jul 20, 2009
For too many New York City youth, however, foster care stretches on and on, depriving children of the "forever family" that child welfare professionals say ...
Parents in Prison, Children in Foster Care
Gotham Gazette - Jul 19, 2009
The intersection of the child welfare and criminal justice systems is as complex as the relationships entangled in it. The prison system wasn't designed for ...
Adoption groups protest Warner Bros. horror film featuring evil orphan
The Canadian Press - Jul 17, 2009
The letter, co-signed by leaders of 11 adoption and child-welfare groups, noted that an estimated 129000 children are in US foster care system waiting to be ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (7/10/2009 - 7/17/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Crist Applauds Child Welfare Hand Held Devices
WCTV - Jul 16, 2009
“These devices will transform the child welfare system in Florida by greatly reducing the amount of paperwork required by caseworkers – which can take ...
First Phase of VA Child Welfare System Review Completed
WHSV - Jul 10, 2009
The Virginia Department of Social Services has completed the first phase of a federal review of the child welfare system in the Commonwealth. ...
Educational issues face youth aging out of foster care
Philadelphia Public School Notebook - Brian Armstead - Jul 15, 2009
“We [the child welfare system and the school system] need to work more closely together to meet the special needs of kids in foster care. ...
Texas FLDS raid: Defense attorney alleges search too broad ...
Salt Lake Tribune - Brooke Adams - Jul 13, 2009
Child welfare officials removed 439 children from the ranch and kept them in state custody for two months before higher court rulings returned them to their ...
DSS pilot program gets dozens of Yonkers kids back to the classroom
Mid-Hudson News - Jul 11, 2009
Offered only through the Yonkers District Office, staff members in Child Welfare Services focus on family strengths and connection to community-based ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (7/3/2009 - 7/10/2009)
Child Welfare News:
First Phase of VA Child Welfare System Review Completed
WHSV - Jul 10, 2009
The Virginia Department of Social Services has completed the first phase of a federal review of the child welfare system in the Commonwealth. ...
Temporary State Budget Already Leading To Cuts
NBC4i.com - Patrick Preston - Jul 8, 2009
... consumer hotline averaging 1000 calls a day, or to give to counties that rely on funding for child welfare administration or genetic testing services. ...
Palo Alto parents fight for children's return from Nebraska foster ...
Mercury-Register - Patrick May - Jul 8, 2009
The couple and their attorneys hope to persuade the judge to allow Nebraska child-welfare officials to work with their California counterparts and speed the ...
Judge Rules Budget Cannot Lower Children Funding
WJBD Online - Jul 7, 2009
Regarding the budget that has now been vetoed by Governor Pat Quinn, a federal judge said the proposed cuts child-welfare services violated basic, ...
Catt. County To Receive Money To Hire Additional CPS Caseworkers
Jamestown Post Journal - Jul 5, 2009
The positions will be eligible for continued funding under the state child welfare services law, which reimburses local counties for 63.7 percent of their ...
All over again: Grandparents raising grandchildren
Sun newspapers - Dana Sanchez - Jul 5, 2009
Another 86000 live in households headed by other relatives according to data compiled by the AARP Foundation, Child Welfare League of America and others. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (6/26/2009 - 7/3/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Aged-out foster child faces possible homelessnessz
MiamiHerald.com - Carol Marbin Miller - Jul 2, 2009
Child welfare administrators were hoping another state department, the Agency for Persons With Disabilities, would pay Selim's bills when he ''aged out'' of ...
Redesign of state agency helps Northeast Florida families stay ...
Florida Times-Union - Josh Salman - Jul 2, 2009
Since most of the child welfare cases in the area weren't stemmed from substantial physical abuse, social workers were beginning to believe the emotional ...
DSS Proposes New Standards to Protect Children in Custody
KATC - Jul 1, 2009
"The proposed licensing changes were developed using the Child Welfare League of America's standards as a guideline, and we also evaluated the way other ...
Fate of US-born kid of illegal immigrants unclear
The Associated Press - Kate Brumback - Jul 1, 2009
A Guatemalan official wrote a letter to the Georgia child welfare division in July 2008 stating that the boy's aunt in Guatemala said he would be better off ...
Ill. ordered to maintain child-welfare standards
Forbes - Mike Robinson - Jul 1, 2009
CHICAGO -- A federal judge directed state officials to maintain court-ordered child-welfare standards he said ...
» HHS leader promises openness
Omaha World-Herald - Martha Stoddard - Jun 30, 2009
Among them are care problems at a state institution for the developmentally disabled, proposals to privatize child welfare services and gaps in services to ...
New Legal Force to End Racism in Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare
PR Newswire (press release) - Jun 29, 2009
WASHINGTON, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- A new legal force launched by TimeBanks USA aims to bring the ineffective and expensive rote practice of sending ...
New law offices to help CPS families
Austin American-Statesman - Andrea Ball - Jun 27, 2009
Travis County families wading through the child welfare system are getting some new legal advocates. A three-year grant from the Texas ...
Consistency key for improving child welfare services in state
Wyoming Tribune - Bill McCarthy - Jun 27, 2009
CHEYENNE -- A recently released federal review of 65 Wyoming child welfare cases shows a lack of consistent treatment. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (6/19/2009 - 6/26/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Court backs Neb. tribe in kids' cases
KTIV - Jun 26, 2009
The tribe argued a Dakota County juvenile court judge wrongly denied its rights under the Indian Child Welfare Act because of the tribe was not represented ...
Samuels Tapped to Head Administration on Children, Youth and Families
Youth Today - Jamaal Abdul-Alim, John Kelly - Jun 25, 2009
Samuels is regarded as an effective child welfare administrator who relies as much on studies and research in making decisions as he does on his own ...
Judge's concern over lack of family court reporting
Press Gazette - Paul McNally - Jun 25, 2009
The court is able to restrict attendance if a child's welfare required it, or if it is necessary to do so for the safety and protection of parties or ...
DHS Challenges Class Action Status Of Suit
News On 6 - Ashli Sims - Jun 24, 2009
TULSA, OK -- There are new developments in the federal class action lawsuit against Oklahoma's child welfare system. ...
The Advertising Council, HHS' AdoptUsKids Launch New PSAs to ...
SHOOT Online (press release) - Jun 24, 2009
... need for foster care and adoptive families for children in the US Public child welfare system, said Kathy Ledesma, Project Director, AdoptUsKids. ...
DCF reaches out to Haitians in Lee County
The News-Press - Janine Zeitlin - Jun 22, 2009
A team of Haitian Creole-speaking child welfare workers recently began reaching out to Haitian churches and organizations to educate parents and children. ...
2 foster kids finally flourish, but budget cuts threaten foster ...
Chicago Tribune - Jun 21, 2009
The foster mom was no novice to the child welfare system. In 1991, she had taken in the children of relatives. A few years later, when those children moved ...
$1.7 Million to Hire Additional CPS Caseworkers
Hudson Valley Press - Jun 21, 2009
These positions will be eligible for continued funding under the state child welfare services law, which reimburses local counties for 63.7 percent of their ...
Judges, welfare system engage relatives to take role in kids' lives
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Bobby Kerlik - Jun 20, 2009
Even for experienced foster mom Amy Morrison, navigating Allegheny County's child welfare system can be difficult. ...
State working to counter poverty's effect on children
The Colorado Statesman - Lucy McFadden - Jun 20, 2009
Bill Ritter to support Senate Bill 164, Colorado Child's Welfare Training Academy. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Linda Newell, D-Littleton, mandates that ...
Report: Ga. Agencies Improving Child Welfare
News/Talk 750 WSB - Jay Black - Jun 20, 2009
In December, Atlanta US District Judge Marvin Shoob ordered child welfare officials to do a better job of finding permanent homes for those children, ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (6/12/2009 - 6/19/2009)
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Georgia agencies improving child welfare
Augusta Chronicle - Jun 19, 2009
AP ATLANTA --- Georgia has received its highest marks yet for improving child welfare in Fulton and DeKalb counties in a report issued Friday by court ...
Texas CPS 'Bringing Back the Dads' program aims to re-engage ...
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Alex Branch - Jun 19, 2009
At a time when more American children than ever live in homes without biological fathers, it is a tendency that should change, child welfare officials say. ...
Human services workers in budget waiting game
Plainfield Sun - Janet Lundquist - Jun 19, 2009
"Many, many clients that we serve at our Daybreak Center, or families we may meet at child welfare programs, have substance abuse problems," McGowan said. ...
American Indian children faring poorly in foster care
Indian Country Today - Rob Capriccioso - Jun 17, 2009
The law requires participating tribes to provide matching funds if they enter into direct agreements with the federal government to perform child welfare ...
Neglect, abuse cases increase as recession continues
Business Gazette - Andre L. Taylor - Jun 17, 2009
In May 2007, child welfare investigators responded to 257 cases, which increased to 290 cases in May 2008. There were 307 cases last month, she said. ...
Oregon House passes bill on foster kids' medication
OregonLive.com - Michelle Cole - Jun 17, 2009
The agency also requested a full-time medical director to focus on child welfare cases. The full-time medical director won't be hired anytime soon because ...
'It takes one to know one' isn't always a bad thing
Times-Standard - Jessie Faulkner - Jun 14, 2009
Lisa Bartelson, a program manager in Child Welfare Services, said the county is always looking to expand its pool of foster families. ...
Stricter rules proposed on placing children with relatives
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Sharif Durhams - Jun 12, 2009
A team that reviews child deaths called for an array of changes Friday in how the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare supervises children under its care, ...
Department of Children and Family Services could face $460 million ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Dave Mckinney - Jun 12, 2009
SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois' child welfare agency has begun warning hundreds of caregivers to abused and neglected ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (6/5/2009 - 6/12/2009)
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Foster teens face uncertain futures as adults
San Jose Mercury News - J un 11, 2009
About 5000 of the 80000 children in foster care leave the child welfare system each year in California. Of those, 65 percent need housing immediately, ...
Groups pushing for Perry to veto bill on CPS interviews
Dallas Morning News - Jun 11, 2009
Jane Burstain, a lawyer and child welfare expert with the Center for Public Policy Priorities, which advocates for low-income Texans, said child advocates ...
Taskforce Addresses Child Welfare Problems
WLNS - Jun 10, 2009
The child welfare improvement taskforce gave its report at the Capitol. Among the recommendations- more training for caseworkers, judges and others involved ...
Concerns raised over kids trying to get to US
MiamiHerald.com - Jun 10, 2009
``The question of child welfare and who is protecting these children needs to be taken seriously at all levels. '' In Guatemala, minors deported from Mexico ...
Hinckley school has made world a better place
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Jun 9, 2009
As for Good Will-Hinckley, the funding and theories behind the child welfare system on which the institution relied have undergone -- and are still ...
City of Lost Kids A new director tries to fix Baltimore's broken ...
Baltimore City Paper - Jun 9, 2009
Nothing about her screams "force to be reckoned with," but as soon as McGrath starts talking about child welfare, it becomes clear that she is serious about ...
Groundbreaking Heart Gallery Phenomenon Spreads from Coast to ...
PR Newswire (press release) - Jun 9, 2009
... parents this year for 58 children, but these children serve as ambassadors for all the others in the child welfare system who long for a forever family. ...
FDA Docs: Antipsychotic Drugs for Kids Have Risks, Benefits
Newsinferno.com - Jun 8, 2009
... might not be known is that many of those younger patients have connections to child welfare and juvenile justice systems, said Youth Today last week. ...
Calls to Hawaii's domestic violence hotlines are rising
Honolulu Advertiser - Jun 8, 2009
... more domestic abuse, but it's plain from the volume of calls to the agency's child welfare programs that families are struggling with a host of issues. ...
Details of Calif.'s proposed social service cuts
San Jose Mercury News - Jun 7, 2009
Reducing child welfare services by 10 percent for a $70 million savings. The state has about 77000 foster children, some placed with relatives and some with ...
Social workers, Northwestern Oklahoma State University students to ...
NewsOK.com - Jun 6, 2009
The university received a $25000 grant from the Child Welfare Professional Enhancement Program to construct the center. The purpose of the program is to ...
Change in Child Welfare Tactics Urged
San Diego 6 - Jun 5, 2009
SAN DIEGO - Parents should get written notification on why their children are being removed from their custody by San Diego County Child Welfare Services, ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (5/29/2009 - 6/5/2009)
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FDA Committee to Rule on Psych Meds for Youths
Youth Today - Jun 4, 2009
Doctors have been prescribing all three to children for years, and many of them are youths who are known to child welfare and juvenile justice systems. ...
Bloomberg Defends Child Welfare Cuts
NY1 - Jun 3, 2009
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is coming under fire from his chief political opponent over his proposed cuts to the city's child welfare agency. ...
DCF head admits problems in bidding process
MiamiHerald.com - Jun 3, 2009
The head of Florida's child-welfare agency has acknowledged mistakes were made in the bidding process to develop a portable device to help caseworkers track ...
Illinois Governor's signature would mandate cross-reporting of ...
PitchEngine (press release) - Jun 3, 2009
... to report animal abuse if the specialist determines that making such a report would interfere with the performance of child welfare protection duties. ...
Taking Risks for Transition-Age Youth
Connect For Kids - Jun 3, 2009
Leaders from both types of programs met recently to hear about efforts to strengthen supports for young people transitioning out of the child welfare and ...
Colorado Governor Ritter Signs Bills To Help Struggling Families
All American Patriots (press release) - Jun 3, 2009
Colorado Dept. of Human Services: Child care assistance and child welfare information. * Colorado Dept. of Human Services - Fatherhood Initiative and ...
Florida project to track abused, neglected kids stalls
Orlando Sentinel - Jun 2, 2009
By Aaron Deslatte | Tallahassee Bureau Florida's child-welfare agency's plans to launch a new computer system to track abused or neglected children ...
Utah justices hear Navajo adoption case
Deseret News - Jun 1, 2009
... under the Indian Child Welfare Act, which Congress enacted to help protect Native American tribes and the continuation of their respective cultures. ...
Foster rules eased for relatives
The Detroit News - May 31, 2009
The licensing requirement had been contentious among reforms under way in the state's child welfare system. Many were prompted by a 2006 class action ...
Oregon foster child's murder in Mexico prompts new laws
OregonLive.com - May 29, 2009
"Adrianna's journey shows how child welfare agencies in two countries failed a little girl," said Rep. Andy Olson, R-Albany. As the Legislature finished its ...
Adoption System in Need of Native American Foster Parents
Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City - May 29, 2009
The Indian Child Welfare Act was enacted several decades ago to enforce that law. But many native American children since then have been placed in ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (5/22/2009 - 5/29/2009)
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DCF vows better drug oversight
The News-Press - May 29, 2009
By JANINE ZEITLIN • jzeitlin@news-press.com • May 29, 2009 The head of the state's child welfare agency vowed Thursday to improve oversight of the 13 ...
Campaign seeks advocates for children in foster care
Kansas City Star - May 28, 2009
On average, the national CASA association reports, foster children spend more than two years in the child welfare system and can be moved as many as 15 ...
More Florida foster kids than thought are given mental-health drugs
MiamiHerald.com - May 28, 2009
A state database of foster-care records badly underreported the number of foster children on powerful psychiatric drugs, child-welfare bosses revealed. ...
Utah Foster Care in need of Native American foster parents
KSL-TV - May 28, 2009
The reason Sheperd is so in demand is that he's Navajo, and the Indian Child Welfare Act requires Native American children be placed with Native American ...
Maine cited for child welfare program
WBZ - May 28, 2009
(AP) Maine has been cited for its innovative child welfare program which the governor says keeps kids safer and places them more often with their families. ...
County foster care workers feel overworked, unsupported, study finds
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - May 27, 2009
The Child Welfare League of America recommends caseloads between 12 and 15 children per foster care worker. • While the bureau reports turnover rates for ...
County human services agencies must return 1 percent of budget
Wisconsin State Journal - May 24, 2009
The 150 affected agencies provide a range of services, including mental health, child welfare, developmental and physical disabilities, alcohol and drug ...
UPenn Unveils New System to Track Childrens' Welfare
KYW1060.com - May 24, 2009
... "To develop an innovative information technology system for child welfare that will revolutionize the child welfare system and protect children's lives. ...
'Safe haven' law used just once since 2001
Providence Journal - May 23, 2009
... prevention issues that impact the state,” which include promoting the safe haven law, says Stephanie Terry, DCYF's associate director of child welfare. ...
Neb. tribe wants right to intervene in kids' case
NTV - May 23, 2009
In an appeal, the Ponca Tribe says a Dakota County juvenile court judge denied its rights under the Indian Child Welfare Act because the tribe was not ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (5/15/2009 - 5/22/2009)
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Texas bill could lead to more children being in custody of ...
Fort Worth Star Telegram - May 22, 2009
By ALEX BRANCH Child welfare advocates are pushing for late passage of a bill in the Legislature that they say could put more abused and neglected children ...
Foster children turn 18, then turned aside
Cincinnati.com - May 22, 2009
Growing up in the child welfare system and then going to college isn't just an achievement, it is an epic quest. According to a Pew research study, ...
High-tech partners aim to coordinate child welfare
Government Health IT - May 22, 2009
By John Moore A partnership of private and public organizations plans to test a Web-based system to better coordinate child welfare services in Montgomery ...
Children's Administration releases corrective action plans for ...
Access Washington - May 22, 2009
Re-establish the Child Welfare Overview Committee meetings and meet on a quarterly basis with judges, Court Appointed Special Advocates, public defenders, ...
Tribe claims the state didn't follow guidelines.
Salt Lake Tribune - May 21, 2009
But a court battle that pits the state child welfare process against a federal law aimed at protecting the heritage of American Indians threatens to disrupt ...
Gov. Gregoire swears in Dreyfus as new DSHS Secretary
Access Washington - May 20, 2009
For nearly seven years she led this office responsible for child welfare, regulation and licensing of child care facilities, youth development and other ...
Children's Division to Host Accreditation Celebration
Memphis Democrat - May 20, 2009
Achieving and maintaining accreditation means that Missouri's child welfare system will be amongst the finest in the nation. COA's program of quality ...
DCF hosting summer camps for foster children
Naples Daily News - May 20, 2009
Camp Sib was created in 2008 by DCF's Child Welfare Leadership Program Class IV (CWLP). The Program indentifies future leaders in the field of child welfare ...
Governor inks child welfare training bill
Denver Daily News - May 19, 2009
The Child Welfare Training Academy will train approximately 400 new caseworkers and their supervisors. It stems from legislation, Senate Bill 164, ...
Conn. asks state agency to review 'stuck' children
Danbury News Times - May 19, 2009
Connecticut lawmakers are asking a state child welfare agency to track the trends that may be impeding some at-risk youths from getting help. ...
Former foster children tell their stories in hopes of restoring ...
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Ma y 18, 2009
... he said hopes are the power of a child's story holds sway with policy makers so they'll be stingy with proposed cuts in child welfare programs. ...
State probes child welfare safeguards
The Patriot-News - PennLive.com - May 15, 2009
"Given that we oversee the child welfare system as a whole for the commonwealth ... we felt it necessary to start the conversation because we have an ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (5/8/2009 - 5/15/2009)
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Texas health and human services chief to retire this year
Marshall News Messenger - May 15, 2009
And an agency he oversees was key in the 2008 child-welfare raid on a West Texas ranch owned by a polygamist sect. Perry has not named a replacement. ...
Investigators: Scathing report issued in foster child case
KING5.com - May 14, 2009
"I want to personally be confident that a thorough and unbiased investigation of the entire child welfare system as it relates to this child has been done," ...
In Fort Lauderdale, Crist signs two bills aimed at benefiting ...
Broward Politics - May 14, 2009
... in part, to members of Florida Youth Shine, a statewide advocacy group that specializes in foster care and child welfare issues. "You're great advocates ...
State issues final foster care plan
KGO-TV - May 13, 2009
Other recommendations are for changes in law or better collaboration between courts and child welfare agencies. Moreno said that one of the "linchpin ...
Study Aims to Help Preschool-Age Children of Parents with Drinking ...
Newswise (press release) - May 11, 2009
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) estimates that 11 percent of all children live in families where one or more parents abuse alcohol or drugs. ...
Barriers to siblings reuniting are emotional and legal
Daily Comet - May 9, 2009
... a vice president at the Child Welfare League of America, a coalition of groups that advocate for disadvantaged and vulnerable children. ...
Bills would help adopted adults find birth family information
Columbia Missourian - May 9, 2009
Christine White, assistant child welfare director for the Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri, said adoption agencies make a promise with ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (5/1/2009 - 5/8/2009)
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Idaho has a registry of 10000 child abusers
KTVB - May 7, 2009
BOISE -- You've heard of the sex offender registry, but have you ever heard of the child abuser registry? It's designed to protect your children from the ...
Mothers in Crisis Turn to Temporary 'Parents'
New York Times - May 6, 2009
Safe Families must deal with many of the safety and legal concerns of foster care. It makes background checks of potential hosts, visits homes to make sure ...
DCF makes its case for change in procedures
The News-Press - May 6, 2009
Cox asked for volunteers to set up a group akin to the Community Alliance for child welfare to assure continued local input. Nadereh Salim, CEO of the ...
American Humane Launches Center to Address Racial Disparities in ...
Earthtimes (press release) - May 6, 2009
The CDRC's first steps will include integrating the recommendations currently being drafted from the Governor's Child Welfare Action Committee. ...
Court's Monitor: DC Child Services Still Earns Failing Grade
WJLA - May 6, 2009
WASHINGTON - Washington's child welfare agency is still failing to offer adequate care for abused and neglected children, a report by a court-appointed ...
Oklahoma: Judge OKs class action for child-care lawsuit
Joplin Globe - May 5, 2009
It seeks a complete overhaul of the state's child welfare system and alleges DHS has failed to provide for the basic safety of foster children in ways that ...
Records Sealed in Alamo Lawsuit
KATV - May 5, 2009
... judge has ordered some records sealed from public viewing in a lawsuit by the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries against state child-welfare officials. ...
Safe haven or easy way to ditch kid?
Akron Beacon Journal - May 4, 2009
The state doesn't track what happens to the babies after they are surrendered and hasn't studied the effectiveness of the law, but many child-welfare ...
Foster parents provide stability for kids in state custody
Kingsport Times News - May 2, 2009
When a child is removed from his or her home by the Department of Children's Services, Tennessee's public child welfare agency, TRACES and other provider ...
House bill seeks to protect Oregon kids adopted outside US
OregonLive.com - May 1, 2009
Meanwhile, child welfare workers in Oregon relied on phone calls with the girl's abusers and sporadic updates from Mexican authorities to find out how ...
Omaha senator asks for more debate on foster care bill
Lincoln Journal Star - May 1, 2009
... one from each of the congressional districts; a pediatrician; a child clinical psychologist; a social worker with child welfare expertise; an attorney ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (4/24/2009 - 5/1/2009)
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RI judge dismisses foster care suit
TheDay - May 1, 2009
The lawsuit said the state's child welfare system was underfunded, mismanaged and needed a radical overhaul. Because the plaintiffs are minors, ...
From tragedy to joy: Adoption brings together Ottawa County ...
Muskegon Chronicle – May 1, 2009
Even before they knew whether Georgia child welfare officials would agree to the idea, they earned their foster parent certification. ...
Suit Contends City Failed to Prevent Adoption Fraud
New York Times - Apr 30, 2009
The case drew enormous public attention, shedding light on a colossal breakdown in the child welfare system. The children, including some who were ...
High court sides with judges over DCS
Indianapolis Star - Apr 29, 2009
It is an important decision, legal experts and child welfare advocates agree, because a law that went into effect Jan. 1 seemed poised to discourage such ...
Youth in Foster Care Need Extra Public Support in Recessionary Times
PR Web (press release) - Apr 29, 2009
The child welfare community is calling on every citizen to do something positive that will change a lifetime for a child or young adult in foster care -- as ...
Bill would require background checks for child services workers
Sacramento Bee - Apr 29, 2009
A bill that would require county child welfare agencies to conduct such checks passed its first test Tuesday in the Legislature amid guarded questioning by ...
DCFS defends agency before Supervisors
abc7.com - Apr 28, 2009
... Supervisors after a report that 14 children died last year of abuse and neglect, while their families were under scrutiny by the child welfare system. ...
NJ's child welfare system meeting goals
Philadelphia Inquirer - Apr 28, 2009
AP That's the conclusion of a monitor who has been evaluating the Children and Families Department to satisfy a federal consent decree. ...
FOR YOUTH LEAVING CARE, A WAY TO STAY CONNECTED
CityLimits.org - Apr 27, 2009
Child welfare professionals say that support and services for this particular group have been fragmented and insufficient because of inflexible requirements ...
Police, DHS scramble when kids wander lost
Statesman Journal - Apr 26, 2009
"It's a straightforward process centered around the child," said Gene Evans, a spokesman for the Department of Human Services' child-welfare division. ...
Child welfare authorities reconsider star rating system
Pocono Record - Apr 25, 2009
By Dan Berrett Child welfare authorities are taking a fresh look at a rating system that gave positive marks to a local center until the day it was shut ...
DSS interim official gets appointment
2TheAdvocate - Apr 24, 2009
The state social services agency has a new assistant secretary for its Office of Community Services, which oversees the state's child welfare programs. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (4/17/2009 - 4/24/2009)
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Lawyer: Keep Alamo proceedings public
Arkansas Democrat Gazette - Apr 24, 2009
BY ANDY DAVIS Noting that judges have already briefed reporters on developments in the child-welfare cases involving members of the Tony Alamo Christian ...
Supervisors vow to tackle CPS ills; outside agency, grand jury ...
Sacramento Bee - Apr 23, 2009
The decision followed a presentation by the Child Welfare League of America, which said it had met this week with CPS officials and child welfare advocates ...
Committee sends adoption bill to House floor
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com - Apr 22, 2009
The measure would require specific adoption agreements spelling out the responsibilities of child welfare officials on both sides of the border. ...
100 Child Abuse Investigators Could Get Axed
NBC New York - Apr 22, 2009
... for Children's Services in 2006 after the fatal beating of Nixzmary Brown, the 7-year-old who became a sad emblem of the broken child welfare system. ...
Dreyfus named to Washington state job
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Apr 21, 2009
"Susan brings an outstanding record of accomplishment, particularly in the areas of child welfare and mental health services," Gregoire said in a statement. ...
DHS Director Gessow: All-staff message
IowaPolitics.com (press release) - Apr 20, 2009
Thanks to you, we are launching ever-aggressive efforts to eliminate the racial gap in our child welfare system. It was this topic that occupied my first ...
Mike Dunlavy Helps Give Foster Children a Voice
Voice of America - Apr 20, 2009
By Alyssa Zamora Mike Dunlavy chairs the statewide board of Florida Youth SHINE, an advocacy group that specializes in child welfare issues. ...
More older adults across Ariz. adopt older kids
KVOA.com - Apr 18, 2009
But when state child-welfare officials decided their foster child, 8-year-old Margaret, would not be returned to her biological family, the Bartos decided ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (4/10/2009 - 4/17/2009)
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Tribal leaders upset about oversight bill
FayObserver.com - Apr 17, 2009
Sutton told the council he was approached by the group about state legislation similar to the federal Indian Child Welfare Act. The act requires departments ...
Foster parents bring big love to small lives
Times Record News - Apr 15, 2009
The couple, who will receive the Wichita County Child Welfare Board's Patsy Baggett Service Award at a luncheon today, have loved children with a wide ...
Budget Cuts Could Shrink Size Of DHS Staff
WHO-TV - Apr 15, 2009
On top of that, the memo says there could be a 15% reduction in staff that provides ongoing child welfare case management services to children who have been ...
OCFS unveils training website for mandated reporters
Capital News 9 - Apr 14, 2009
RENSSELAER, NY -- Child Welfare and Community Services Deputy Commissioner Laura Velez said, "It's a fine line between not wanting to get someone in trouble ...
Learning in field and office
Tulsa World - Apr 13, 2009
She was there as part of her training to become a child-welfare worker for the state Department of Human Services. Children were believed to be living in ...
US lauds state on foster care improvements
KPUA - Apr 12, 2009
By AP HONOLULU (AP) — The federal government is commending the state for improvements to Hawaii's child welfare system since 2003 that have reduced the ...
A journey of awareness for foster care
Boston Globe - Apr 11, 2009
"Back in the day child welfare offices did. They weren't sensitive to keep families intact." Harlow is also aware of that mission. At the event yesterday he ...
Preparing Effective Contracts in Privatized Child Welfare Systems
Youth Today - Apr 10, 2009
by Jen Russell This new guide underscores the reliance on privatized services by public child welfare agencies, and stresses the need for - and best ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (4/3/2009 - 4/10/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Alamo ministry sues Ark. for seizing children
The Associated Press - Apr 9, 2009
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court, lawyer Phillip E. Kuhn accuses state child welfare officials of conducting a "systematic, persistent and ...
Neese Selected As DSS Children’s Division Director
Memphis Democrat - Apr 9, 2009
A noted child welfare advocate with extensive experience in managing Missouri’s child welfare programs has been selected to head the Department of Social ...
How Federal Legislation Impacts Child Welfare Service Delivery
Docuticker - Apr 8, 2009
... of the process by which legislative actions and policy changes at the Federal level impact State and Tribal child welfare systems and service delivery. ...
New Law Will Boost Tribal Adoptions
Daily Yonder - Apr 8, 2009
Until now, tribes have received more limited federal money for child welfare services through the Indian Child Welfare Act and contract services with the ...
The American Psychological Association Issues New Guidelines For ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration) - Apr 8, 2009
The child's welfare is paramount. While a parent's concerns need to be considered and may be forcefully advocated by a parent (this may occur in cases where ...
Too Old for Foster Care, and Facing the Recession
New York Times - Apr 7, 2009
Yet, many child-welfare advocates worry that a growing number will still end up homeless. “They get a lot of resources until they’re 21, ...
State looking to reduce caseworker turnover rate
Legislative Gazette - Apr 7, 2009
David A. Paterson also issued an Executive Proclamation March 12 that declared 2009 “Year of The Child Welfare Caseworker.” OCFS highlighted a 2007 ...
School caters to child welfare students
7Online.com - Apr 6, 2009
It is the first charter school created to include children of the child welfare system. Some are in foster care and some are in transition. ...
Exclusive: Agency overhauls policies after deaths
The State - Apr 4, 2009
It had been voluntary for all 1000 child welfare workers. • Sought help from USC experts in better evaluating risks of abuse or neglect in all families. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (3/27/2009 - 4/3/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Child Maltreatment 2007
Docuticker - Apr 3, 2009
See a list of all Child Maltreatment Reports. The data are presented in aggregate and by state, and trends are reported when available. ...
DSS to make key investments to ensure child safety
Sulphur Southwest Daily News - Apr 3, 2009
For the Fiscal Year 2008 alone, more than 16-percent of child welfare workers left OCS. Those numbers are higher in Calcasieu Parish, where OCS offices have ...
Foster Care At Issue
Tampa Tribune - Apr 3, 2009
By CATHERINE DOLINSKI TALLAHASSEE - Budget cuts proposed for child welfare could roll back years of progress and jeopardize millions in federal funding, ...
Audit finds Human Services falls short monitoring foster ...
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com - Apr 2, 2009
by Michelle Cole, The Oregonian SALEM -- More than one year ago, child welfare officials pledged better oversight of the psychiatric drugs given to one in ...
Further DES cuts could leave thousands of at-risk people without ...
Arizona Capitol Times - Apr 2, 2009
... 200 fewer parents in the child-welfare system receiving substance-abuse treatment, and 300 fewer disabled people receiving vocational rehabilitation. ...
Rewrite weakens DCS bill, critics say
Indianapolis Star - Apr 1, 2009
About 30 other states have some sort of ombudsman program that deals with state or local child welfare programs. Indiana's proposal mirrors many others in ...
Nebraska Improves In Child, Family Services
eMaxHealth.com - Apr 1, 2009
The July 2008 Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) of Nebraska’s child welfare system by the federal Administration on Children and Families (ACF) shows ...
Gregoire names Susan Dreyfus as new DSHS secretary
The Olympian - Mar 31, 2009
For nearly seven years she led this office responsible for child welfare, regulation and licensing of child care facilities, youth development and other ...
Report: Fulton taking better legal care of foster children
Atlanta Journal Constitution - Mar 30, 2009
... especially given the dangerous problems in the broader Atlanta child welfare system that the state is still struggling to reform,” said Ira Lustbader, ...
St. Aemilian-Lakeside to take over child welfare contract
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Mar 30, 2009
The agency will assume responsibility for services in the southern region of the state-run Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare. ...
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY STUDY FINDS SOME BENEFITS TO PLACING ...
Colorado State University (press release) - Mar 30, 2009
For example, social workers and child welfare agencies struggle with identifying the appropriate level of oversight to provide to kinship caregivers - and ...
Group assists former foster youths
San Diego Union Tribune - Mar 30, 2009
The group's assistance addresses a long-overlooked portion of the child-welfare system – those youths who have been dependents of the court system, ...
Improving the Futures of Foster Youth, New Report Finds Benefits ...
OBSNews.com - Mar 27, 2009
“California’s leadership on child welfare issues provides us an opportunity to capture savings and reinvest them in our foster youth,” said Beall. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (3/20/2009 - 3/27/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Nebraska still falls short in child welfare report
KCAU - Mar 27, 2009
Nebraska met 5 of the seven system measures, which gauge the structure of the entire child welfare system. Todd Landry, who oversees child and family ...
SW Fla. child welfare agency forced to slash budget
The News-Press - Mar 27, 2009
By JANINE ZEITLIN • jzeitlin@news-press.com • March 27, 2009 The organization contracted by the Department of Children and Families to run the child welfare ...
Web Site Helps Foster Children Find Permanent Families
The Epoch Times - Mar 26, 2009
... with the states in working together to improve the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families involved in the child welfare system. ...
Study Reports More Deaths of Children Linked to Child-Welfare System
New York Times - Mar 25, 2009
By JULIE BOSMAN A new report shows that more children in families said to be known to the New York City child-welfare system died in 2008 than in any of the ...
US States to Improve Outcomes for Youth Transitioning From Foster Care
eGov monitor - Mar 25, 2009
States will be represented by three participants, including governor’s office staff, state policymakers and key stakeholders involved in the child welfare ...
State reports on Milwaukee child welfare efforts
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Mar 24, 2009
The 2008 progress report the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare presented to the child welfare community Tuesday afternoon is critical in understanding how ...
Homeless youth numbers on the rise
Amador Ledger-Dispatch - Mar 24, 2009
With few exceptions, the county's current safety net of services can't extend to putting homeless families into permanent housing, even when child welfare ...
DC organization works with legal officials and social workers to ...
Examiner.com - Mar 24, 2009
Nonetheless, one DC organization, which acts on behalf of and along with DC youths, ensures youths within the District child welfare system have a fighting ...
Foster care endangered by economic slowdown
Asheville Citizen-Times - Mar 23, 2009
... to the point where you don't lose money doing it,” said Kevin Kelley, assistant section chief for the NC Division of Child Welfare in Raleigh. ...
Retiring county leader made name for herself for solving problems
Colorado Springs Gazette - Mar 20, 2009
The idea spread throughout Colorado and gained national attention, said Lloyd Malone, director of the division of child welfare for the Colorado Department ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (3/13/2009 - 3/20/2009)
Child Welfare News:
State expects most laid-off La Causa child welfare workers to be ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Mar 19, 2009
The south side agency has operated under an $11 million contract with the bureau of child welfare and handled 650 cases. In December, La Causa notified the ...
Budget would cut social work training
Greensboro News Record - Mar 19, 2009
By Mark Binker A joint UNCG-NC A&T training program that teaches social workers how to navigate complex child-welfare problems would be cut under the budget ...
Group Wants New Caseworkers For Child Welfare
WISN.com - Mar 18, 2009
MILWAUKEE -- The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families is hiring a new agency to handle Milwaukee’s child welfare cases, and the group Citizens ...
Group helps dads navigate child welfare system
Kansas.com - Mar 18, 2009
WICHITA - Craig Warren has experienced the child welfare system in the past 11 years as a foster parent, an adoptive parent, and a client when his adopted ...
Report to Congress on Barriers and Success Factors in Adoptions ...
Docuticker - Mar 17, 2009
In the first study, a nationwide purposive sample of 300 families seeking to adopt children with special needs from the public child welfare system was ...
North Carolina Selects Cúram Software to Deploy Social Service ...
Earthtimes (press release) - Mar 17, 2009
These programs, which are supervised by DHHS and administered by each county’s social service department, include Child Welfare, Adult Services, ...
Unique social work program offers online degrees
YourHub.com - Mar 16, 2009
... case managers, caseworkers and social workers in a variety of settings, including child welfare, mental health, developmental disabilities, ...
Alaska Child and Family Services Review Reveals Mixed Results
KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska - Mar 16, 2009
The review began with an analysis of Alaska's child welfare data and a Statewide Assessment developed by the Office of Children's Services, Department of ...
Department of Health and Human Services Awards $2.2M Contract to ...
Business Wire (press release) - Mar 16, 2009
As part of the initiative, the bureau created five regional Child Welfare Implementation Centers (ICs), each of which will establish formal partnerships ...
Adoption Policy Gives Married Couples Preference
MSNBC - Mar 14, 2009
... and foster care is drawing criticism from state and national organizations involved with child welfare and from the American Civil Liberties Union. ...
Last FLDS youth in custody could soon return to family
KSL-TV - Mar 13, 2009
The state's child welfare agency has recommended the 14-year-old girl be allowed to live with her aunt. Officials say the woman has undergone a home study ...
Foster kids find college help after 'aging out'
Washington Post - Mar 13, 2009
... children are in the foster-care system, according to the National Working Group on Foster Care and Education, a coalition of child-welfare groups. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (3/6/2009 - 3/13/2009)
Child Welfare News:
State names new child services chief
Omaha World-Herald - Mar 12, 2009
LINCOLN — Todd Reckling, a 15-year veteran of child welfare services, will become the new director of the children and family services division of the ...
Bill would revamp child-welfare system with private contractors
Seattle Times - Mar 11, 2009
Lawmakers are considering a proposal to radically transform the state's child-welfare system by requiring the state to hire private contractors to work with ...
Children here are removed at twice the national rate: Audit of DHS ...
Tulsa Beacon - Mar 10, 2009
Currently, law enforcement can remove a child from the home and place the child in DHS custody without the involvement of a child welfare worker. ...
Ore. slows international adoptions of foster kids
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Mar 11, 2009
A 2007 adoption case involving 2-year-old Gabriel Allred drew international media attention when child welfare officials decided he should be raised in ...
DHS reform measure passes Oklahoma House
Tulsa World - Mar 10, 2009
Samson Buck, D-Ardmore, said he is concerned that the new rules may encourage DHS child welfare workers to leave children in abusive homes. ...
Arizona child-welfare agency cuts 112 case workers
FOX11AZ.com - Mar 10, 2009
AP PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona's child-welfare agency has laid off 112 case workers, leaving the staff about 15 percent smaller than it was earlier this year. ...
Governor Schwarzenegger Supports Extending Federal Foster Care ...
Imperial Valley News - Mar 9, 2009
... to the alternative foster care programs for youth in need of additional support, and provides for the continuation of federal child welfare funding. ...
Children of the System
Newsweek - Mar 9, 2009
New research supports a radical shift in child-welfare policy for the thousands of teens who 'age out' of foster care at age 18, only to face high rates of ...
Human services chief seeks to aim high in hard job
Detroit Free Press - Mar 8, 2009
But he says the agency is having to balance its mission to help the poor with other important goals, such as adding 641 child welfare workers by Sept. ...
Oklahoma DHS looking into breach of records
NewsOK.com - Mar 6, 2009
BY JAY F. MARKS The state Department of Human Services is investigating how a child welfare worker’s records ended up with a local TV station. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (1/16/2009 - 1/23/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Bill would improve communication between agencies dealing with youths
Baltimore Sun, United States - Jan 22, 2009
But DeVore said it is crucial to remove the parental consent barrier when it comes to talking to other child welfare agencies. "Many of these children have ...
Vulnerable Children Fare Well With Relatives, Study Finds
Science Daily (press release) - Jan 21, 2009
Reflecting changes in child welfare practice and policy around the world, a substantial proportion of children removed from the home for abuse or neglect ...
Judge dismisses part of DHS suit
KSWO, OK - Jan 21, 2009
The two actions dismissed dealt with alleged violations of the federal Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 and third-party beneficiary rights ...
Bias alleged in state foster care
DetNews.com, MI - Jan 19, 2009
Researchers from the Washington, DC-based Center for the Study of Social Policy found that child welfare workers often believed black children would be ...
SW Fla. service frees kids, parents from child-welfare system
The News-Press, FL - Jan 18, 2009
The network reports high success: 96 percent of the children whose families entered the Quality Life program did not return to the child-welfare system ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (1/9/2009 - 1/16/2009)
Child Welfare News:
Agency to study Milwaukee County foster care
TMCnet – Jan 15, 2009
The study was commissioned in honor of the late Jim Ryan, a former social worker and a long-time advocate for child welfare who died in November 2007. ...
Lending a hand to foster kids
Vallejo Times-Herald, CA - Jan 15, 2009
These providers are bolstered by a $300000 grant to implement the California Connected by 25 Initiative, a program spearheaded by the county's Child Welfare ...
How Mental Health Care Affects Outcomes For Foster Children
Science Daily (press release) - Jan 14, 2009
Based upon child welfare and Medicaid records, the study targeted children who received inpatient psychiatric care, because it was an easily identifiable ...
Ark. official Kids in Alamo case are being hidden
The Southern Ledger, TN - Jan 14, 2009
Child welfare officials in California previously visited an Alamo compound north of Los Angeles to search for children, but none were taken into custody. ...
State Commission of Indian Affairs to meet in Fayetteville on Thursday
FayObserver.com, NC - Jan 13, 2009
The tribe has asked for legislation that would create an Indian Child Welfare Act for state-recognized tribes. The proposed legislation would help recruit ...
Deadline set in lawsuit against DHS
KSWO, OK - Jan 12, 2009
She says child welfare workers have too many cases, there are too few foster homes and some of the foster homes are not appropriate for children and she ...
Never too old for a home
Centre Daily Times, PA - Jan 12, 2009
"The child welfare system is swamped," Braun says, "with too few resources and too many children in need of healing." Still, the duo are ready for the many ...
State sees shortage of social workers
Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - Jan 11, 2009
Under pressure from a federal lawsuit to hire more caseworkers to improve services, Mississippi's child welfare agency is battling low wages and a budget ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (1/2/2009 - 1/9/2009)
NRCOI Late Winter/Spring Teleconferences Announced - Jan 9, 2009
The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational
Improvement (NRCOI) has announced Late Winter/Spring 2009 teleconferences
on the following topics: training in rural areas, systems of care,
agency/court collaboration, evidence based practice and child welfare
supervision. For complete descriptions of these sessions and lists of
presenters, see the NRCOI website at www.nrcoi.org/tele.htm. To register for these free sessions, go directly to the registration form.
Child Welfare News:
Foster child beats the odds
The South Florida Times, FL – Jan 9, 2009
Willie addressed a courtroom filled with court and child welfare agency personnel who were craving a story with a happy ending. ...
Judge nixes dismissal of DHS lawsuit
Tulsa World, OK – Jan 8, 2009
By DAVID HARPER World Staff Writer A federal judge declined Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks top-to-bottom reform of the state's child-welfare ...
More US Children Face Poverty
AFL-CIO, DC – Jan 8, 2009
The report compiles the most recent and reliable national and state-by-state data on poverty, health, child welfare, youth at risk, early childhood ...
Boy caught in the middle as dad & couple vie for custody
Philadelphia Daily News, PA - Jan 8, 2009
Under the Adoption and Safe Families Act, child-welfare agencies like DHS must now take steps to terminate parental rights for parents whose child has been ...
Child Deaths Led to Excessive Foster Care Placements, Critics Say
Washington Post, United States - Jan 7, 2009
... which includes Kevin Ryan, who is credited with helping to reform New Jersey's state child welfare system when he was its commissioner. ...
DRC announces full implementation of SACWIC across Ohio
Trading Markets (press release), CA - Jan 7, 2009
... announced on 7 December that the Ohio statewide child welfare information system SACWIS is now fully operational in all 88 Ohio counties.
Darling calls for audit of child welfare agencies
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Jan 5, 2009
By Crocker Stephenson of the Journal Sentinel Questioning whether Wisconsin's child welfare system operates in the best interests of the children it seeks ...
DHS seeks hundreds of new workers in budget request
Tulsa World, OK - Jan 4, 2009
The last time the agency added child welfare caseworkers was in 2006 after the Legislature passed reform measures in the Kelsey Briggs Act, ...
State's mental health director to retire
Daily Citizen, GA - Jan 3, 2009
ATLANTA — After dedicating more than 30 years to Georgia’s juvenile justice, mental health and child welfare systems, Gwen Skinner, director of the Division ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (12/26/2008 - 1/2/2009)
Child Welfare News:
New law allows county supervisors to examine files of children who ...
Press-Enterprise, CA - Jan 2, 2009
... the ability to review -- in closed session -- the case files of children who die while under the supervision of child welfare services or foster care. ...
Teen Defends Evangelist Alamo in Leaked Web Video
ABC News - Jan 1, 2009
In a more than two-hour interview, the girl told a child welfare official that Alamo's hands and words toward heaven worked miracles. ...
Safe haven boy may be reunited with mother
Omaha World-Herald, NE - Dec 31, 2008
Making children wards of the state allows them to get help paid for by Medicaid and child welfare dollars. In this case, the boy's paternal grandmother left ...
Foster care lawsuit ends after 15 years
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Dec 30, 2008
By Julia Lyon After 15 years, the landmark child welfare case that brought extensive reform and oversight to the Utah foster care system has finally ended. ...
Mental Health and Substance Use Problems of Parents Involved With ...
Psychiatric Services (subscription) - Dec 29, 2008
The national study interviewed child welfare caseworkers about the problems of and services provided to 2109 families. RESULTS: Of parents with mental ...
Child services see racial gap
Kansas.com, KS - Dec 27, 2008
Neither does the Wichita branch NAACP, which has dedicated about five years engaging other child welfare agencies, advocates and state officials to examine ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (12/19/2008 - 12/26/2008)
Child Welfare News:
With Cuyahoga on board, foster child tracking system fully ...
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - Dec 26, 2008
Early reviews are good from county officials, who were once so worried about glitches and crashes to the Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information ...
For teen in foster-care system, a place to call home
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Dec 25, 2008
For the 17-year-old Orlandoan whose mother dropped him off at a child-welfare office when he was 6, it marks the first time in 10 years he'll spend the ...
NY: Family violence main cause of female homicides
Newsday, NY - Dec 24, 2008
Another state report adding data about hot line phone calls, orders of protection, child welfare cases and related crimes should be out by the end of ...
Report: Children in sect suffered neglect, abuse
Burlington Hawk Eye, United States - Dec 24, 2008
... children living there by doing nothing to protect them from becoming future victims, Texas child welfare officials said in a report released Tuesday. ...
Nevada Ranks Poorly in Child Welfare Report
KLAS-TV, NV - Dec 23, 2008
Nevada continues to wallow among the worst states in the union when it comes to child care and welfare. A damaging new report from the group Every Child ...
Hundreds of DCFS kids left in limbo in inappropriate settings ...
Chicago Tribune, United States - Dec 22, 2008
Instead, the 14-year-old has been living at a psychiatric unit at Rush University Medical Center, the unintended victim of an Illinois child-welfare system ...
Program's aim: Keep foster kids in community
Green Bay Press Gazette, WI - Dec 21, 2008
Andrea Peltier works for the Children's Service Society of Wisconsin, the state's largest private, nonprofit provider of child welfare services. ...
Advocates say at-risk children waiting longer for state help
Arkansas News, AR - Dec 19, 2008
Earlier this year, Beebe ordered creation of a task force to conduct a top-to-bottom review of Arkansas’ child welfare system and develop recommendations to ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (12/12/2008 - 12/19/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Georgia to increase efforts to place foster kids
Macon Telegraph, GA – Dec 19, 2008
... several million dollars over the next few years to strengthen DFCS' ability to find permanent homes for some of its most difficult child welfare cases. ...
DCF child-abuse probes get better marks
Cherry Hill Courier Post, NJ – Dec 19, 2008
By MICHAEL SYMONS • Gannett State Bureau • December 19, 2008 TRENTON — Child-welfare workers are getting better at investigating child-abuse allegations in ...
Collins seeks youth mental health care
Bangor Daily News, ME - Dec 18, 2008
It also would establish a task force to make recommendations on how to improve mental health access and services in the child welfare and juvenile justice ...
DHS asks state for support in better staffing
Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - Dec 15, 2008
The state's child-welfare agency asked lawmakers Monday for support of a new payment plan to hire and retain additional social workers, as well as patience ...
Lawmakers, judge making strides in juvenile justice
Press-Register - al.com, AL - Dec 14, 2008
By ROBERT McCLENDON When it comes to overall child welfare, Alabama historically has ranked at or near the bottom of nationwide studies, because in no small ...
Genesee County cuts down on missing foster kids but some still ...
The Flint Journal - MLive.com, MI - Dec 13, 2008
Stacie Bowens, acting child welfare bureau director for Genesee County DHS, said caseworkers are trying to involve foster children in decisions about where ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (12/05/2008 - 12/12/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Couple forced to give adopted baby back to Native American tribe
KSL-TV, UT - Dec 12, 2008
This week, a district judge ruled in favor of the tribe, citing the Indian Child Welfare Act which works to preserve Native American tribes. ...
Review Board Suggests Changes to Neb. Foster Care System
KOLN, NE - Dec 12, 2008
"The child welfare system is really designed to look at kids who have beenabused or neglected and treat and make sure those kids are safe," said Gene Klein, ...
State Calls for Milwaukee Child Welfare Reform
Today's TMJ4, WI - Dec 12, 2008
Wisconsin's Department of Secretary of Children and Families (DCF) called for major changes in Milwaukee's child welfare system in the wake of the abuse ...
AT&T Helps Our Kids of Miami-Dade Incorporate the Latest Wireless ...
TMC Net, CT - Dec 10, 2008
About Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe, Inc. As the local lead agency for child welfare in Miami and the Keys, Our Kids' goal is to empower families to build ..
Judges help prospective foster, adoptive parents navigate system
Kansas City Star, MO - Dec 9, 2008
KVC represents one of the largest child welfare continuums of care in the nation, providing services to 54 Kansas counties, 26 West Virginia counties and ...
Judge: Calif. Foster Care Reimbursement Violates Federal Law
KCBS, CA - Dec 9, 2008
... for child rearing expenses violates the Child Welfare Act. The money foster parents receive from the state averages about $505 a month per child, ...
DNA taken from polygamous sect newborn in Texas
The Associated Press - Dec 8, 2008
Child welfare authorities have said in court filings that investigators believe the girl, now 17, was married to a man in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus ...
Never too old for home
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Dec 6, 2008
"The child welfare system is swamped," Braun says, "with too few resources and too many children in need of healing." Still, the duo are ready for the many ...
Florida Steps in Early, and Troubled Teenagers Respond
New York Times, United States - Dec 5, 2008
By law, the shelters cannot serve children who are facing juvenile charges or families under investigation by the child-welfare office. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (11/14/2008 - 12/05/2008)
Child Welfare News:
PROTECTING CHILDREN AT RISK CPS to come under more scrutiny
Tucson Citizen, AZ - Dec 4, 2008
Jonathan Paton, who wrote a bill this year that imposed several reforms on the state's child welfare agency, said that he and other legislators will keep up ...
Foster care protester knows pain of losing a child
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Dec 3, 2008
The handful of protesters who stood outside the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare on Wednesday morning carried posters demanding that foster children be ...
Director of state's child welfare agency resigns
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Dec 3, 2008
By JOHN IWASAKI Cheryl Stephani took the helm of Washington's child welfare agency in May 2005, a time of budgetary woes and mandated reforms. ...
Arkansas officials seize 6 Alamo compound children
The Associated Press - Dec 3, 2008
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas child welfare officials seized six more children Wednesday from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries as authorities in ...
Governor Ritter wants to revamp Colorado's human-services system
Westword, CO - Dec 3, 2008
"That was one of the things that led to the formation of the Child Welfare Action Committee," says Art Atwell, the state's director of Workforce Development ...
Turnover rate of DHS case workers slows
KFSM, AR - Dec 2, 2008
AP - December 2, 2008 10:25 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The turnover rate of child welfare workers at the Oklahoma Department of Human Services is slowing, ...
Changes in state law try to get foster kids out of limbo
Detroit Free Press, United States - Nov 30, 2008
By ROBIN ERB A settlement agreement between Michigan's child welfare system and a New York-based child advocacy group, as well as recent changes in state ...
For foster kids, a tough road to college
Connecticut Post, CT - Nov 29, 2008
"We always try to pass for normal kids, but at the bottom, there's always more," she told post-secondary educators and child welfare professionals at a ...
For Separated Families, City Never Seemed Bigger
New York Times, United States - Nov 29, 2008
In fact, a report this summer in Child Welfare Watch, a policy journal, showed that while scores of parents had to travel long distances to see their ...
A little girl's happy new beginning at her Oakland home
Tri Valley Herald, CA - Nov 26, 2008
"Looking around the US back at that time, the DeBolts realized the child welfare system was really not equipped to deal with special children," Ebert said. ...
Fla. court throws out law banning adoption by gays
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Nov 26, 2008
Lederman, who oversees Miami's juvenile and child-welfare courts, is the second judge this year to declare the state's blanket ban on adoption by gay men ...
Adoption effort gets "phenomenal" results
Denver Post, CO - Nov 25, 2008
... adoption orientations in the seven participating counties in one full year, said Dr. Sharen Ford of the Colorado Division of Child Welfare Services. ...
Governor launches investigation into SRS
KSN-TV, KS - Nov 25, 2008
... begin the community to community, statewide look into why there are a disproportionate number of minority children in the state's child welfare system. ...
Calif. Boy Final Teen Taken Under Neb. Law
CBS News, NY - Nov 24, 2008
(AP PHOTO) Warning signs, state-by-state child services information and a history of child welfare reforms. (AP) A 14-year-old California boy became the ...
Foster families face many challenges
Foster's Daily Democrat, NH - Nov 23, 2008
Virginia Marriner, Maine's director of child welfare policy and practice, a division of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services in Augusta, ...
State hoping more older children will be adopted
Morgan Messenger, WV - Nov 20, 2008
Justice Davis said the court system and Department of Health and Human Resources are working together in many ways to improve the child welfare system. ...
UNLV programs audit state’s child welfare system
UNLV The Rebel Yell, NV - Nov 20, 2008
According to a press release, a series of random, unannounced visits over a 10-month period were made to the three state agencies that provide child welfare ...
State foster care referrals on the rise
The Patriot-News - PennLive.com, PA - Nov 19, 2008
And it's a problem that may worsen in the tough economy, some child welfare workers say, adding that referrals to their agencies are increasing. ...
Man's journey through foster care makes him agent of change
Bakersfield Californian, CA - Nov 15, 2008
Will Hornsby, a child welfare specialist at the Children’s Bureau, a section of the US Department of Health and Human Services, helps conduct reviews of ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (11/07/2008 - 11/14/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Newsletter from the NRCOI - Implementing Change at the Local Level: Strategies for Success
Teen campaign: Public service announcement
Nov 14, 2008
This multi-media news release of the new Teen campaign public service announcements (PSAs) is the next phase of the national adoption recruitment campaign of the Ad Council, in partnership with the Children’s Bureau and AdoptUsKids. The link will take you to the new TV, Radio, and Print ads being released during November, National Adoption Month
Social Services to hand out ‘Bags of Love’
Jamestown Sun, ND - Nov 14, 2008
Em Burkett, child welfare supervisor at Stutsman County Social Services, said there are currently about 20 children in foster care and that’s been the ...
As number of children hits 34, safe haven law set to change
Omaha World-Herald (subscription), NE - Nov 13, 2008
Gwen Howard of Omaha said the proposed safe haven procedures would undermine traditional adoption and child welfare practices. The Nebraska Medical and ...
Mom Who Rattled DCF Gets 55 Years In Torture Case
Tampa Tribune, FL - Nov 12, 2008
The case exposed massive cracks in the state's child welfare system and resulted in the creation of a task force that changed the way workers report ...
Osage Nation hosts foster, adoptive family resource recruitment event
Native Times - Nov 12, 2008
... to children in need of substitute care while their parents work to overcome the difficulties that lead to becoming involved in the child welfare system. ...
‘Adoption Saturday’ brings children and families together
Daily Freeman Journal, IA - Nov 10, 2008
The event, known as "Adoption Saturday," was a time for judges, social workers and child-welfare advocates to come together and finalize adoptions for ...
New law helps prosecute child abuse
Coos Bay World, OR - Nov 10, 2008
Nancylee Stewart, DHS’ child welfare manager for Coos and Curry counties, said the number of cases her staff handles hasn’t increased since the law passed, ...
County joins statewide data system
Akron Beacon Journal, OH - Nov 9, 2008
By Rick Armon Summit County Children Services will make the switch today to a new, $92 million statewide child-welfare computer system that once had been ...
The pros and cons of a diverse home
The News-Press, FL - Nov 8, 2008
Research shows minority children wait longer than white children for adoption, are over-represented in the child welfare system and at higher risk for not ...
Audit: Changes needed in Nevada child welfare system
KTVN, NV - Nov 8, 2008
AP - November 8, 2008 8:55 PM ET LAS VEGAS (AP) - According to an audit ordered by state legislators, the state's child welfare system is plagued by ...
Report says state removing more kids from homes
Chicago Tribune, United States - Nov 8, 2008
AP INDIANAPOLIS - A report by a child welfare reform group says Indiana is taking an increasing number of children from their families, a number that the ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (10/31/2008 - 11/07/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Newsletter from the NRCOI - Implementing Change at the Local Level: Strategies for Success
Lyon Commission to consider grant to fund 'Differential Response ...
Reno Gazette Journal, NV - Nov 7, 2008
Differential Response makes a wider set of responses to reports of abuse and neglect available to the child welfare system, providing localities more ...
SSW Professors Evaluate, Strengthen Child Welfare Workforce with ...
UAlbany Campus News, NY - Nov 6, 2008
The project, The New York State Child Welfare Workforce Initiative (CWWI), fills a significant gap in New York's continuum of care for children in the child ...
Ark. voters pass lottery, support adoption ban
cbs4denver.com, CO - Nov 5, 2008
''I think the voters realized that this was about child welfare, rather than the rights of adults,'' said Jerry Cox, the council's president. ...
National Adoption Month & Foster Care
ABC 4, Salt Lake City - Nov 6, 2008
Private agencies sometimes contract with the public child welfare agency to place foster children; they also may place US infants, or children from other ...
DC Agency For Children Cuts Backlog Of Cases
Washington Post, United States - Nov 5, 2008
By Petula Dvorak The District's child welfare agency is beginning to get its backlog of investigations under control and fulfill promises made in a court ...
Abuse Trial Opens in Massachusetts
New York Times, United States - Nov 4, 2008
... his stepdaughter into a coma in 2005 in a case that spurred an unusual end-of-life battle and led Massachusetts to overhaul its child welfare laws. ...
Judge allows request to use confidential Children Services records ...
LimaOhio.com, OH - Nov 4, 2008
Ugalde is suing caseworkers Tobias Adkins, Christine Roma and Brent Bunke, as well as child welfare supervisor Michelle Vorhees. ...
Arizona Recently Had Custody of Teen Dropped Off in Nebraska
Phoenix New Times, AZ - Nov 4, 2008
... Human Services officials saying "Nebraska officials had not yet determined whether they need to work with Arizona child welfare officials on the case. ...
Georgia gets new child welfare chief
Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA - Nov 3, 2008
Mark A. Washington, 38, the former head of Kentucky’s child welfare system, takes over as the agency faces severe budget cuts due to the slowing economy, ...
Three children surrendered since ‘Baby Moses’ law enacted
Rapid City Journal, SD - Nov 2, 2008
If a surrendered child is of Native American descent, the specific tribe will be notified, and the Indian Child Welfare Act will be followed, said Jahnig. ...
UM collaborates with universities to improve national child ...
Media Newswire (press release), NY - Oct 31, 2008
The national partners include the National Indian Child Welfare Association, the Child Welfare League of America, and the Universities of North Carolina, ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (10/24/2008 - 10/31/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Voters Asked To Decide Fate Of Adopted, Foster Children
The Morning News, AR - Oct 31, 2008
1, it protects a child's welfare," Cox said Thursday during a news conference at the Springdale Holiday Inn. "No. 2, it seeks to blunt a gay agenda, ...
24th Child Dumped Under Safe Haven Law
CBS News, NY - Oct 30, 2008
Share/Embed Warning signs, state-by-state child services information and a history of child welfare reforms. (AP) A 17-year-old boy left at an Omaha ...
Residents to help CPS reach goals
Camp Verde Journal, AZ - Oct 30, 2008
By Greg Nix The Family to Family Program, created by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is changing the face of child welfare. The program asks the community to ...
Report finds NJ child welfare workers better trained, supervised
NJ.com, NJ - Oct 30, 2008
by Susan K. Livio/The Star-Ledger New Jersey's child welfare workers are better trained, supervised and no longer burdened with overwhelming caseloads five ...
Nebraska governor calls special legislative session to amend 'safe ...
JURIST - Oct 30, 2008
Nebraska was the last of the fifty US states to enact its infant safe haven law [ Child Welfare Information Gateway backgrounder], but all of the others ...
Social Services trying out late fee
Wadena Pioneer Journal, MN - Oct 29, 2008
Examples of existing debts include detox, elderly waiver-medical assistance spend down, child welfare, child welfare-corrections, and Maxis claims when the ...
Child welfare institute focuses on families, overwhelmed caseworkers
Detroit Free Press, United States - Oct 29, 2008
Now, the former child protective services caseworker is part of the new National Child Welfare Workforce Institute, a federally funded agency charged with ...
Foster runaways risk prostitution
Chicago Tribune, United States - Oct 28, 2008
"Victimization of abused and neglected children has been with us since the beginning of child welfare," said Kendall Marlowe, Illinois Department of ...
Living the statistics: Jessica Peterson
Statesman Journal, OR - Oct 26, 2008
30 At all the scenes of children found living among drugs, Jessica Peterson is the first responder for state child welfare in Marion County. ...
Federal judge approves Michigan foster-care deal
MLive.com, MI - Oct 24, 2008
A former child-welfare official in Illinois reviewed the deaths of five foster children and found the lack of case workers put kids at risk. ...
Tribes gear up for child welfare provisions
Indian Country Today, NY - Oct 24, 2008
David Simmons, director of government affairs for the National Indian Child Welfare Association, noted that the law contains a revenue offset, ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (10/17/2008 - 10/24/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Judge orders state to review foster care payments
Bakersfield Now, CA – Oct 23, 2008
US District Judge William Alsup ordered the changes Tuesday, saying the state's current payments are violating the Child Welfare Act. He noted payments have ...
They gave 11 unwanted children a ‘forever family’
MSNBC - Oct 23, 2008
But child welfare officials recently called and asked if the O’Briens would be willing to take in either a three-child or four-child sibling group. ...
Officials look to educate community about Safe Haven Law
Business Gazette, MD - Oct 22, 2008
... gone to a police station, fire station, hospital, and just left the baby," said Agnes Leshner, director of child welfare services in Montgomery County . ...
Children's Network may sack flu shots for foster kids
The News-Press, FL - Oct 21, 2008
... with the Department of Children and Families to care for those in the child welfare system, had hoped to host clinics to vaccinate them in swoops. ...
New Child Protection Court Serves Families
KFDX , TX - Oct 21, 2008
Fo For years, local judges say they've struggled to meet the demands of balancing child welfare cases in with the rest of the cases on their dockets. ...
Cuyahoga County: People pretending to be county employees in ...
WKYC-TV , OH - Oct 21, 2008
... false rental lease agreement to landlords to rent their space for young people who are "aging" out of the child welfare system, the press release said. ...
Overhaul of Conn. child welfare agency suggested
Hartford Courant, United States - Oct 20, 2008
Connecticut's child welfare agency came under fire Monday from two critics who claim years of reorganizational plans haven't worked and children are not ...
Longtime Social Worker Is an Agent of Change
The Ledger, FL - Oct 19, 2008
"I feel I've been blessed to be able to make a small difference for kids and families and for being able to make a big change in the child welfare system," ...
Child welfare advocate works to improve foster care system
Wyoming Tribune, WY - Oct 19, 2008
Today the 22-year-old promotes improved child welfare and encourages people to volunteer for organizations like Laramie County 's Court-Appointed Special ...
Human services director's goal: Eliminate minority imbalance
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Oct 19, 2008
Asked whether he believes the child welfare system and juvenile justice system are completely devoid of racial bias or prejudice today, he said, ...
Mother Convicted of Manslaughter in Girl's Death
New York Times , United States - Oct 17, 2008
... and prompted reforms of the city’s child welfare system, was convicted on Friday afternoon of first-degree manslaughter in her daughter’s 2006 death. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (10/10/2008 - 10/17/2008)
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Texas tosses out 29 more FLDS child-welfare cases
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Oct 16, 2008
By Brooke Adams Posted: 9:29 PM- For the second day in a row, Texas officials dismissed a large number of children from its massive child welfare ...
Oklahoma is No. 2 for kids in state care
NewsOK.com, OK - Oct 15, 2008
"There are child-welfare workers who actually qualify for food stamps in this agency,” she said. Hornby Zeller Associates, the auditing firm, ...
Stressed-out mother from Detroit area abandoned boy in Nebraska ...
Detroit Free Press, United States - Oct 15, 2008
Meanwhile, the abuse of Nebraska 's law has legislators there rethinking it, and prompted Michigan child welfare officials to warn parents not to rush ...
Audit faults computer monitoring of foster kids
Baltimore Sun, United States - Oct 15, 2008
... without a credible information technology system," said Ameejill Whitlock, child welfare director for Baltimore-based Advocates for Children and Youth. ...
Jury Asked to Decide if Girl Died Because of Her Mother’s Indifference
New York Times , United States - Oct 14, 2008
Nixzmary’s death gripped the city for weeks and spurred an overhaul of the city’s child welfare system. The jurors’ main task is to determine whether Ms. ...
New Computer Program Aims To Make Bay Area Children Safer
Tampa Tribune, FL - Oct 14, 2008
Ronda Storms and Rainey heard about it and suggested something could be created for the child welfare system, which has grappled for years with caseworkers ...
More staff needed to protect children from abuse, county social ...
Wisconsin State Journal, WI - Oct 13, 2008
The agency also falls short in supervision, with one supervisor for every 7.8 social workers, in contrast with 1-to-5 standard set by the Child Welfare ...
Author shares real life foster care experiences
Evening Observer, NY - Oct 12, 2008
"We really wanted to impact across the board, all of the child welfare workers in Western New York and to make them understand the real impact each and ...
Social services may use pay-to-stay plan to curb turnover
Durham News, NC - Oct 10, 2008
... losing 60 percent of the workers in two of its divisions -- one that handles child welfare issues, such as foster care, and the other, which handles ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (10/3/2008 - 10/10/2008)
Child Welfare News:
State to revamp children's mental health services
North Platte Telegraph, NE - Oct 10, 2008
Services for children came primarily from Medicaid and Child Welfare. We need the linkages at the state level to be stronger."
Ex-foster kids getting help to vote
Detroit Free Press, United States - Oct 10, 2008
"We want everyone who has been in the child welfare system to become involved in the election process," Johnson said. "We want to give them a space to talk ...
Child Welfare Lawsuit Getting an Appeal
KLAS-TV , NV - Oct 9, 2008
The Clark County child welfare system will have to defend itself in a federal appeals court. Thursday morning, the Ninth Circuit agreed to hear arguments in ...
DHS to Change Foster Parent Requirements
KATV , AR - Oct 9, 2008
... family foster homes and will ask the Child Welfare Licensing Agency Review Board to amend its minimum licensing standards to reflect the new practice. ...
DC considers checks on adoptive parents
Annapolis Capital, MD - Oct 9, 2008
... are being cared for following the deaths of two girls who were one-time DC foster children, the head of the city's child welfare agency said yesterday. ...
Law’s Effect: An Iowa Girl Is Abandoned in Nebraska
New York Times , United States - Oct 8, 2008
They said she could be taken under the custody of Nebraska ’s child welfare department, which holds her now, and end up in foster care. ...
Court-appointed monitor to oversee Michigan's foster care system
DetNews.com, MI - Oct 7, 2008
"This settlement is truly a landmark victory for the thousands of children dependent on Michigan 's child welfare system," Marcia Robinson Lowry, ...
Report: Most Child Death's Preventable
Fox5 KVVU, NV - Oct 7, 2008
The report also stated that additional research needs to be conducted in the areas of risk factors for infant deaths, racial disparities, child welfare and ...
Child Welfare Panel Addresses Foster Care Concerns
KCPW, UT - Oct 7, 2008
... foster care payment system with a cost reimbursement system were discussed yesterday during a meeting of the Child Welfare Legislative Oversight panel. ...
Indian Country Today, NY - Oct 3, 2008
22, creates new, sovereignty-based avenues for tribal governments to access the nation’s largest child welfare program, the Title IV-E Foster Care and ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (9/26/2008 - 10/3/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Beebe Revisits Support of Foster Care Plan
MyFox Memphis, TN – Oct 3, 2008
The Child Welfare Licensing Agency Review Board, which sets minimum licensing standards for placement agencies, also has a requirement that "in a two-parent ...
Older Children Abandoned Under Law for Babies
BlueRidgeNow.com, NC - Oct 3, 2008
Mark Courtney, an expert on child welfare at the University of Washington , said that what happened in Nebraska “would happen in any state. ...
Extended families Hard times complicate recruiting of foster parents
Worcester Telegram, MA - Oct 3, 2008
A veteran of 15 years in child welfare, Penny Esser has never weathered a tougher climate for the work to which she’s so devoted — recruiting foster parents ...
Vouchers benefit foster children
Washington Times, DC - Oct 1, 2008
Child-welfare professionals recognize that, even when they extricate children from deeply troubled home situations and place them in protective, ...
Sheldon named head of Florida child welfare agency
Florida Times-Union, FL - Sep 30, 2008
Child welfare Secretary George Sheldon can take the interim out of his title. Gov. Charlie Crist announced Tuesday that Sheldon will lead the Department of ...
Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Legislation to Improve California ...
Imperial Valley News, CA - Sep 29, 2008
... to the alternative foster care programs for youth in need of additional support, and provides for the continuation of federal child welfare funding. ...
Custody hearings begin for girls removed from religious compound
KTBS , LA - Sep 26, 2008
State child welfare workers said they have working to verify the identities of each girls and their parents. AP contributed to this report.
Governor seeks safe homes, education, health care for children
Wisconsin Dells Events, WI - Sep 26, 2008
Some of the topics covered were Indian child welfare issues, the disproportion number of children of color in the state's child welfare system and effective ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (9/19/2008 - 9/26/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Foster care settlement will improve system, experts say
MLive.com, MI - Sep 26, 2008
Ahmed, the department director, said, "There have been tremendous changes in the child welfare system over the past 10 months. All steps are being taken in ...
Ohio DJFS To Cut Jobs
Wheeling News Register, WV - Sep 25, 2008
CLAIRSVILLE - Money for adoption, Medicaid and child welfare programs is on the chopping block as the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services seeks to ...
Custody hearings to be held for girls removed from church compound
KTBS, LA - Sep 25, 2008
Hearings will be held Friday and Monday on whether Arkansas child-welfare officials will retain temporary custody of six girls taken from the Tony Alamo ...
Former foster children helping Fla. learn lessons
Bradenton Herald, United States - Sep 25, 2008
I wanted nothing to do with the child welfare system. Once I got out of it, I'm out of it.' But we're finding a little different attitude now, which is good ...
CFK PolicyWatch: What Adults Who Care About Kids are Cheering—and ...
Connect For Kids, DC - Sep 24, 2008
Also worth cheering: On September 22, Congress passed the most significant reform to the national child welfare and foster care system in more than a decade ...
CPS program brings together birth and foster parents
Prescott Daily Courier, AZ - Sep 22, 2008
CPS District III Program Manager Gary Arnold said Family to Family lets parents, foster parents and other child welfare representatives get involved ...
Western Michigan University helps ex-foster kids with college
Detroit Free Press, United States - Sep 22, 2008
But more important for a group of young men and women who have spent much of their lives herded by an impersonal child welfare system, there is a ready-made ...
Transitional Home Will Help Those Leaving Foster Care
MyMotherLode.com, CA - Sep 20, 2008
Child Welfare Services Program Manager Linda Downey says this type of home is needed, due to some unfortunate statistics. “In Tuolumne County , approximately ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (9/12/2008 - 9/19/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Nixzmary Brown's last words open mother's murder trial
New York Daily News, NY – Sep 19, 2008
Her stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, was found guilty last year of manslaughter in a case that led to massive reform at the city's child-welfare agency. ...
Would-be Parents Frustrated by DC's Adoption System
WJLA , DC – Sep 18, 2008
Child welfare advocates demanded the court intervene, saying the system is broken. They point to the statistics, indicating the number of adoptions in the ...
DHS Loses Files; Citizen Finds Them
KSBI 52, OK - Sep 18, 2008
"The materials that were in her personal files were a lot of training materials that we use in our child welfare academy. We use real documents with ...
BREAKING NEWS: CPS reports mother violated court restrictions
San Angelo Standard-Times, TX - Sep 18, 2008
By Paul A. Anthony (Contact) The polygamous-sect matriarch whose husband led the YFZ Ranch in Schleicher County has been uncooperative with child-welfare ...
Foster care in Erie making strides
GoErie.com, PA - Sep 17, 2008
Benso also recommended that child-welfare agencies address underlying problems that cause children to end up in foster care. Substance abuse is a major ...
CWLA Hails House Passage of Historic Child Welfare Bill
MarketWatch - Sep 17, 2008
ARLINGTON , Va. , Sept 17, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Today the House of Representatives passed historic child welfare reform legislation ...
Panel to focus on state's foster care system
Arkansas News, AR - Sep 15, 2008
John Zalenski, an expert on child welfare, also was hired as an assistant division director. Rep. Donna Hutchinson, R-Bella Vista, said last week she hopes ...
Work increases for foster agency
The Olympian, WA - Sep 15, 2008
"In terms of the support the Legislature and the governor's office has given us in improving child welfare, they really have provided the resources," she ...
Expanded programs benefit kids in foster care
Times-Standard, CA - Sep 14, 2008
Ten more mental health case managers and three clinicians are being hired to work with Child Welfare Services social workers and public health nurses. ...
Southern Maryland Online, MD - Sep 12, 2008
Martin O'Malley during a meeting earlier this month about its Maryland Can Do Better for Children campaign, which promotes solutions for child welfare, ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (9/5/2008 - 9/12/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Crist: Sheldon has earned top child welfare job
MiamiHerald.com, FL – Sep 11, 2008
AP Gov. Charlie Crist said George Sheldon, interim secretary at the Department of Children and Families, is in line to take the job permanently. ...
Report finds too many Pa. children remain too long in foster care
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Sep 10, 2008
Joan Benso, president and chief executive officer of the partnership, said the statewide findings indicate that child welfare agencies must work harder to ...
US Sen. Grassley: Wins committee passage of bill to help foster ...
IowaPolitics.com (press release), IA - Sep 10, 2008
... the Kids Are Waiting: Fix Foster Care Now campaign sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Child Welfare League of America, the National Foster Care ...
Buckner named acting commissioner of state DHR
Daily Home Online, AL - Sep 9, 2008
In addition to her long tenure in Talladega County , at various times Buckner has also served as interim director of Calhoun County DHR and child welfare ...
For foster teens, self-sufficiency is tough lesson
Allentown Morning Call, PA - Sep 8, 2008
The youths, who are referred to the program by child welfare caseworkers, live in homes that are subsidized or rented by Valley Youth House, an agency that ...
CPS revises FLDS numbers — again
Deseret News, UT - Sep 5, 2008
The child welfare investigation and a criminal probe into abuse allegations surrounding the FLDS Church are ongoing. During a court hearing here on Thursday ...
Survey of WA foster care teens finds most happy
Seattle Times, United States - Sep 5, 2008
The survey also showed the disproportion of minority children in the child welfare system. Seven percent of the teens surveyed identified themselves as ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (8/29/2008 - 9/5/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Arbitrator: DC Social Workers Should Be Rehired
NBC 4.com, DC - Sep 5, 2008
WASHINGTON -- An arbitrator has ruled that three DC child welfare workers were improperly fired for failing to help four young girls found dead in a ...
Grant to help social work program address needs of aging population
Bethel College News, KS - Sep 5, 2008
“For example, in the field of child welfare, social workers frequently are working with the extended support systems including grandparents who step in to ...
Lawsuit will change state's child welfare system
ABC12.com, MI - Sep 4, 2008
By Josh DeVine LANSING (WJRT) -- (09/03/08)--A single class-action lawsuit will soon spark changes in the state's child welfare system. ...
Dangers of social work gain attention
Huntington Herald Dispatch, WV - Sep 3, 2008
A study by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees found that 70 percent of front-line child welfare workers had been victims of ...
Children’s deaths stir agency shifts
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - Aug 31, 2008
Selig said a few new assistant division directors have been hired, including national child-welfare expert John Zalenski. Also, the Department of Human ...
Investigation of Foster Deaths Ongoing
KATV , AR - Aug 29, 2008
The agency also has created a team of experts from outside its staff to provide suggestions on how it can improve child-welfare operations, and has hired ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (8/22/2008 - 8/29/2008)
Child Welfare News:
DCFS takes hit, parks and historic sites to close under ...
Chicago Tribune, United States - Aug 28, 2008
But child welfare experts said that already burdened caseworkers will be forced to pick up some of the slack and children might not get the services they ...
Child welfare agency must get court orders before removing ...
KBMT ABC 12, TX - Aug 28, 2008
AUSTIN (AP) - A federal appeals court ruling will force the state's child welfare agency to obtain court orders or parental consent prior to removing ...
Public responds to state report on racial disparity in youth services
News Sentinel, IN - Aug 28, 2008
Black youth are over-represented or under-represented in four key areas: juvenile justice, child welfare, education and mental health. ...
Perdue plans to realign system
Augusta Chronicle, GA - Aug 26, 2008
DHR oversees a vast array of services, from child welfare to anti-smoking campaigns. The Department of Community Health would assume DHR 's public health and ...
State agency honored for use of technology
2TheAdvocate, LA - Aug 26, 2008
DSS ’s Office of Community Services, which oversees the state’s foster care and adoption program, is the first child welfare system in the nation to use GIS ...
Danieal Kelly lawsuit against DHS is filed
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Aug 26, 2008
The suit, filed in US District Court in Philadelphia, further alleges that the city's child-welfare system "is in a crisis, and as a result, ...
Guardian watches over every foster child in state
Chicago Tribune, United States - Aug 26, 2008
Child welfare systems across the nation allocate such important authority to a judge or committee, experts say. But in Illinois , since 1996, ...
Restraining of mentally ill foster kids questioned
MiamiHerald.com, FL - Aug 25, 2008
''It was very disturbing,'' said Frusciante, who oversees child welfare cases in Broward. He said he wasn't disturbed enough to outright ban the practice at ...
DHR collects school supplies for children; still needs school uniforms
The Birmingham News - al.com, AL - Aug 25, 2008
... but county foster children and children of low-income families still need school uniforms, said Kim Mashego, assistant director of child welfare. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (8/15/2008 - 8/22/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Video helps tribal leaders educate about sex abuse
Billings Gazette, USA - Aug 22, 2008
It was shown Friday during the Bureau of Indian Affairs Second National Conference on Child Protection and Child Welfare in Indian Country at the Holiday ...
Judge: State hasn’t found homes for enough foster kids
Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA - Aug 21, 2008
Sonny Perdue and other defendants in a child welfare case 20 days to show why they should not be held in contempt and punished for failing to live up to a ...
Camp fosters unity
SunJournal.com, ME - Aug 21, 2008
Swift is child welfare adoption program manager for the Department of Health and Human Services in Augusta . The children participate in typical camp ...
Judge Orders Girl in Sect to Foster Care
New York Times, United States - Aug 19, 2008
Her 11-year-old brother, whom Texas child welfare authorities also wanted put in foster care, will be allowed to stay with his mother but will have to ...
Commission studying racial disparities in youth services ...
Evening News and Tribune, IN - Aug 19, 2008
... representation and treatment of children of minority races or ethnicities in juvenile justice, child welfare, education and mental-health services. ...
New Report Reveals Surprising Facts About Adoption
HealthNews, CA - Aug 18, 2008
Finally, two pieces of legislation; The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, legislation requiring reasonable efforts be made to preserve and ...
Blue-ribbon panel urges reform of California foster care system
Ventura County Star, CA - Aug 16, 2008
The Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care was composed of 42 child welfare experts, legislators, court officials and foster youths. ...
Fla. Gov. Crist names interim child welfare secretary
Bradenton Herald, United States - Aug 15, 2008
AP The Department of Children and Families' assistant secretary for operations prepared to take over the agency on Friday as Bob Butterworth served his last ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (8/08/2008 - 8/15/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Butterworth steps down; Crist names interim child welfare secretary
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL – Aug 15, 2008
AP and Tribune reports TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Charlie Crist said good-bye to Bob Butterworth today -- and named George Sheldon "interim secretary" of the ...
SF: STATE COMMISSION TO RECOMMEND FOSTER CARE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS
CBS 5, CA - Aug 14, 2008
Others are for changes in laws or better collaboration between courts and child welfare agencies. The commission is expected to ask the Judicial Council on ...
Number of children in foster care plunges to 15-year low
Molokai Times, HI - Aug 14, 2008
By Amy Tsark There are two remarkable trends occurring in Hawaii ’s child welfare system. Namely, the number of keiki in foster care has dropped dramatically ...
Children Left Alone at Home, Worriedly
New York Times , United States - Aug 14, 2008
Child-welfare experts say that many low-income parents have few choices but to leave children unattended while working. But for middle-class and wealthy New ...
Ward Home teaches teens skills they need to graduate
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Aug 13, 2008
The Child Welfare League of America estimates that 20000 children turn 18 each year with no viable family support system. In Allegheny County , as many as ...
Official: More cases likely against Texas sect
The Associated Press - Aug 12, 2008
Child-welfare officials continue to investigate and have asked that eight of the children be returned to foster care. In July, a Schleicher County grand ...
Poor economy is affecting foster homes
Press-Enterprise, CA - Aug 11, 2008
By JANET ZIMMERMAN Soaring gas and food prices have foster parents scrambling to make ends meet, and child welfare advocates warn that the faltering economy ...
Keeping kids with family
Columbus Dispatch, OH - Aug 11, 2008
The pendulum keeps swinging on the highest-stakes question in child welfare: Are children better off when they stay with their families, or when they leave? ...
The girl in the window
Columbus Dispatch, OH - Aug 10, 2008
"In my entire career with the child-welfare system, I don't ever remember a child like Danielle," said Luanne Panacek, executive director of the Children's ...
Foster-care system still struggling
Seattle Times, United States - Aug 10, 2008
Child-welfare experts say the agency's struggles have to do with headstrong officials and overwhelmed staff; leaders say the agency is on track and steadily ...
Judge: Nev. Foster Child Agency Must Share Records
KOLO , NV - Aug 8, 2008
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A federal judge is ordering Las Vegas-based child welfare authorities to turn over the results of investigations of abuse against foster ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (8/01/2008 - 8/08/2008)
Child Welfare News:
FLDS custody hearings moved up a month
Deseret News, UT – Aug 8, 2008
Hundreds of children from the FLDS Church's YFZ Ranch were removed in an April raid when child welfare workers and law enforcement responded to the ...
State Senator Wants Juvenile Prison Shut Down
The Morning News, AR - Aug 8, 2008
She called the juvenile prison in southwest Pulaski County a "grim" place while discussing child welfare issues during a meeting of the Arkansas Kids Count ...
Two DHS workers in child death case are fired
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Aug 8, 2008
By John Sullivan Two child-welfare workers criminally charged in the starvation death of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly were fired yesterday after an internal ...
Department of Human Services: New Strategies in Child Welfare ...
Hawaii Reporter, HI - Aug 7, 2008
Implemented in 2005, this Web-based system assists child welfare social workers in determining the least intrusive and most effective response that ensures ...
DHS wants curtailed discovery process
Edmond Sun, OK - Aug 7, 2008
... of Human Services Wednesday to curtail the pretrial discovery process in a lawsuit that seeks top-to-bottom reform of the state's child welfare system. ...
National study finds child abuse under-reported
Medill Reports, IL - Aug 7, 2008
Vice president of public policy and communication at the Virginia-based Child Welfare League of America, Linda Spears, finds it interesting that clinicians ...
Life After Foster Care
In These Times, IL - Aug 6, 2008
“We’re really badly in need of foster homes,” says Marissa Allen, vice president of child welfare services at OCH. “But it’s difficult because nobody wants ...
Texas wants 8 kids from sect back in state care
The Associated Press - Aug 6, 2008
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas child welfare authorities asked a judge on Tuesday to place eight children from a Texas polygamist sect's ranch back into foster ...
Camp reunites foster siblings
Washington Times, DC - Aug 5, 2008
... according to Casey Family Programs, a Seattle-based national foundation that promotes improvements in child welfare practices and policies. ...
Social worker slaying has W.Va. pondering safety
Kentucky.com, KY - Aug 5, 2008
... advocates struggling to find ways to better protect those who work daily on potentially volatile issues of child welfare and family crisis management. ...
Giving Foster Teens a Place to Call Home
Gotham Gazette, NY - Aug 3, 2008
(This article is adapted from Child Welfare Watch Vol. 16, "Home Away From Home: Foster Parents for a New Generation." Reporting by Ann Farmer, ...
Homeless shelter focuses on youths
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Aug 3, 2008
“There is a huge child welfare system that is supposed to be looking out for the welfare of children.” Roman’s agency estimates that more than 1 million ...
Human services making changes in wake of childrens' deaths
Denver Post, CO - Aug 3, 2008
The new Child Welfare Action Committee held its first meeting Thursday. • Counties have begun receiving training on how to access a new data platform. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (7/25/2008 - 8/01/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Ex-Official Pleads Guilty in Fraud at Welfare Agency
New York Times, United States - Aug 1, 2008
By BENJAMIN WEISER A former official of New York City’s child welfare agency pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges including embezzlement, fraud and money ...
Policy could push kids out of CHIP
Deseret News, UT - Aug 1, 2008
... and more precarious private market," said Karen Crompton, executive director of the child welfare research and advocacy group Voices for Utah Children. ...
FLDS classes to focus on 'core strengths'
Deseret News, UT - Jul 30, 2008
Once on the ranch, child welfare authorities and law enforcement said they witnessed what they believed to be other signs of abuse, leading a judge to order ...
Stark proposes law helping immigrant foster kids get green cards
Oakland Tribune, CA - Jul 30, 2008
Xavier Becerra, D-Los Angeles, would not change federal immigration law, but would force states and local child welfare agencies to pay more attention to an ...
Two State Child Welfare Officials Resign
Youth Today, DC - Jul 30, 2008
by Nancy Lewis The top child welfare officials in Florida and Alabama, both of whom are credited with improving foster care and other children's services in ...
Encouraging Employment Of Foster Youth
Hudson Valley Press, NY - Jul 30, 2008
These young adults leave the child welfare system with few resources for self-sufficiency. Though many of these youth have characteristics that make them ...
Study finds state child abuse hotline has improved
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - Jul 30, 2008
by Susan K. Livio/The Star-Ledger A study released today by the federal court monitor overseeing reform of the state child welfare system found many of the ...
Program gives skills to foster children
The Register-Guard, OR - Jul 30, 2008
According to the state Department of Human Services’ Child Welfare Program, there was an average of 6020 children in foster care on any given day in May. ...
Gov. Bill Ritter appoints new Child Welfare Action Committee
Greeley Tribune, Colorado - Jul 29, 2008
Bill Ritter announced the creation of a Child Welfare Action Committee today. The committee, composed of 23 Coloradans, is designed to recommend ...
State's DHR commissioner resigning
Montgomery Advertiser, AL - Jul 29, 2008
Walley, according to the release, said officials with Casey Family Programs were impressed enough with Alabama’s child welfare work and community ...
Former Police Officers Aid Child Welfare Caseworkers
New York Times , United States - Jul 28, 2008
And they serve as a bridge to active law enforcement when child welfare and crime overlap. In addition to having special access to databases like domestic ...
Program encourages becoming foster parents for special-needs kids
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Jul 27, 2008
... a profound impact on children who are in need of safe and loving homes," said Denise Revels Robinson, director of the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare. ...
Foster child hearings rules change
Ventura County Star, CA - Jul 26, 2008
If a child is absent from a hearing where decisions are being made about the child's welfare, Cody requires social workers to report the reason, ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (7/18/2008 - 7/25/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Washington, DC, Reinstitutes Home-Schooling Rules
RedOrbit, TX – Jul 25, 2008
"We would like to see the superintendent enforce regulations the same way all other child welfare regulations are enforced -- only with probable cause," Mr. ...
Foster Transplant Case Sparks DCF Policy Revamp
RedOrbit , TX – Jul 24, 2008
He had caseworkers and doctors and a high-ranking administrator from Florida 's child welfare agency all working on his behalf. Days after Jackson Memorial ...
Hearing set for child welfare settlement
Detroit Free Press, United States - Jul 24, 2008
A federal judge has scheduled a hearing for preliminary approval of a court settlement that would mean sweeping changes in Michigan's child welfare system. ...
Audit: CPS lax in tracking, responding to complaints
Arizona Republic, AZ - Jul 22, 2008
The review by the Office of the Auditor General found that the child-welfare agency provides easy access for members of the public to file complaints and ...
Polygamist Is Indicted in Assault of a Child
New York Times, United States - Jul 22, 2008
The indictments came seven weeks after the Texas Supreme Court ordered child welfare officials to return to their parents 460 children removed from the ...
Chronic child neglect summit looks at causes of and solutions to ...
NRToday.com, OR - Jul 22, 2008
As a result of a chronic child neglect summit held Monday, the child welfare office and ADAPT, a drug and alcohol treatment program, are seeking former ...
Reports of domestic violence rise
Tahlequah Daily Press, OK - Jul 22, 2008
... but it is still grossly underreported,” said Sandie Edgmon, program member for investigation with Cherokee Nation Indian Child Welfare. ...
Problems persist for child welfare: Review finds Texas caseworker ...
TMCnet - Jul 20, 2008
The latest Child and Family Services Review also faulted Texas for having too many children in long-term foster care and placing children on waiting lists ...
Bloomberg says blame ACS mess on me
New York Daily News, NY - Jul 19, 2008
BY KATHLEEN LUCADAMO Mayor Bloomberg took the blame Friday for three child welfare workers accused of embezzling millions in city funds meant for needy ...
Child Welfare Agency On "Emergency Basis"
WJZ, MD - Jul 18, 2008
The Child and Family Services Agency will "act on an emergency basis" by getting social workers from other District offices and hiring more staff, ...
Child abuse reporting rules called unclear
The Patriot-News - PennLive.com, PA - Jul 17, 2008
The mandatory reporting laws can save lives, Levi said, but there can be danger in being too quick to report: Child welfare agencies could be overwhelmed ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (7/11/2008 - 7/18/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Public Speaks Out On Foster Care System
Evening Bulletin, PA – Jul 18, 2008
The 2007 Child Welfare Review Panel Report disclosed that several children had died after DHS failed to them from their homes despite having been alerted to ...
Child Welfare Agency On 'Emergency Basis'
NBC 4.com, DC – Jul 18, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The Child and Family Services Agency will "act on an emergency basis" by getting social workers from other District offices and hiring more ...
Judge approves DCF improvement plan
Newsday , NY – Jul 17, 2008
The state's child welfare agency and a national advocacy group have reached an agreement on a new proposal to improve programs for abused and neglected ...
DC Child and Family Services Director Resigns
Washington Post, United States - Jul 16, 2008
... personally thank her for her dedication to public service and for working to turn our troubled child welfare agency around," Fenty said in a statement. ...
4 Are Charged With Child Welfare Fraud
New York Times, United States - Jul 16, 2008
By Benjamin Weiser The United States attorney’s office in Manhattan is announcing today the arrests of two officials of the Administration for Children’s ...
James Bell Associates Awarded Key OFA Contract to Provide ...
PR Web (press release), WA - Jul 16, 2008
... assistance (TA) for its federally mandated Healthy Marriage, Promoting Responsible Fatherhood, and Tribal/TANF Child Welfare Grantees programs. ...
Judge Hints at Harsh Sentence in Adoption Fraud Case
New York Times, United States - Jul 15, 2008
When she pleaded guilty in May to the fraud scheme in New York, she admitted that she lied to child welfare officials about the number of children she ...
Swamped By Calls, DCF Wants Better Screening
Tampa Tribune, FL - Jul 13, 2008
... by DCF Secretary Bob Butterworth, who said the change is necessary to keep from overwhelming child welfare workers already dealing with heavy caseloads. ...
Oregon improves oversight of foster children
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Jul 11, 2008
The family's future depends on what Santilli-Day, a state child welfare caseworker, sees on her visits. Face-to-face time with children and their parents is ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (6/27/2008 - 7/11/2008)
Child Welfare News:
County frets over ‘foster freeze’
Signal, CA – Jul 11, 2008
Statewide, child welfare services and foster care programs would see a $320 million reduction. The budget would cut the payment rate for foster care ...
More Nebraska children escaping welfare system
Omaha World-Herald (subscription), NE - Jul 10, 2008
BY MARTHA STODDARD LINCOLN — More Nebraska children left the state's child welfare system than entered it during the two years since Gov. ...
FLDS member's restraining order request granted
The Associated Press - Jul 9, 2008
He denied the allegations Wednesday and said the order is retaliation for his role in a Texas child welfare case that involved a daughter of jailed FLDS ...
Child Protective Services Need Police Training
KTRE , TX - Jul 9, 2008
Mike Claude investigates less known child welfare cases for the Nacogdches County Sheriff's Department. He notes that there's always been a good working ...
Woodard takes reins at DSS
Warren Record, NC - Jul 9, 2008
Woodard began working with Wake County Human Services as a child welfare social worker and, later, a family support/childcare subsidy manager. ...
Fired DC Social Worker's Caseload Had Ballooned
Washington Post, United States - Jul 8, 2008
... had a workload that jumped from four cases to 50 as reports of neglect and abuse flowed into the child welfare system after the death of four sisters. ...
Half of Children in Welfare System Have History of Special Health ...
Newswise (press release) - Jul 7, 2008
Newswise — Half of the children in the nation's child welfare system have a history of special health care needs, according to a new study by researchers at ...
Video conference pilot program set for Children's Court
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Jul 7, 2008
The use of videoconferencing in child protection and custody matters will move Allegheny County and its child welfare system to the forefront of best ...
Police may escort child welfare workers on cases
Today's MGT, GA - Jul 6, 2008
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard is proposing a plan that would send police escorts out with child welfare workers responding to reports of ...
Michigan settles suit, agrees to reform foster care
Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com, MI - Jul 4, 2008
Jennifer Granholm said her administration will embrace the reforms, which she said will continue child welfare improvements made in recent years. ...
Cuyahoga County gets extra time before joining Statewide Automated ...
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - Jul 4, 2008
With county child welfare officials in open rebellion, state bureaucrats relented, pushing back the date for implementing the Statewide Automated Child ...
DCFS assigns assessment team to work with Youth Campus
Park Ridge Herald Advocate, IL - Jul 3, 2008
... currently operates as a residential treatment center for girls between the ages of 12 and 18 who are wards of DCFS, the state's child welfare agency. ...
DHS Faces Questions In Aftermath Of Foster Care Deaths
KOCO , OK - Jul 1, 2008
"(We have) 11500 children, 1000 people doing the work of the entire child welfare system in the state. You do the math," Johnson said. ...
State's child welfare agency gets temporary funding reprieve
WBIR-TV , TN - Jul 1, 2008
... well as several departments within the state government. Meantime, Tennessee is committed to finding a longterm solution to public child welfare financing."
DCFS Nurses Help Advise Child Welfare
Nurse.com, VA - Jun 30, 2008
If DCFS is contacted regarding the suspicion of abuse or neglect of a child, a child welfare specialist nurse teams up with a case worker to begin the ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (6/20/2008 - 6/27/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Waits Plague Transfers of Children to Relatives’ Care
New York Times, United States – Jun 27, 2008
By ERIK ECKHOLM HYATTSVILLE, Md. — When child welfare officials in Washington removed five young children from their parents’ home in May, relatives in this ...
No Indictments From Texas Sect Grand Jury Inquiry
CBS 42, TX - Jun 26, 2008
Grand jury proceedings are supposed to be secret, but court filings in the related child welfare case disclosed the start of the grand jury's work and the ...
Disparities found in child welfare
Seattle Times, United States - Jun 26, 2008
Whether children of color are overrepresented in the child-welfare system is a topic that's long been discussed in certain circles. ...
Interim leader of child welfare is chosen
Statesman Journal, OR - Jun 25, 2008
Johnston took on the job, which put him squarely in the middle of child-welfare controversies, after the retirement of Ramona Foley in 2007. ...
Performance audit of DHS slated for July
Tulsa World, OK - Jun 24, 2008
The lawsuit seeks a complete overhaul of the state's child welfare system and alleges DHS has not provided for the basic safety of foster children in ways ...
Senate panel approves new chief for children 's services
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - Jun 23, 2008
The commissioner oversees the child welfare system, the Division of Youth and Family Services, as well as the agency that manages mental health care and ...
Dying man’s gift helps foster youth pursue education
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Jun 21, 2008
Thanks to a newly created college scholarship fund that is tailored to youth who age out of Milwaukee County 's foster child welfare system, Ford's education ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (6/13/2008 - 6/20/2008)
Child Welfare News:
After a Little Boy’s Death, Grief and Regret at Missed Clues
New York Times, United States - Jun 19, 2008
The sad, abbreviated life of Kyle Smith was, in fact, filled with a number of disconnects and what-if’s that neighbors, relatives, child-welfare advocates ...
DCF probes internal leaks on Internet blogs
MiamiHerald.com, FL - Jun 18, 2008
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER Florida child welfare administrators have had little tolerance for investigators and caseworkers who air the agency's dirty laundry ...
CPS actions in polygamist sect puzzle some child welfare experts
Dallas Morning News, TX - Jun 17, 2008
By ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN – Some lawyers and child welfare experts say they're puzzled that the Texas child protection system ...
Congress Examines the Urban-Rural Link in Reforming Child Welfare
Business Wire (press release), CA - Jun 17, 2008
Through a patchwork of agencies and approaches, the need for a broad federal policy to child welfare issues is clear. This will be the focus for the “Urban ...
A World Away, New Rules Put an Adoption on Hold
New York Times, United States - Jun 17, 2008
“My entire working career in child welfare really has revolved around immigrant issues and immigrants having to deal with bureaucracies and families getting ...
Recent foster child death shakes up Santa Barbara County child ...
KSBY , CA - Jun 16, 2008
The recent death of a foster child has some people questioning the Santa Barbara County child welfare system. The county said the tragedy does not reflect ...
Trans-racial adoption isn’t helping Black children
FinalCall.com, IL - Jun 15, 2008
New York City experiences problems with recruitment, but not trans-racial adoptions because the majority of adopted children come from the child welfare ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (6/6/2008 - 6/13/2008)
Child Abuse & Neglect News:
Coalition aims to improve kids' care
Green Bay Press Gazette, WI - Jun 13, 2008
Long-term goals include reducing child abuse and neglect, reducing the teen pregnancy rate in the Green Bay area and improving school readiness, ...
‘The Link’ Between Pet Abuse and Human Violence
Dog Channel, CA - Jun 12, 2008
A survey of pet-owning families with substantiated child abuse and neglect found that animals were abused in 88 percent of homes where child physical abuse ...
Chicago, Illinois teaming up on early-education push for state wards
Chicago Tribune, United States - Jun 11, 2008
DCFS said it would train Head Start staff on how to prevent child abuse and neglect. "We protect children when we support families," Erwin McEwen, ...
Missouri reviews child-care regulations
Lake Expo, MO - Jun 11, 2008
The state now requires that applicants for child-care jobs be screened for past criminal or child-abuse and -neglect offenses in Missouri only. ...
Prosecutor to seek funds for at-risk parents
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Jun 10, 2008
... Attorney Laura Ditka will testify before a congressional committee in Washington , DC , today, advocating for funding to prevent child abuse and neglect. ...
Concerns arise over SRS files' validity
Kansas.com, KS - Jun 7, 2008
The social workers lay out results of their child abuse and neglect investigations. Prosecutors then cite the documents in petitions recommending that ...
Number of South Texas children in foster care growing
Brownsville Herald, TX United States - Jun 7, 2008
... say they can't explain the exact reason for the bump, but they believe it may be due to increased public awareness about child abuse and neglect. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (5/30/2008 - 6/6/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Improved Foster Care Reduces Risk Of Adult Mental And Physical ...
Science Daily (press release) – Jun 6, 2008
"These children enter the child welfare system through no fault of their own because of traumatic family circumstances. We have a responsibility as a nation ...
Children's guardians get tough new warning
Boston Globe, United States - Jun 3, 2008
"The governor appointed Commissioner McClain to lead the Department of Social Services because of his experience and vision for improving child welfare ...
Nutter names new head of widely criticized Department of Human ...
Philadelphia Daily News, PA - Jun 3, 2008
Ambrose is currently a child welfare and juvenile justice administrator in the state Welfare Department. She was a DHS deputy commissioner from 2001 to 2005 ...
DC Social Workers Remove More Kids
Washington Post, United States - Jun 2, 2008
The increase is straining the overburdened foster care system and sapping the strength of a child welfare agency that is still mending after years of reform ...
DELAWARE: Children's department head resigns
Bethany Beach Wave, DE - Jun 2, 2008
... Service founder Jim Casey, Casey Family Programs is a foundation that has served children, youth, and families in the child welfare system since 1966.
National Child Welfare News Clippings (5/23/2008 - 5/30/2008)
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Texas takes DNA from sect leader
Houston Chronicle, United States – May 30, 2008
The criminal investigation into possible abuse is separate from the massive custody case in which the Texas Supreme Court ruled that child welfare workers ...
Questions linger in death of foster child
Indianapolis Star, United States - May 30, 2008
... the family is frustrated by many of the issues state officials have spent the past four years trying to fix within Indiana 's child welfare system. ...
Families Coping with Incarcerated Parents
NPR - May 29, 2008
So if a parent in prison has to rely on the public welfare system, or the child welfare system to care for their child, they have a distinct risk of losing ...
Court Rules Sect Children Should Go Home
New York Times , United States - May 29, 2008
By JOHN SULLIVAN The Texas State Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the removal of children from a polygamist religious group’s ranch by child welfare ...
Talks stall in suit against Mich. foster care system
WOOD-TV , MI - May 28, 2008
She said the department will accelerate changes already under way _ hiring more child welfare workers, licensing foster parents who are relatives of abused ...
South Carolina Takes Aim at Reducing Number of Children in Foster Care
ReadMedia (Press Release), NY - May 28, 2008
“We look forward to working with national and state experts to improve outcomes for children and youth who come to the attention of the child welfare system ...
Study Urging Adoption Changes Applauded
The Ledger, FL - May 28, 2008
But under current law, child-welfare agencies that receive federal funds are prohibited from considering any race-related issues in adoption or foster-care ...
De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized
New York Times, United States - May 27, 2008
Several child welfare organizations — including the Child Welfare League of America, the Adoption Exchange Association, the National Association of Black ...
It's a heartfelt search for parents
TheReporter.com, CA - May 23, 2008
... Web site that profile children in Solano County who are looking for families, said Linda Orrante, director of Child Welfare Services for Solano County . ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (5/9/2008 - 5/23/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Texas officials plan to ask court block ruling in sect case
The Associated Press – May 23, 2008
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Texas child welfare authorities plan Friday to appeal a stinging ruling that found they had no right to seize more than 440 ...
Tribal court eyes haircut
Alamogordo Daily News, NM – May 23, 2008
Last December, the New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled the federal Indian Child Welfare Act does not apply in custody cases when children remain with either ...
DCF Files Falsified, State Says
Tampa Tribune, FL – May 22, 2008
By HOWARD ALTMAN and MIKE WELLS TAMPA - Two former child welfare workers were arrested Thursday and accused of lying in official state records about having ...
Study finds no link between home ownership, child welfare
Radio Iowa, IA - May 21, 2008
By O.Kay Henderson A new study by a University of Iowa researcher debunks the idea that children raised in a house that their parents own do better in life ...
Foster Mother’s Pain Patch Is Believed Responsible in 6-Year-Old ...
New York Times, United States - May 21, 2008
Children are generally placed in foster care after a determination is made by the child welfare agency, and confirmed by a family court judge, ...
Abuse registry weighed
Henderson Gleaner, KY - May 20, 2008
Galbraith has called for sweeping change in the child welfare system and is seeking input for other ways the system could improve. A previous suggestion was ...
Some DCFS inquiries too slow, report says
Chicago Tribune, United States - May 20, 2008
A fraction of child welfare investigations did not conclude within the 60-day deadline required by Illinois law and others failed to begin, ...
Appeals court upholds ruling on search of children
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - May 19, 2008
In 2005, the parents of the children, step-siblings who were 8 and 9 at the time, sued Dana Gresbach, the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare worker who ...
Clock ticks as Alabama Department of Human Resources pushes to ...
al.com, AL - May 18, 2008
Tucker has argued that Alabama's child welfare system still needs the federal oversight that was established by a 1991 class-action lawsuit settlement known ...
Nevada rule protects inmates' babies
Tri Valley Herald, CA - May 16, 2008
The girl's disappearance sparked widespread searches, a review of the child welfare system in southern Nevada , and a federal lawsuit by the girl's birth ...
Study: SD child abuse laws hinder oversight
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - May 16, 2008
It goes on to say the Child Welfare Policy Manual "explicitly emphasizes that the 'state does not have discretion in whether to allow the public access to ...
Child Welfare Tightens Law on Removal
New York Times, United States - May 15, 2008
Child welfare workers had been in frequent contact with Ms. Paez since the first baby was placed in foster care because of violence in the home, ...
Study ranks Vermont first in well-being
Bennington Banner, VT - May 13, 2008
"Currently, the US ranks 20th of the 20 richest democracies in terms of child welfare," Petit said. Petit said that this is the first time his organization ...
Bill seeks to lift liability for child protective services workers
Macomb Daily, MI - May 12, 2008
"In the more than 30 years that I've followed child welfare, I've never seen a worker fired, demoted, suspended or even slapped on the wrist for taking away ...
Children go to jail, for lack of options
Boston Globe, United States - May 11, 2008
There were no readily available placements in either the Commonwealth's child welfare or mental health systems. Maria's case is extreme, but she is hardly ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (5/2/2008 - 5/9/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Sorting Through the Texas Polygamist Custody Case
NPR – May 9, 2008
"This influx is straining the already overburdened foster care system," she says, adding that the state child welfare system is "struggling with high ...
Program helps families remain intact
The South Florida Times, FL – May 9, 2008
The nation’s child welfare system began with a singular focus to protect children from abusive parents. The first set of federal laws governing child ...
Prisons help inmates' babies
San Jose Mercury News, USA - May 8, 2008
The Nevada Department of Corrections wants to start working with state and county child welfare agencies to ensure infants born to women inmates don't end ...
State high court takes on unique custodial question
Knoxville News Sentinel, TN - May 7, 2008
The state's highest court opted to step in and take on the chore of crafting the relational benchmark for holding someone accountable for a child's welfare. ...
Polygamist sect work takes toll on social workers
Austin American-Statesman, TX - May 7, 2008
At one point, more than 700 state child welfare workers were assigned to the case. That doesn't include the scores of lawyers, therapists and social workers ...
State closes "flawed" office to help black children in welfare system
Seattle Times, United States - May 7, 2008
The idea behind OAACS (pronounced "oasis") came from decades of concern about African-American kids in the child-welfare system, according to Germaine ...
Utah's teen birth rate increases for first time in 10 years
Deseret News, UT - May 6, 2008
Some public health and child welfare advocates in Utah believe the statistics are another reminder that the greater and more accurate the sources of ...
The Faces of Foster Care: Improving Outcomes for Children of Color
Compton Bulletin, CA - May 6, 2008
Child welfare issues arise in families of every race, ethnicity, culture and age group. Although research shows that there is no difference in the incidence ...
The Brooklyn Young Mother’s Collective Counters Stereotypes About ...
Brooklyn Rail, NY - May 6, 2008
People are subject to child welfare investigations when things go wrong, for example if they lose their housing or their lives are disrupted when a ...
Bills seek to help Michigan foster care system
Chicago Tribune, United States - May 6, 2008
Last month, the state Department of Human Services announced a 60-member task force aimed at improving Michigan child welfare systems.
Partial Federal Takeover Of DCF Urged
Hartford Courant, United States - May 6, 2008
By ARIELLE LEVIN BECKER | Courant Staff Writer Nearly 6000 Connecticut children live in the state child welfare system, and for many of them, ...
Child welfare changes its rules By Karen Mahabir
Washington Times, DC - May 4, 2008
By Karen Mahabir AP The District has made changes to its troubled child-welfare agency since four girls were found dead in a row house in January, ...
Report: More than 3000 get names taken off child abuse list
Chicago Tribune, United States - May 4, 2008
Supporters of the child welfare system say in cases where child abuse is suspected, caseworkers must always put protecting children first. ...
'Cultural guide' helps Texans understand FLDS children
Deseret News, UT - May 2, 2008
Information for the guide was collected from law enforcement and child welfare agencies in Utah and Arizona as well as former FLDS members, said Patrick ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (4/25/2008 - 5/1/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Feds are stymied in probes of FLDS
Deseret News, UT – May 2, 2008
When Texas child welfare workers responded to the ranch, authorities said they found evidence of other abuse, including teenage mothers. ...
Teens Taken From NM Doomsday Church
ABC News - May 1, 2008
Child welfare officials will work with the district attorney in Union County, NM, as the criminal investigation continues. "We're conducting a thorough ...
New Adoption Subsidies May Fall To Cost Cuts
Tampa Tribune, FL - Apr 30, 2008
"The major goal for our child welfare system is to get these children adopted into loving homes," said state. Sen. Nan Rich, D-Sunrise, who sits on the ...
State too secret on children, groups say
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Apr 30, 2008
But some in the community believe the law has been used to hide the actions or inactions of others working in the child welfare system. ...
Litigation ends in child welfare case
News Courier, AL - Apr 30, 2008
(AP) — Litigation has ended in a long-running child welfare case that placed the Alabama Department of Human Resources under federal oversight from 1991 to ...
Nevada credited for abuse policies
Nevada Appeal, NV - Apr 29, 2008
High-profile child deaths rocked public confidence in child welfare, especially in the Las Vegas area where audits found serious problems with ...
Caretakers get hints on handling children seized in Texas
The Associated Press - Apr 26, 2008
A judge awarded custody of the children to the state after child-welfare officials argued they could be in danger in Eldorado, where officials say young ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (4/18/2008 - 4/25/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Mothers from polygamous sect separated from young children
The Associated Press - Apr 25, 2008
Child welfare officials removed the children on suspicion of physical and sexual abuse after a family violence center received calls from a female saying ...
Police investigate abuse claim regarding 12-year-old mother
Altoona Mirror, PA – Apr 25, 2008
Before becoming director of the county’s child welfare service, Burger was a nurse in California . She once tended to a 10-year-old mother. ...
Court to Hear Challenge on Sect Children
New York Times, United States – Apr 24, 2008
... are representing 48 mothers in the tangled child welfare case that each family be permitted to respond to abuse accusations before their children were ...
Caring for their own flesh and blood
Warren Times Gazette, RI - Apr 24, 2008
"We're not seeing increases in the number of kids in the child welfare system," said Lisa Guillette, executive director of the Rhode Island Foster Parents ...
Partnership credited for helping foster kids
News-Leader.com, MO - Apr 24, 2008
Marilyn Nolan, president of Alternative Opportunities Inc., a Springfield group that manages child welfare cases, said foster parents are great recruiters. ...
Detective works with agency to investigate child abuse cases
Statesman Journal, OR - Apr 23, 2008
... department arrive in myriad ways — some through standard telephone reports, but the majority from the Department of Human Services (DHS) Child Welfare. ...
Remedy sought for lack of foster homes in area
Bloomington Pantagraph, USA - Apr 19, 2008
De Los Santos, now 25, was one of seven children in a family that lived in a station wagon before child welfare workers placed him with a family on a farm ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (4/11/2008 - 4/18/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Investigator says girls pregnant in polygamist sect
The Associated Press – Apr 18, 2008
Child welfare officials claim the children were abused or in imminent danger of abuse because the sect encourages girls younger than 18 to marry and have ...
Foster parents' names public - for now
Cincinnati Enquirer, OH - Apr 18, 2008
"The problem with child welfare is that it is too secretive and it is too closed," said Fox. Under different leadership, Butler County Children Services had ...
Sex Offenders Living In Houses Used For Child Care
KGTV, 10News.com, CA - Apr 17, 2008
Mary Harris of County Child Welfare Services said, "It's very alarming. We want our children to be safe." Harris said there are safeguards in place but ...
Report finds trends in child deaths
Union Democrat, CA - Apr 17, 2008
The Child Death Review Team, made up of officials from the Sheriff's Office, the Sonora Police Department, the Public Health Department, Child Welfare ...
Monitor says child welfare system still improving
Asbury Park Press, NJ - Apr 17, 2008
By Michael Rispoli • GANNETT STATE BUREAU • April 17, 2008 TRENTON — New Jersey's child welfare system continues to improve, but the departure of two top ...
Single men are filling the parenting void
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - Apr 16, 2008
"The child welfare system is predominantly female," she said. "So many of these young men and young boys need that father figure in their lives desperately. ...
Dispute on Treatment of Children After Raid
New York Times , United States - Apr 16, 2008
Texas child welfare officials and parents of many of the more than 400 children seized in a raid on a polygamist religious compound in West Texas differ ...
Gov. Ritter Signs Order to Recommend Child Welfare Changes
My Fox Colorado.com, CO - Apr 16, 2008
Bill Ritter signed an executive order Wednesday creating a committee to recommend changes in the child welfare system, calling the deaths of 13 children ...
New Data Show Child Sexual Abuse Down 5 Percent Nationally
Newswise (press release) - Apr 16, 2008
... by providing high-quality research and statistics to the public, policy makers, law enforcement personnel, and other child welfare practitioners. ...
Hillsboro couple asks DHS to leave grandchild in US
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Apr 15, 2008
"One of the goals of child welfare is permanency," Parker said. "Siblings with a lifetime bond represent that permanency." In December 2007, a committee ...
Bleak Stories Follow a Lawsuit on Oklahoma Foster Care
New York Times , United States - Apr 15, 2008
Last year, 14 years of court monitoring ended after the state quadrupled its spending on child welfare and cut caseloads to 18 from 50. ...
Raid of polygamist compound delivers daunting task for Child ...
Dallas Morning News, TX - Apr 13, 2008
But former child welfare officials and outsiders who deal with CPS have their doubts. Since a complete overhaul of the agency four years ago, ...
Take Children's Anger Seriously, Experts Say
Hartford Courant, United States - Apr 13, 2008
... worries about a test grade or fight with a friend, added Andy Reitz, a child consultant with the Child Welfare League of America in Boston. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (4/4/2008 - 4/11/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Authorities Say Hands Were Tied In Polygamous Sect Case
KWTX, TX – Apr 11, 2008
Texas Ranger Captain Barry Caver said it was hard for child welfare officials to find and remove all of the children from the commune. ...
Colorado City CPS call resembles one made in Texas
Arizona Republic, AZ – Apr 11, 2008
Arizona child-welfare officials are investigating a call from a 16-year-old girl alleging sexual abuse in the polygamist stronghold of Colorado City - a ...
State Agencies More Able to Protect MO Children
KSPR , MO - Apr 10, 2008
... child welfare agencies, and public and private elementary and secondary schools as well as state and local educational agencies. ...
Crow Agency's child advocacy center seen as model for tribes
Billings Gazette, USA - Apr 10, 2008
The Care Center and its multidisciplinary team approach was singled out during a session of the second annual Indian Child Welfare Conference in Billings. ...
Jailing young offenders poses dilemma
The Virginian-Pilot, VA - Apr 8, 2008
Betty Wade Coyle, a child welfare advocate who is also a member of an advisory council to the juvenile court, said she is concerned that services don’t ...
Child care advocates endorse Infant Protection Act at conference
Rockford Register Star, IL - Apr 8, 2008
Those 24 babies are the reason medical and child welfare advocates held press conferences in 14 Illinois cities Tuesday to ask the public to spread the word ...
County accepts foster youth academic performance grant
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Apr 8, 2008
... six counselors to assist the approximately 3200 school-age children in foster homes, said Mary Harris, the county's director of child welfare services. ...
Wis. governor vetoes expanded access to juvenile court records
WBAY , WI - Apr 7, 2008
It also would have opened the records to the state Department of Health and Family Services, county human services departments and licensed child welfare ...
Early Neglect Predicts Aggressive Behavior In Children, Study Shows
Science Daily (press release) - Apr 7, 2008
"The lack of attention devoted to the problem of neglect -- the so-called 'neglect of neglect' -- is a long-standing concern in the child welfare field," ...
System divides cases according to their peril
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - Apr 7, 2008
Under the new system, child maltreatment reports fall into four categories ranging from no response to a Child Welfare Services investigation. ...
Critics find flaws with new DHS abuse rules
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Apr 6, 2008
DHS workers, a judge and other child-welfare professionals agreed in January 2008 that Antwuan and Tiara Williams were safe to parent again. ...
State Scrambles To Find Foster Homes For Girls Removed From Compound
KWTX, TX - Apr 5, 2008
(April 5, 2008)-- Child welfare officials scrambled to find foster homes for dozens of girls removed from a secretive and secluded West Texas religious ...
Stipends for foster kids among proposed budget cuts
Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL - Apr 4, 2008
... care and adoption services in Volusia and Flagler counties, said cuts would hit child welfare, along with substance-abuse and mental-health programs. ...
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National Child Welfare News Clippings (3/28/2008 - 4/4/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Child Protective Services questioning children at polygamist complex
KDBC , TX – Apr 4, 2008
AP - April 4, 2008 12:05 PM ET ELDORADO, Texas (AP) - Residents of a polygamist ranch in West Texas reportedly are cooperating with a state child welfare ...
Committee Clears Evans Bill to Protect Foster Youth
California Chronicle, CA – Apr 4, 2008
Requires the child welfare agency to report in all subsequent reports to the juvenile court on the effectiveness, any side effects and the child's ...
Legislators rush to find replacement funds for child welfare
Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA – Apr 3, 2008
By CRAIG SCHNEIDER With time running out, state lawmakers are scrambling to fill a $13 million hole in child welfare funding, raising fears that jobs could ...
Indianapolis to Host Foster Care Program
Inside INdiana Business (press release), IN - Apr 3, 2008
Indianapolis, Ind. -- The 2416 local children and youth who are in the child welfare system can expect more community support as they transition to ...
Home-school ruling centers on protection
Washington Times, DC - Apr 2, 2008
Lost amid the ensuing culture-war debates over parental control versus public schools is the specific child-welfare case heard by the California Court of ...
Lawyer Testifies That DC's Child Welfare Agency in Crisis
WJLA , DC - Apr 2, 2008
A children's rights lawyer says DC's child welfare agency is in crisis after thousands of new reports flooded the agency in recent months. ...
State improves screening in cases of alleged child abuse
Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - Apr 2, 2008
By Peter Hirschfeld Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER – Sweeping changes in the state's child welfare system will soon alter the way Vermont handles ...
State marks hiring of 800-plus new child welfare workers
The Rensselaer Republican, IN - Apr 1, 2008
By MIKE SMITH, AP Political Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The state on Monday marked the hiring of more than 800 additional child welfare caseworkers since ...
Idaho reports longer stays in foster care
Trading Markets (press release), CA - Mar 30, 2008
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved 18 new positions for child welfare workers, 12 social workers and six technicians who help social ...
DCF Comes Up Short In Own Review
Tampa Tribune, FL - Mar 28, 2008
More than 40000 children receive child welfare services funded by DCF, according to the report, completed this month. Al Zimmerman, a former DCF spokesman, ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (3/21/2008 - 3/28/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Federal appeals court agrees to end Ala.'s foster care oversight
al.com, AL – Mar 28, 2008
AP MONTGOMERY (AP) — A federal appeals court has agreed it's time to end federal oversight of Alabama's child welfare system. The 11th US Circuit Court of ...
Child welfare veteran named to head NJ child welfare agency
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA – Mar 27, 2008
AP The Division of Youth and Family Services is the state's leading child protection and welfare agency. Mozes will oversee a work force of 4000. ...
DSS will hire more social workers
Boston Globe, United States - Mar 26, 2008
The Child Welfare League of America recommends that a social worker handle no more than 12 to 15 cases at a time. "This year, lowering the caseloads was our ...
Waterloo baby's death prompts state review of child-welfare system
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Mar 26, 2008
Lawmakers requested a face-to-face meeting with Concannon after a Des Moines Sunday Register investigation detailed how child-welfare officials found ...
Bill creates office to reduce blacks in child welfare
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Mar 26, 2008
... passed a bill that would create a separate state office to work on reducing the disproportionate number of blacks in Kentucky 's child-welfare system. ...
Former foster children guaranteed CSUSM slots
North County Times, CA - Mar 25, 2008
... for youth who lack the support given to many of their peers when it comes time to consider college, said Margo Fudge, a county child welfare official. ...
Improved Services Benefit Children and Their Families
ReadMedia (Press Release), NY - Mar 25, 2008
It outlines eight broad areas where the two systems can work together to improve substance abuse, juvenile justice and child welfare issues. ...
Lives rebuilt, a page at a time
Chicago Tribune, United States - Mar 24, 2008
Now, child welfare professionals have figured out a way to preserve personal histories for this transient group: a powerful new tool called a Lifebook. ...
Courts lose some say on kids in state's care
Indianapolis Star, United States - Mar 23, 2008
James W. Payne, who heads the Department of Child Services, called the legislation "a unique opportunity to move forward" with child welfare reforms ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (3/14/2008 - 3/21/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Hawaii Supreme Court upholds $1.1M abuse lawsuit
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - Mar 21, 2008
... then suffered life-threatening internal organ injuries two months later while the department's Child Welfare Services Branch was still investigating the ...
Amber: Her first name became a household word linked to alert
The Huntsville Times - al.com, AL - Mar 20, 2008
Simpson told the audience of child welfare and safety advocates who came to the conference to learn how to better work their caseloads that he would share ...
Report: Connecticut has critical shortage of foster parents
Stamford Advocate, CT - Mar 20, 2008
However, a report by a federal official monitoring state child welfare services shows that some have been stuck there for nearly a year because they have no ...
House approves CPS bills
Arizona Republic , AZ - Mar 19, 2008
Jonathan Paton, R-Tucson, said he believes public scrutiny will help make meaningful reforms at the child-welfare agency. "Our whole principle of government ...
New Program To Take Early Action to Help Those Failing
Washington Post, United States - Mar 18, 2008
Fenty fired six child welfare workers and criticized the city for failing to follow up after the girls stopped going to their public charter schools. ...
A Day In The Life Of A DCF Case Worker
CBS 4, FL - Mar 18, 2008
MIAMI (CBS4) ― More than 45000 children are a part of Florida 's child welfare system and hundreds of thousands of families deal with health, homelessness, ...
Guilty Verdict in Nixzmary Brown Case
New York Times, United States - Mar 18, 2008
... first trial in one of the most horrific child deaths in the city’s recent history, one that triggered an overhaul of the city’s child welfare system. ...
Use of foster care down across state
Allentown Morning Call, PA - Mar 16, 2008
Giosyra's family, which includes Johnson's year-old twin boys, Jazyr and Jalyr McKoy, illustrates the efforts of child welfare workers to keep children in ...
Foster care bias program shuffled
Kentucky.com, KY - Mar 15, 2008
Manson said she has continued to conduct the workshops called Race, Community and the Child Welfare System in areas with the biggest problems. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (3/7/2008 - 3/14/2008)
Child Welfare News:
House panel OKs child-welfare office
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY – Mar 14, 2008
The national foundation is willing to provide up to $3 million over the next four years for child welfare work in Kentucky , including efforts to address ...
Child welfare veteran tapped to take over families agency
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - Mar 12, 2008
BY SUSAN K. LIVIO A 33-year veteran of the child welfare system will lead its parent agency, the state Department of Children and Families, while a search ...
Senate committee wants to require "cross-reporting"
WJBC News, IL - Mar 11, 2008
By Melissa Hahn and Erick Stock A state Senate committee wants to require animal welfare investigators to report child abuse, and child welfare ...
State's Web Site Dedicated to Locating Missing Foster Children
KHNL-TV/KHBC/KOGG, HI - Mar 11, 2008
... missing children and we need to do whatever we can to bring them back to care," said Peggy Hilton, East Hawaii Child Welfare Services Section Administrator.
License Plate Promotes Adoption Awareness
Kentucky Post, KY - Mar 10, 2008
... issues surrounding adoption," said Patricia R. Wilson, commissioner of the Department for Community Based Services, the state’s child welfare agency. ...
WELFARE CHIEF PUSHES FOSTER-KID GREEN CARDS
New York Post, NY - Mar 10, 2008
... children in their custody to prevent them from "aging out" before getting green cards, according to a new edict from the state's child-welfare czar. ...
A woman who lost her sons to child protection system gives back ...
Ventura County Star, CA - Mar 9, 2008
"Because they've been through it, they know how intimidating the child welfare system can seem." That doesn't mean advice centers entirely on the highly ...
Report finds holes in city's child-protection safety net
Rocky Mountain News, CO - Mar 8, 2008
But even then, White said, "We will never be able to fill all of the gaps in child welfare. Human services isn't our top priority as a country. ...
Hearing puts focus on child welfare
Sturgis Journal , MI - Mar 7, 2008
Pearce and Emmons agreed it was heartening to see so many people interested in child welfare. Rep. Law added, "We will continue to show light on what is ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (2/29/2008 - 3/7/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Mohegans Honored For Helping Kids
TheDay, CT – Mar 7, 2008
By Heather Allen , Standing before a ballroom full of child welfare workers and specialists, the Mohegan Tribe was recognized for its state and national ...
State faults county agency for infant’s death
Wilkes Barre Citizen's Voice, PA - Mar 6, 2008
BY MICHAEL P. BUFFER The state should closely monitor Luzerne County’s child-welfare agency for six months, according to a state ruling faulting the county ...
More Kids Kept Out Of Foster Care
Tampa Tribune, FL - Mar 5, 2008
Robert Wexler, executive director of the coalition, gives credit to Hillsborough Kids Inc., the nonprofit agency that handles child welfare here, ...
Parents in Crisis Have Many Options for Giving Babies Haven ...
New York Times, United States - Mar 5, 2008
Though the safe haven law that the livery cab driver was trying to use generally applies only to newborns less than a week old, child welfare experts said ...
Firings Of Child Welfare Workers Appealed
NBC 4.com, DC - Mar 5, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Three DC child welfare workers who were fired for failing to help four young girls found dead in a rowhouse last month are continuing to fight ...
Oklahoma: House approves performance audit of Department of Human ...
Joplin Globe, MO - Mar 4, 2008
AP OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma House Tuesday voted to authorize a performance audit of services provided by the state’s child welfare agency, but opponents ...
State Needs Greater Effort To Place Foster Children
Springdale Morning News, AR - Mar 4, 2008
"If you can't find homes, then the child welfare system needs to help them find adults that can serve as mentors to them, to provide advice and guidance ...
House passes child welfare bill
Honolulu Advertiser, HI - Mar 4, 2008
The Department of Human Services could conduct unannounced child welfare visits to homes in which a household member had been convicted or stood trial for ...
Finding a family takes a long time for some
Cherry Hill Courier Post, NJ - Mar 4, 2008
That was far more than the 1400 adoptions it was required to complete, following the settlement of a child welfare lawsuit. The number of children in its ...
Child Welfare Chief Resigns After 2½ Years
News4Jax.com, FL - Mar 4, 2008
Some child advocates expressed concern about instability in the DFCS. "It's terrible for the system," Normer Adams, head of the Georgia Association of Homes ...
Former foster child now a caseworker for children
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - Mar 3, 2008
At 23, the single mother is barely out of the child-welfare system herself. She is one of two former foster children who have come back to work for the ...
To Recruit Caseworkers, a Dose of Reality
New York Times , United States - Mar 3, 2008
As in other child welfare agencies across the country, the retention of qualified workers is a perennial problem for children’s services. ...
Kin will be able to take in abused kids
Deseret News, UT - Mar 2, 2008
Kinship placement was prohibited, state child welfare officials said, because under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, all potential adoptive ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (2/22/2008 - 2/29/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Caseworkers get more training after 4th child death in 9 months
KJCT8.com, CO – Feb 29, 2008
She said her leaving is unrelated to the deaths. Two studies are looking into deaths of children after coming to the attention of child welfare agencies.
DHS’ task of uncovering child abuse a non-stop responsibility
The News-Review, OR - Feb 28, 2008
Intake screener Mary Guthrie pulls the file of a client in the file room at the Oregon Department of Human Services Child Welfare office in Roseburg. ...
Efforts to Recruit, Retain and Research Nation's Social Workers ...
FOXBusiness - Feb 28, 2008
HR 5447 will create a commission to research social work's impact in practice areas such as aging, child welfare, military and veteran's affairs, ...
Adoption decisions questioned
Akron Beacon Journal, OH - Feb 27, 2008
... Rhode Island , Guam and Puerto Rico require the consent of the minor's parents in an adoption, according to the Child Welfare Information Gateway, ...
National Council on Disability Says Older Youth With Disabilities ...
FOXBusiness - Feb 27, 2008
"The child welfare community generally accepts the fact that, while the American foster care system has come a long way in recent years, there is still much ...
Senate OKs child advocate
The Republican - MassLive.com, MA - Feb 27, 2008
Stanley C. Rosenberg, D-Amherst, said the bill revamps the state's child welfare programs. "There are still gaps in the system," he said after the vote. ...
Mental health bill focuses on programs for children
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Feb 26, 2008
One desired outcome would be to divert young people with mental illness from unnecessary involvement with law enforcement, corrections and child welfare ...
Leech Lake provides Welfare Program
Bemidji Pioneer, MN - Feb 25, 2008
11, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe has assumed responsibility for responding to child maltreatment reports and providing child welfare services on the Leech ...
Court project works to improve well-being of children
Greeley Tribune, CO - Feb 25, 2008
In Weld County, we recognize that our community must meet and deal with the emotions that children and parents naturally experience when a child-welfare ...
Report: Some DCF cases wrongly closed
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Feb 23, 2008
TALLAHASSEE - Child-welfare caseworkers in Miami wrongly closed some cases, but there was no evidence that it was done simply to manipulate the workers' ...
Failure to report child abuse would be a crime in Maryland
Examiner.com - Feb 23, 2008
The bill is designed to encourage teachers, health care and social workers to notify child-welfare workers in local departments of social services, ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (2/15/2008 - 2/22/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Florida to be first state to use GPS devices for child welfare ...
Ocala.com, FL – Feb 22, 2008
BY JENNIFER KAY AP MIAMI — Florida's child welfare workers will soon be carrying handheld GPS devices, similar to ones carried by UPS employees to track ...
Lawmakers approve measure ordering audit of DHS division
KSWO , OK – Feb 21, 2008
... go-ahead for an independent performance audit of services provided by the state's child welfare agency to children who have been abused or neglected. ...
Kids lose out to paperwork
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Feb 21, 2008
SALEM -- Oregon child welfare caseworkers spend about 75 minutes each day with the children or families in their care. Much of their time is chewed up with ...
County OKs memorandum with Leech Lake
Bemidji Pioneer, MN - Feb 20, 2008
The memorandum of understanding approved Tuesday by commissioners allows the county to turn over certain child welfare cases to Leech Lake ’s new Leech Lake ...
Alabama DHR has made progress, but concerns about permanent ...
The Birmingham News - al.com, AL - Feb 20, 2008
A state-created commission of child welfare experts has found that the Alabama Department of Human Resources continues to improve and be a model for the ...
Program offers an enlightening taste of poverty
Chicago Tribune, United States - Feb 20, 2008
As a state child welfare worker, Vicky Darley sees people every day who cannot pay their bills and struggle to hold their families together. ...
Deaths of kids raise oversight questions
Indianapolis Star, United States - Feb 17, 2008
KELLY WILKINSON / The Star In 33 states, the death of a youth who was or should have been involved with the child welfare system would be investigated by an ...
CPS hopes to increase the number of children places with kin after ...
Waco Tribune Herald, TX - Feb 17, 2008
The child welfare agency has long placed children who cannot be cared for by their parents with other family members. But the program is an intensified push ...
Lawsuit may force reforms to Michigan foster care system
MLive.com, MI - Feb 17, 2008
... Maureen Sorbet said in a written statement. She said the department's primary focus continues to be fundamental reform of child welfare services.
Iowa high court says tribe can determine custody
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Feb 15, 2008
... they are considered children of the tribal community and therefore may be considered an Indian child under the Iowa Indian Child Welfare Act. The state ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (2/8/2008 - 2/15/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Foster children need dental care
Pasadena Star-News, CA – Feb 15, 2008
At the " Child Welfare Dental Summit" at the Arboretum of Los Angeles County in Arcadia , dental and medical professionals and county officials came together ...
Group seeks to improve foster care in Utah
Daily Herald, UT - Feb 14, 2008
Utah 's is the only child welfare system in the country that is so cumbersome, and the children pay the price, Hart said. Hart is one of a dozen members of ...
Panel Pitches Early Intervention Plan
Hartford Courant, United States - Feb 14, 2008
Board members, who included lawmakers, child welfare experts, educators and court personnel, were surprised to see little or no funding for these ...
Foster children keep voice in DCF system
Bradenton Herald, United States - Feb 13, 2008
Charlie Crist to take over the troubled child welfare agency after a series of high-profile cases including the 2002 disappearance of 4-year-old Rilya ...
Lawsuit against DHS seeks changes in state child welfare system
KTEN , TX - Feb 13, 2008
It calls for changes throughout the state's child welfare system. It accuses DHS of violating the constitutional rights of children by routinely putting ...
Termination of parental rights is the last resort
Lock Haven Express, PA - Feb 13, 2008
Under Pennsylvania law, involuntary termination is used as a child welfare tool in only the most exceptional circumstances. There might have been a parent ...
Senate study calls for improvements to DCYF services
Providence Journal, RI - Feb 12, 2008
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee’s report notes that steps are being taken to improve the state’s child-welfare system, but that it continues ...
Mich. lawmakers frustrated with progress on DHS computer system
MLive.com, MI - Feb 12, 2008
(AP) — Frustrated state lawmakers are asking questions about delays in a new computer system for the state department that oversees child welfare and other ...
State child welfare budget criticized
Baltimore Sun, United States - Feb 12, 2008
Also, the state does not meet recommended standards for caseload ratios that were established by the Child Welfare League of America. ...
For immigrants, child-welfare solutions murky
Columbus Dispatch, OH - Feb 11, 2008
As the US immigrant population has grown, so too has its contact with the child-welfare system. Advice and direction for social workers hasn't always ...
CASE STUDY: Kinship care, a cousin
Lock Haven Express, PA - Feb 8, 2008
Child welfare agencies increasingly are turning to kinship care for children in need of out-of-home placements. Kinship care is also increasing outside the ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (2/1/2008 - 2/8/2008)
Child Welfare News:
County DHS ramps up oversight of foster care
Colorado Springs Gazette, CO – Feb 8, 2008
The head of child-welfare investigations for El Paso County DHS is reviewing all reported incidences of injury or medical treatment — no matter how minor ...
Reaction to Negative Foster Care Report
WLNS, MI - Feb 7, 2008
There's reaction to the latest report claiming Michigan’s child welfare system is failing. The new report says case workers aren't checking in on foster ...
FAMILY SERVICES: Agency's practices criticized
Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - Feb 7, 2008
Its content angered child welfare advocates who have been pressing Clark County to reform its faulty system of care for abused and neglected juveniles. ...
Child Welfare Chief Praised as He Leaves New Jersey Post
New York Times, United States - Feb 5, 2008
By TINA KELLEY NEWARK — When Kevin M. Ryan took over the child welfare system he had critiqued so persistently as New Jersey’s child advocate, ...
Oregon gets failing grade in foster care
KVAL , OR - Feb 5, 2008
Seven years ago, a similar federal review found that Oregon 's child welfare safety net failed to meet standards in eight key areas. ...
Struggles of former foster child chronicled in new memoir
Florida Times-Union, FL - Feb 3, 2008
... 80000 pages of documents generated by the court and state child welfare workers as they shuffled her through 14 different foster homes in nine years. ...
Foster Parents Warn Of Impact Of Proposed Stipend Cuts
WMTW , ME - Feb 1, 2008
The cuts are the result of a projected $5 million shortfall in Maine 's child welfare program. A state official told the group that the reduced stipends ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (1/25/2008 - 2/1/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Foster parents fear effects of stipend cuts
MaineToday.com, ME – Feb 1, 2008
... said the cuts are the result of a projected $5.2 million shortfall in the child welfare program linked to lower-than-expected tax revenues. ...
Youths in child welfare system behave better with early intervention
PhysOrg.com, VA – Jan 31, 2008
The current child welfare system emphasizes services to youths experiencing serious behavior problems, but spends less effort on preventive services, ...
County begins $1 million campaign to recruit foster parents
Akron Beacon Journal, OH - Jan 30, 2008
Hamilton County child welfare officials hope to fill their need with the help of business and nonprofit groups by raising $1 million for a recruiting ...
KY Bill Looks to Open Sealed Child Protection Cases
WBKO , KY - Jan 30, 2008
Some lawmakers say cases involving child welfare should no longer be held behind closed doors. Chief Justice Joseph Lambert is among those leading the ...
Plan seeks to help teens in foster care
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), WI - Jan 29, 2008
Denise Revels Robinson, director of the state-run Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare, said she welcomes the initiative. "Community-based efforts are welcomed ...
County Announces New Child Welfare Ombudsman
KLAS-TV, NV - Jan 29, 2008
People with complaints about Clark County's child welfare system now have someone whose job it is to listen. The county announced Tuesday its new ombudsman ...
Cost of preventing child abuse rising
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - Jan 29, 2008
Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed 11percent child-welfare cut would leave the agency with a $25 million shortfall. "We consider this an issue of life and ...
Youth Death Toll In 2006 Was 157
Washington Post, United States - Jan 28, 2008
And 59 of the 157 children met the definition for review as "a child welfare fatality," according to the report, because either they or their families were ...
Lower child death rate
Muskogee Daily Phoenix, OK - Jan 28, 2008
State child welfare officials contested the ranking, saying that Oklahoma includes reports of child drownings and other accidents that other states don’t ...
Study finds that children in the welfare system have stable health ...
News from Washington University in St. Louis, MO - Jan 28, 2008
28, 2008 -- A majority of children in the child welfare system maintain stable health coverage, finds a first-of-its-kind study published in the current ...
• New focus on foster kids' meds
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Jan 28, 2008
Dr. Bruce Goldberg, a physician and Human Services director, asked a team of doctors, nurses and child welfare experts to recommend changes before the ...
Lawmakers look at quality of state's human services
Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - Jan 26, 2008
Vermont's family and child welfare system is restructuring itself after a federal review last fall was highly critical of how the Department for Children ...
Lawsuit Challenges Foster System
Tampa Tribune, FL - Jan 25, 2008
Unfortunately, child welfare systems across the country tend to act like the children never existed once they turn 18."
National Child Welfare News Clippings (1/18/2008 - 1/25/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Announcing the Call for Papers for the Scaling the Summit Institute
Jan 25, 2008
Explore concrete solutions for recruitment, selection, and retention of child welfare staff. Do you have a project, an initiative, or research program to share with your colleagues across the country? If so, we invite you to submit a Call for Papers to the Scaling the Summit Institute to be held in Denver, Colorado on August 5th and 6th and presented by the Butler Institute for Families at the University of Denver. The Scaling the Summit Institute committee is looking for presentations on practical strategies to address recruitment, selection, and retention issues that show some evidence of success.
Child welfare chief stepping down
NorthJersey.com, NJ – Jan 25, 2008
BY ADRIENNE LU The man who has led the overhaul of New Jersey's child welfare services will leave state government by the end of February to take a ...
MINNESOTA: Plan would include Red Lake in initiative for paying ...
Grand Forks Herald (subscription), ND – Jan 25, 2008
Skoe said his bill will put Red Lake into a pilot program of the American Indian Child Welfare Initiative with the state.
Outside panel commends DHS reforms and says more is needed
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA – Jan 24, 2008
Spigner, a University of Pennsylvania professor and a national expert on child-welfare issues, implored the mayor to make the changes a priority. ...
Lawmakers look at quality of state's human services
Rutland Herald, VT - Jan 24, 2008
Vermont's family and child welfare system is restructuring itself after a federal review last fall was highly critical of how the Department for Children ...
Bill That Would Require Report Of Abuse Gets Lingle Support
KITV.com, HI - Jan 23, 2008
Because of her history of drug abuse, Chanco and her three children had been part of the child welfare system. The department was scheduled to contact ...
The Rough-and-Tumble Online Universe Traversed by Young Cybernauts
New York Times, United States - Jan 22, 2008
Her documentary credits include “Failure to Protect,” a series about Maine’s child welfare system, and “Hillary’s Class,” about the 1969 Wellesley College ...
Child Welfare: Turnover too high among social workers, foster homes
KPAX-TV, MT - Jan 22, 2008
AP - January 22, 2008 6:04 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Michelle Britton with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare asked lawmakers today to approve a ...
Police investigate death at home targeted under new system
WTHR, IN - Jan 22, 2008
It gives police access to data from the Indiana Department of Child Services, and allows child welfare workers, in turn, to be notified about potentially ...
Helping Grandparents And Other Relatives Raise Children
HealthNewsDigest.com, NY - Jan 19, 2008
... The Brookdale Foundation Group, Casey Family Programs, Child Welfare League of America , Children's Defense Fund and Generations United. ...
DCF abuse investigators overloaded, report finds
MiamiHerald.com, FL - Jan 19, 2008
A new report on Miami-Dade's troubled child welfare program finds child abuse investigators are dedicated but overworked and insufficiently trained. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (1/11/2008 - 1/18/2008)
Child Welfare News:
Cherokee Nation program strives to promote positive fatherhood
Muskogee Daily Phoenix, OK – Jan 18, 2008
The Cherokee Nation is trying to raise awareness with the “Kards for Kids” project run by the Indian Child Welfare staff. The note cards have images of ...
Nixzmary's Ghost Still Haunts Family Court System
Brooklyn Downtown STAR - Jan 16, 2008
"You can't talk about child welfare without looking at Family Court," said Councilman Bill de Blasio, who represents parts of Brooklyn. ...
Lawmakers looking at changes at Child Protective Services
KVOA.com, AZ - Jan 16, 2008
The bills would make some child-welfare records, court proceedings and state employee personnel records open to the public. Adams says the aim is that ...
State to look at child deaths
The Coloradoan, CO - Jan 16, 2008
The state investigates any child's death that is suspected to be the result of abuse or neglect if the family had contact with a county child welfare agency ...
Abuse hot line calls prompt letter from state agency
Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL - Jan 15, 2008
Wexler, with the national coalition, said in some other states the child welfare agency contracts with another agency that reaches out to the family so ...
State bills aim to open CPS records
Arizona Republic , AZ - Jan 15, 2008
State lawmakers are moving to make some child-welfare records, court proceedings and state employee personnel records open to the public in an attempt to ...
Oklahoma tribes step up fight against meth
Indian Country Today, NY - Jan 15, 2008
The need for meth training in Indian country has many facets, said Mary Harjo, an Iowa tribal child welfare worker. ''Around here, you might have a Native ...
Social services chief resigns
Baltimore Sun, United States - Jan 15, 2008
Samuel Chambers Jr., a former child welfare official who worked for decades in Michigan , was hired in October 2004 to improve the city's Social Services ...
NJ sets adoption record for adopted kids in 2007
NJ Blog, New Jersey - Jan 14, 2008
The record was set after the state essentially re-created specialized adoption teams that were dismantled in the early stages of child welfare reform. ...
MySpace, States Agree To Child Safeguards
CBS News, NY - Jan 14, 2008
Warning signs, state-by-state child services information and a history of child welfare reforms. (CBS/AP) The MySpace social networking Web site has reached ...
Foster youth sue for abuse
KTUU , AK - Jan 12, 2008
Dr. Peg Hess, an independent child welfare consultant and witness to the prosecution, poured through dozens of reports that were filed with the OCS alleging ...
Improving services for youth exiting foster care a 'priority'
TheReporter.com, CA - Jan 12, 2008
... for transitional-age youth emancipating from foster care," said Linda Orrante, Health and Social Services deputy director for child welfare services. ...
Recording illustrates problems in TaJanay case
Indianapolis Star, United States - Jan 11, 2008
Under review: Investigators have cited a lack of urgency in TaJanay Bailey's child welfare case. - Photos provided by TaJanay's former foster mother The ...
Hawaii awarded for adoptive and foster care services
KHON2, HI - Jan 11, 2008
She acknowledged that the child welfare department could not have received the national recognition without the help of many other public and private ...
Changes in Child Welfare Funding
Indiana's NewsCenter, IN - Jan 11, 2008
By Jessica Toumani Just as with the school General fund, the state plans to fully fund child welfare costs. Right now, two-thirds of child welfare funding ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (1/4/2008 - 1/11/2008)
Child Welfare News:
New York Life Foundation Grants $748000 to Child Welfare League of ...
PNN, VA - Jan 11, 2008
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) announced today that it was awarded a three-year, $748000 grant from the New York Life Foundation to expand its ...
Improving services for youth exiting foster care a 'priority'
TheReporter.com, CA - Jan 11, 2008
... for transitional-age youth emancipating from foster care," said Linda Orrante, Health and Social Services deputy director for child welfare services.
Busy Courts Mean Backup in Foster Care
WNYC , NY - Jan 11, 2008
Today marks 2 years since the murder of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, an event that shook the city and caused an overhaul of the child welfare system. by Cindy ...
Three willing families, one little baby
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Jan 11, 2008
But once Payge entered the child welfare system, government social workers were forced to referee. They recommended that the Helds keep her. ...
Secretary orders probe of in death of reported neglect victim
Baltimore Examiner, MD - Jan 10, 2008
But child welfare advocates noted that although Maryland has promised to reform after similarly tragic cases, very little has changed. ...
Cops: Dad Threw 4 Children Off Ala. Bridge
CBS News, NY - Jan 9, 2008
(AP Photo) Warning signs, state-by-state child services information and a history of child welfare reforms. (CBS/AP) A man angered after a dispute with his ...
Foster Youth Deliver Recommendations From First Statewide Career ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Jan 9, 2008
The Child Welfare Council should prioritize the creation of common assessments and outcome measures in the areas of permanence, education, and employment ...
Helping Grandparents And Other Relatives Raise Children
North American Press Syndicate, NY - Jan 9, 2008
... The Brookdale Foundation Group, Casey Family Programs, Child Welfare League of America , Children's Defense Fund and Generations United. ...
News 4 investigations lead to changes at CPS
KVOA.com, AZ - Jan 8, 2008
The agency's spokesperson, Liz Barker, tells News 4, "We look forward to continuing to work together on changes that support the child welfare system's ...
DCF Head's Hard Tasks
Hartford Courant, United States - Jan 6, 2008
Karl Kemper, the former head of child welfare under Dunbar and a regional office director under Ragaglia, is now Hamilton's chief of staff. ...
Are Kids Falling Through the Cracks?
KBCI CBS 2, ID - Jan 4, 2008
By Callie Zanandrie The cases are stacking up, Child Welfare Center Director, Kathy Tidwell said, "The work load has increased by a third. ...
Leaving foster care like `falling off a cliff'
MiamiHerald.com, FL - Jan 4, 2008
Child welfare administrators and children's advocates who have seen the report say it confirms their long-standing fears that Florida has done a poor job of ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (12/28/2007- 1/4/2008)
'Child Welfare News:
'Child protection panel seeks legislation in 2008
Kentucky.com, KY – Jan 4, 2008
The Boni Bill provides $3.5 million to fund security improvements at state child welfare offices. Another $2.5 million is earmarked to hire additional ...
Foster Program Needs Social Workers & Foster Parents
Fox 12 Boise, ID – Jan 3, 2008
To help combat the growing problem, Boise State University's Child Welfare Center is training potential child care employees and foster families. ...
Orlando-area family faces losing foster child
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Jan 2, 2008
Because his parental rights were never terminated -- a process that child-welfare workers say is difficult and time-consuming -- his child, like many foster ...
Agency reviewing why more children returning to foster care
Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL - Dec 31, 2007
Child welfare officials have formed a committee that is looking into why more children are returning to foster care less than a year after being reunited ...
Drowning leading cause of death reported to abuse hot line
Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL - Dec 28, 2007
State child-welfare officials report one child-abuse death in 2007 in Volusia County , a 5-month-old Daytona Beach boy who died in April after his mother's ...
A Haven for Children at Court
New York Times, United States - Dec 28, 2007
In the mid-1990s, a state commission made up of government officials and private child welfare advocates was appointed to study the Family Court system. ...
Foster Mother A Home, Love and an Open Heart to More Than 160 Children
New York Times, United States - Dec 28, 2007
As New Jersey continued its court-ordered reforms of the child-welfare system, the Department of Children and Families was able to recruit 1280 foster ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (12/21/2007- 12/28/2007)
Child Welfare News:
'Guardian angels' watch over foster kids
Salem Statesman Journal, OR – December 28, 2007
... said one advantage of having a CASA assigned to foster care cases is their assistance in helping foster parents navigate the child welfare system. ...
Single fathers face dearth of sympathy, housing
St. Petersburg Times, FL – December 8, 2007
A state child welfare worker checks in on the children regularly, ever since their mother was turned in by a neighbor, McKelvey says. ...
New Focus Keeps Families Together
Tampa Tribune, FL - Dec 26, 2007
... children being removed from their homes, a figure being praised statewide and beyond as child welfare advocates push nationally for family preservation. ...
Statewide problems with child services
Elizabethtown News Enterprise, KY - Dec 24, 2007
That report brought the attention of the Office of Inspector General to child welfare services. Richart said Lexington ’s office now is facing what the ...
Deaf foster children find a home closer to home
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Dec 24, 2007
County and child welfare officials hope that having a new home will improve the quality of life for the children. “Most did not grow up in a friendly ...
State on track in meeting kids' needs
NorthJersey.com, NJ - Dec 23, 2007
By HEATHER HADDON For years, child welfare advocates sounded alarms about the failures of New Jersey 's foster care system. Now, they are finally starting to ...
Bill to extend foster care to age 21 aims to help youths learn to ...
The News Journal, DE - Dec 22, 2007
"I'm not leaving child welfare until this gets done," said Deputy Child Advocate Angela Fowler, who has worked in the field for six years. ...
Counties unhappy with child welfare database
Akron Beacon Journal, OH - Dec 21, 2007
By Rick Armon The state should study whether to scrap a new $92 million statewide child-welfare database because it's horribly flawed, some county leaders ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (12/14/2007- 12/21/2007)
Child Welfare News:
Low wages threaten quality of social welfare services
Worcester Telegram, MA – Dec 21, 2007
It is a hard go for those who want to work in child welfare careers. And therefore, not many do. Add to that, about 300 DSS social workers turn over each ...
Tribes often at odds with state foster care system
HeraldNet , WA - Dec 21, 2007
In 1978, the federal government passed the Indian Child Welfare Act, which gave tribal leaders a say in custody matters for reservation children. ...
Single fathers often find bias when in search of assistance
St. Petersburg Times, FL - Dec 21, 2007
A state child welfare worker checks in on the children regularly, ever since their mother was turned in by a neighbor, McKelvey says. ...
No home for the holidays … a former foster youth’s experience
San Francisco Bay View, CA - Dec 20, 2007
These volunteers are everyday heroes who stand up and advocate for children and youth who are in the child welfare system as a result of alleged abuse ...
Study Says Foster Care Benefits Brains
The Associated Press - Dec 20, 2007
... than children who were left behind, concludes a one-of-a-kind project in Romania that has profound implications for child welfare around the globe. ...
County taps interim DSS director
Charlotte Observer, NC - Dec 20, 2007
Officials have said he will develop a symposium on child-welfare issues and related research that will improve the county's ability to deal with such ...
Custody dispute doesn't belong in tribal court, appeals court says
KVIA , TX - Dec 19, 2007
The federal Indian Child Welfare Act gives tribal courts jurisdiction in some custody cases, including foster placements and adoptions of Indian children. ...
Report Shows Significant Progress In Child Welfare
eMaxHealth.com, NC - Dec 19, 2007
The child welfare systems in Fulton and Dekalb counties show significant improvements in the last year according to a report released today by ...
Fixing Vermont Foster Care
WCAX, VT - Dec 18, 2007
"People who work on the front lines of child welfare have the toughest job in government," says Dept. of Children and Families Commissioner Steve Dale. ...
Responding Ind. officers to be notified of child welfare cases
Police News, CA - Dec 18, 2007
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - After weeks of reviewing documents and interviewing people tied to the tragic life of 3-year-old Tajanay Bailey, the Department of ...
Foster children to benefit from Angel Tree project
Norman Transcript, OK - Dec 17, 2007
More than 720 boys and girls in the protective custody care of the Department of Human Services' Child Welfare Unit will have their Christmas wish lists ...
Butler County unique in CS agency growth
Middletown Journal, OH - Dec 17, 2007
"As the population grows and placements grow, the cost of child welfare goes up," he said. But his agency's caseload increase has far outstripped population ...
Glitch revealed sealed records of adoptees
Cincinnati Post, OH - Dec 17, 2007
AP COLUMBUS - A glitch in Ohio's troubled child-welfare system is revealing information from sealed adoption records, a data breach some child advocates say ...
Something of their very own
Jamestown Sun, ND - Dec 17, 2007
Burkett is the child welfare supervisor at Stutsman County Social Services. “It’s a way of helping social workers make it a little easier for the child,” ...
DCS banks on team approach to child issues
Indianapolis Star, United States - Dec 15, 2007
The collaborative process should enable families and caseworkers to identify needs and strengths, including a support network outside the child welfare ...
A Surge in Reports of Abuse
New York Times , United States - Dec 14, 2007
The county executive, Andrew J. Spano, argued that much of the budget’s 3.9 percent property tax increase was needed to pay for additional child welfare ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (12/7/2007- 12/14/2007)
Child Welfare News:
Judge: Names of abused foster children to be disclosed
Detroit Free Press, United States – Dec 14, 2007
Bartosz said the state DHS computerized child welfare information systems were “a record-keeping abomination,” in part because the state is unable to say ...
Children, families involved in foster care honored
Indian Country Today, NY – Dec 14, 2007
WASHINGTON - Tribal leaders and American Indian/Alaska Native parents and youth from across the nation joined child welfare advocates and federal ...
Fewer kids stuck in psych: State lowers number of children in ...
The Patriot Ledger, MA - Dec 13, 2007
This past spring, after a Patriot Ledger report on the high number of stuck kids, state child welfare officials launched a campaign to move children more ...
Lawmakers propose center for youth services
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Dec 13, 2007
The center could provide training and technical assistance for various agencies and help them coordinate the sometimes overlapping work of child welfare, ...
Video: The Advertising Council, HHS and adoptuskids Launch ...
Earthtimes - Dec 12, 2007
Among its responsibilities are child welfare services, including adoption and foster care; child support; the Head Start program; refugee resettlement; ...
Kaine seeks child welfare reforms
Roanoke Times, VA - Dec 11, 2007
The proposed funding increase is part of a series of child welfare reforms included in the new state budget Kaine will introduce Monday. ...
'For Keeps' effort helps older foster children
Richmond Times Dispatch, VA - Dec 11, 2007
The national Annie E. Casey Foundation's strategic consulting group chose Virginia this spring to help in finding ways to improve the child welfare system, ...
When home is not safe: A program for kids in meth homes separates ...
North County Times, CA - Dec 11, 2007
... the need for it was obvious, as between 70 and 80 percent of cases handled by Child Welfare Services are related to substance abuse, Kennedy said. ...
Study finds WA needs 1240 more child welfare caseworkers
Bellingham Herald, WA - Dec 11, 2007
AP State SEATTLE -- Washington state should add about 1240 child welfare caseworkers to keep up with the increasing number of youngsters in foster care or ...
DCS, Police Look at Ways to Share Data Following Girl's Death
Indiana's NewsCenter, IN - Dec 11, 2007
By Peter Ambrose INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The death of a 3-year-old girl while under state supervision is galvanizing police, child welfare workers and court ...
Potent Pills: More foster kids getting mood-altering drugs
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - Dec 9, 2007
At the nonprofit Hillside Children's Center, for instance, 55 percent of the foster children are prescribed one or more psychotropic drugs. ...
A master's degree in protecting kids
MiamiHerald.com, FL - Dec 9, 2007
They are hoping the specialized degree will help promote a better sense of professionalism among those working in child welfare and, as result, ...
Out of tragedy came a new kind of family
Los Angeles Times, CA - Dec 7, 2007
For a time, it appeared they might be placed in separate foster homes by Los Angeles County child welfare officials. That's when Patrick and Shane's ...
Love brought large blended family together
The County Press, MI - Dec 7, 2007
It helped that Barb works for Catholic Charities as a child welfare specialist. One child, Kaleb, has Down Syndrome, and Barb is president of Special ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (11/30/2007- 12/7/2007)
Child Welfare News:
mcewen appointed to run DCFS
Chicago Defender, United States – Dec 7, 2007
Throughout his tenure at the agency, he has worked to ensure that child welfare more appropriately includes fathers and paternal relatives. ...
Senators urging welfare overhaul
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - Dec 7, 2007
Latest from AP By Niki Kelly INDIANAPOLIS – For years county officials charged with raising property taxes for a state-run child welfare program have ...
Upset by foster child's OD, panel grills DYFS officials
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - Dec 6, 2007
Hodgson issued a response: "We are taking a hard look at the progress of child welfare reform in the state, but have been hampered by lack of cooperation ...
NCAI Youth Commission: 'We are leaders now'
Indian Country Today, NY - Dec 6, 2007
There is no more sovereign decision you can make than one that helps children,'' said Terry Cross, executive director of the National Indian Child Welfare ...
Budget cuts could put in jeopardy ACS programs, head warns
New York Daily News, NY - Dec 6, 2007
"Our preventative services are quite good and they are under attack," ACS Commissioner John Mattingly said yesterday at a New School child welfare forum. ...
Gov. Gibbons Tours Clark County's Child Welfare Services
KLAS-TV , NV - Dec 5, 2007
With a system on the brink of collapse and years of problems mounting, child welfare in Clark County is struggling. It's a situation that is on the mind of ...
Kids Count survey: Children's abuse, neglect on rise
Port Huron Times Herald, MI - Dec 5, 2007
"The Kids Count is probably one of the best pictures that's out there, as far as statistics go for child welfare and child safety issues," she said. ...
Courts short of timeliness goals
Baltimore Sun, United States - Dec 3, 2007
In Baltimore City Circuit Court, which Broccolina said handles more child-welfare cases than the rest of the state combined, the backlog for termination of ...
Social work bosses face degree question
The Olympian, WA - Dec 2, 2007
The department's supervisors can use the federally funded Child Welfare Training and Advancement Program to attain their master's degrees over the next few ...
A CPS worker's day
Arizona Daily Star, AZ - Dec 1, 2007
Paris must call that state's child-welfare hot line and hope to get someone who will help her find out. But sometimes she must resort to searching public ...
Grandma to be brought to Oregon in foster-child case
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Dec 1, 2007
Bryan Johnston, head of Oregon's child welfare system, is reviewing the boy's case and decided the grandmother, Cecilia Martinez, should participate, ...
Iowa court rules definition of Indian child unconstitutional
WCCO, MN - Nov 30, 2007
The Iowa Indian Child Welfare Act defines an Indian child as ``an unmarried Indian person who is under 18 years of age or a child who is under 18 years of ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (11/16/2007- 11/30/2007)
Child Welfare News:
Director promises housing changes for neglected kids
Detroit Free Press, United States - Nov 30, 2007
By JACK KRESNAK The director of the state Department of Human Services told a gathering of child welfare advocates in Dearborn on Friday that the DHS can ...
Foster expert: Utah kids spending too much time in shelters
Daily Herald, UT - Nov 30, 2007
24, said Paul Vincent, director of the Alabama-based Child Welfare Policy & Practice Group. The longest recorded stay at the Salt Lake shelter was 83 days. ...
Families split up by the system
HeraldNet , WA - Nov 30, 2007
Some juvenile court officials wonder whether notifying immigration authorities is the best thing for the child's welfare. The state's courts treat juvenile ...
DCFS has jobs - but no DCFS workers need apply
Sauk Valley Newspapers, IL – Nov 29, 2007
BY DANA HEUPEL SPRINGFIELD - The state's child welfare agency wants to fill 187 direct-service jobs across Illinois as soon as possible - but is asking its ...
Mass. Considers Outlawing Spanking
CBS News, NY - Nov 28, 2007
Warning signs, state-by-state child services information and a history of child welfare reforms. (CBS/AP) A bill that would prohibit parents from spanking ...
Report: More state children dying from violence
East Valley Tribune, AZ - Nov 27, 2007
Of the nine children whose families had open child welfare cases, two were outside CPS jurisdiction. Among the other cases were a mother who gave birth to a ...
Tribe Cares For Children
Fort Smith Times Record, AR - Nov 27, 2007
By Jeff Arnold Recent audits of the Cherokee Nation’s child welfare division reveal a system that is largely operating at or above standards established by ...
More kids caught in limbo
The News Journal, DE - Nov 25, 2007
"These are all good things for the child-welfare system, and ASFA has played a key part in that," said Carlyse Giddins, director of the Delaware Division of ...
Other states have tighter rules for medication use
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Nov 25, 2007
In Utah , every child who enters foster care is assigned a registered nurse stationed in a local child welfare office. The state also maintains a database ...
CPS Official Asks for Demotion
KLAS-TV, NV - Nov 21, 2007
Rubin has been one of the agency's public faces during its efforts to improve the county's child welfare system. On Wednesday, Director Tom Morton confirmed ...
Suicide prevention 'toolkit' boosted by grant award
Indian Country Today, NY - Nov 20, 2007
The National Indian Child Welfare Association has been awarded $24625 from the American Legion Child Welfare Foundation to support the development and ...
DCF takes action after reviewing case of missing 2-year-old girl
Ocala.com, FL - Nov 20, 2007
All the children were placed in the care of Wisconsin 's child welfare agency. DCF Assistant Secretary George Sheldon said Hardy was selected because he has ...
Human Services has protocol for child welfare calls
Post-Bulletin, MN - Nov 19, 2007
By Karen Colbenson Every day, the telephone at human services rings with calls from people concerned about the welfare of a child, but who decides when a ...
State's foster system hurting
Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - Nov 17, 2007
By Natalie Chandler Mississippi's child welfare agency characterized its caseworker load three years ago as "beyond danger" in a number of regions, ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (11/9/2007- 11/16/2007)
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Police seek clues from public in abandoned-baby case
North County Times, CA – Nov 16, 2007
Wednesday's incident was the second abandoned-baby death in San Diego County in roughly five years, said Cathi Palatella of Child Welfare Services. ...
Alllison to take a new job; County embroiled in dispute over Red ...
Bemidji Pioneer, MN - Nov 16, 2007
... Lake provide invoices and proof of their payments to the state’s Indian Child Welfare Program as well as the county showing it is paying those costs. ...
Database to help protect foster kids
Lebanon Western Star, OH - Nov 16, 2007
A vital brick was laid Thursday, when officials announced that Butler County Children Services will be the first child welfare agency in the state with ...
Unanimous State Support for Change in Child Welfare
KCPW , UT - Nov 15, 2007
That's the goal of a measure unanimously supported by several legislative committees, the state division of child welfare and even the conservative Utah ...
Child welfare service shows progress
NorthJersey.com, NJ - Nov 15, 2007
By ADRIENNE LU A new report on the state's child welfare system found mostly encouraging news, but also raises some troubling questions about how well ...
Governor weighs in on controversial foster care case
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Nov 14, 2007
Kulongoski said he understands two different panels of state child welfare officials have weighed in on the matter and determined that the child should be ...
In Mississippi: A Sweeping Legal Victory for Kids
Connect For Kids, DC - Nov 14, 2007
13, 2007—Mississippi plans a serious overhaul of its child welfare system to do more to protect the approximately 3400 abused and neglected children in its ...
DCF foster-care crisis team at work in Pinellas
St. Petersburg Times, FL - Nov 13, 2007
After seeing the turmoil affecting the child welfare system after the 1998 death of a girl named Kayla mckean, he said, "you start thinking how can I become ...
Federal grant helps new ISU social work grads find work in Indiana
Terre Haute Tribune Star, IN - Nov 13, 2007
Through the Title IV-E Grant for Child Welfare Training, bachelor of social work students receive full tuition; a $2000 stipend; and are guaranteed a job ...
Racial Bias Seen in Foster Care
The Associated Press - Nov 13, 2007
The report said "bias or cultural misunderstandings and distrust between child welfare decision makers and the families they serve" was one of several ...
Proposed Nevada child welfare cuts criticized
Education Week News, MD - Nov 13, 2007
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid is digging in: Nevada can't have it both ways when it comes to child welfare. ...
Report urges open access to records for adult adoptees
Chicago Tribune, United States - Nov 12, 2007
By Bonnie Miller Rubin | Tribune staff reporter November 12, 2007 Few issues are more heatedly debated in child-welfare circles than whether adopted ...
More of Hawaii's foster children being adopted
Honolulu Advertiser, HI - Nov 12, 2007
Instead, foster children cycled through the child welfare system, moving from one foster home to the next until they turned 18, she said. ...
Iowa Supreme Court chief justice works to reform child welfare
WHO-TV , IA - Nov 11, 2007
Ternus, who has made child welfare reform a priority, says more than 5000 Iowa children live in foster care. About 100 of the most-vulnerable children are ...
Hawaiian bracelets to be given to foster care girls
Honolulu Advertiser, HI - Nov 10, 2007
Last year, the jewelry story partnered with Kokua `Ohana to donate and distribute 25 bracelets to girls in the State's child welfare system. ...
Report: Kids need help on many fronts
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Nov 10, 2007
The racial imbalance affects the child welfare system as well. African-American children are more likely than white children to be removed from homes ...
Answers About New York Foster Care, Part 3
New York Times, United States - Nov 9, 2007
... American or Latino families to doctors, nurses, social workers, and others who are under the law required to report suspected child abuse and neglect. ...
Answers About New York Foster Care, Part 2
New York Times, United States - Nov 8, 2007
New York establishes a higher standard of credentialing for child welfare workers than almost all other states. Children’s Services’ employment policies ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (11/2/2007- 11/9/2007)
Child Welfare News:
Senate Committee Calls for More Social Workers
Providence Eyewitness News, RI – Nov 9, 2007
PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) -- The state's child welfare agency needs to hire more social workers to keep up with a growing number of cases, according to a Senate ...
Study: Child welfare in state still lacking
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Nov 9, 2007
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky continued to lag behind most states in the health and welfare of its children, according to the 2007 Kentucky Kids Count to be ...
Group steps in to aid in review of at-risk-youth programs
Rocky Mountain News, CO - Nov 9, 2007
By Betsy Lehndorff, Rocky Mountain News One of the nation's oldest child-welfare organizations will help review how the Denver Department of Human Services ...
Settlement reached in Miss. child welfare suit
Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - Nov 8, 2007
Attorneys representing 3500 abused and neglected children in Mississippi ’s child welfare system have reached a preliminary settlement to resolve a federal ...
After death of Nixzmary Brown, reports up at abuse hotline
New York Daily News, NY - Nov 7, 2007
That's about a 14% jump over statistics gathered in 2005, before the gaps in the child welfare system were dramatically illustrated by the disturbing death ...
Foster kid in Florida DCF position may have some influence
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - Nov 7, 2007
It typically takes the well-publicized death of a foster child or a major defeat in court before state government moves to reform parts of a child welfare ...
2 measures target caseworkers
Deseret News, UT - Nov 5, 2007
By James Thalman Two bills targeting child abuse caseworkers who make false claims were approved Monday by the Legislature's chief child welfare oversight ...
The quiet fight to improve kids' lives
Colorado Springs Gazette, CO - Nov 5, 2007
Only when high-profile cases of foster-care abuse or failures in the child-welfare system are exposed does the public get a glimpse inside. ...
For foster-care kids, adoption remains elusive
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Nov 3, 2007
The number of children growing up in foster care never to find a permanent home has become an increasing concern among child-welfare workers and civic ...
Mass. House Approves Bill To Strengthen Child Protection Laws
WCSH-TV , ME - Nov 2, 2007
It also creates a new cabinet secretary dedicated solely to child welfare and seeks to address racial disparities in the child welfare system. ...
DES-requested review faults CPS in deaths of Tucson children
Arizona Daily Star, AZ - Nov 2, 2007
While it is critical of how the Payne and Williams cases were handled, it also offers a number of recommendations to improve child-welfare investigations. ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (10/26/2007- 11/2/2007)
Child Welfare News:
Fixing child welfare a tough job
The News-Press, FL - Nov 2, 2007
The task force, appointed in July by Department of Children and Families Secretary Bob Butterworth to examine gaps in the child welfare system, ...
New Tools Needed To Fight Methamphetamine, Official Says
Springdale Morning News, AR - Nov 2, 2007
The state must "marry child welfare and substance abuse" in order to bring a better quality to women's programs, she told the audience. ...
Kent County: Model for adoption services
WZZM , MI - Nov 2, 2007
But, the DHS budget does include some more money for both public and private child welfare workers as well as a simplified cost system for private foster ...
Analysis faults CPS approach in deaths
Arizona Republic, AZ - Nov 1, 2007
State child-welfare workers were so singularly focused on allegations of neglect and abuse against a Tucson mother that they did only a cursory evaluation ...
Cherokee Nation’s child welfare receives high marks
Muskogee Daily Phoenix, OK - Nov 1, 2007
TAHLEQUAH, OK —An audit of the Cherokee Nation’s Indian Child Welfare program recently achieved high marks from federal and state child welfare officials. ...
Rhode Island lawmakers repeal law imprisoning teens
Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - Oct 31, 2007
The rejected bill also included stronger language discouraging Family Court judges and the state's child welfare agency from sending all but the most ...
County to reimburse Red Lake for child protection costs
Bemidji Pioneer, MN - Oct 30, 2007
Skoe would seek the Red Lake Nation’s inclusion in an existing program, Minnesota Indian Child Welfare Initiative, with the Leech Lake and White Earth bands ...
Lawmakers Propose Privatizing Foster Care
WLNS , MI - Oct 27, 2007
Cuts could impact the state's child welfare system. That has lawmakers looking at privatizing the foster care system. It's supposed to be a safe place for ...
Baby's death might be homicide
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), WI - Oct 27, 2007
By MARY ZAHN The death of a 5-month-old boy left unsupervised with his mentally ill mother is being investigated as a homicide, police said Saturday. ...
Three agencies join forces to address disparity in numbers of ...
SitNews, AK - Oct 26, 2007
James LaBelle Jr., Child Welfare Liaison for Cook Inlet Tribal Council, states the unit will fill an important gap in current services, by providing ...
Social Work Study Examines National Foster Care Payment Rates
UMB News, MD - Oct 26, 2007
... federal policy should require states to submit the methodology they use for setting foster care rates when they submit their annual child welfare plan. ...
· New law targets false reporting of child welfare workers
Daytona Beach News-Journal , FL - Oct 26, 2007
Those are two of several cases in recent years where state officials found child welfare workers falsified records. But rarely in such cases locally or ...
National Child Welfare News Clippings (10/19/2007- 10/26/2007)
Child Welfare News:
· New law targets false reporting of child welfare workers
Daytona Beach News-Journal , FL - Oct 26, 2007
Those are two of several cases in recent years where state officials found child welfare workers falsified records. But rarely in such cases locally or ...
Group revises ballot item to ban adoption, foster parenting by gays
Arkansas News, AR - Oct 25, 2007
We felt that if they thought that it needed to be stated that it's about child welfare, then we were perfectly fine to do that, because that's what it's ...
County plans strategy on child placement costs
Bemidji Pioneer, MN - Oct 24, 2007
The resolution notes that the state Department of Human Services and American Indian tribal leaders signed a new agreement on Indian child welfare last ...
Unknowns of adoption
St. Petersburg Times, FL - Oct 24, 2007
"A lot of parents don't necessarily want to dissolve their rights," said Loryn Smith, a social worker with Camelot Community Care, a nonprofit child welfare ...
Task force proposes child welfare improvements
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Oct 23, 2007
By Deborah Yetter A task force seeking ways to improve the child welfare system identified Tuesday several proposals to better serve families and children ...