Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Friday, December 3, 2010
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog: Covering foster care at the LA Times: The “readers’ representative” sets the fairness bar very low
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog: Covering foster care at the LA Times: The “readers’ representative” sets the fairness bar very low: " According to the Organization of News Ombudsmen (ONO), back when it was considered one of America’s great regional dailies, the Louisville Courier Journal was the first to name an ombudsman – someone to respond to reader complaints about the newspaper, both privately to the staff and by writing a column assessing how well the newspaper was doing its job. "
Report blasts foster care reform - Omaha.com
Report blasts foster care reform - Omaha.com
LINCOLN — Shifting child welfare duties from state workers to private contractors has not improved the lives of Nebraska's foster children, a new report shows.
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The shift made some conditions worse, produced no change in others and created several new concerns, according to the state Foster Care Review Board.
LINCOLN — Shifting child welfare duties from state workers to private contractors has not improved the lives of Nebraska's foster children, a new report shows.
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The shift made some conditions worse, produced no change in others and created several new concerns, according to the state Foster Care Review Board.
About Reactive Attachment Disorder
About Reactive Attachment Disorder: "Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a complex term for a complex psychiatric illness. Also called “attachment disorder” and considered by some a form of post-traumatic stress disorder, children with RAD struggle to forge emotional attachments to others, often because of serious disruptions in their early relationships.
Neglect, physical or emotional abuse, placement outside the home in foster care or an orphanage, and multiple changes in caregiver are frequent causes of reactive attachment disorder. Many adopted and foster children have painful histories. Approximately 2 percent of the population is adopted, and between 50 percent and 80 percent of these children display symptoms of attachment disorder."
Neglect, physical or emotional abuse, placement outside the home in foster care or an orphanage, and multiple changes in caregiver are frequent causes of reactive attachment disorder. Many adopted and foster children have painful histories. Approximately 2 percent of the population is adopted, and between 50 percent and 80 percent of these children display symptoms of attachment disorder."
Jonathan Emord -- Judicial Temperament
Jonathan Emord -- Judicial Temperament
JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT
By Attorney Jonathan Emord
Author of "The Rise of Tyranny" and,
"Global Censorship of Health Information"
November 29, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
When a nominee for the federal bench testifies before the Senate, he or she is evaluated based on such things as “judicial temperament” and “fitness.” The term “judicial temperament” has no certain meaning and, so, each Senator approaches the evaluation with a different set of factors in mind. To restore liberty to the heart of the Constitution, United States Senators must demand that nominees have a judicial temperament that favors restoration of the non-delegation and separation of powers doctrines to the Constitution. Exiled since the 1930s, those doctrines must be resuscitated if we are to have any hope of restraining and culling back the abuses of the regulatory state. Liberty depends on judges who view with skepticism and are willing to strike down regulations that exceed statutory and constitutional law.
JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT
By Attorney Jonathan Emord
Author of "The Rise of Tyranny" and,
"Global Censorship of Health Information"
November 29, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
When a nominee for the federal bench testifies before the Senate, he or she is evaluated based on such things as “judicial temperament” and “fitness.” The term “judicial temperament” has no certain meaning and, so, each Senator approaches the evaluation with a different set of factors in mind. To restore liberty to the heart of the Constitution, United States Senators must demand that nominees have a judicial temperament that favors restoration of the non-delegation and separation of powers doctrines to the Constitution. Exiled since the 1930s, those doctrines must be resuscitated if we are to have any hope of restraining and culling back the abuses of the regulatory state. Liberty depends on judges who view with skepticism and are willing to strike down regulations that exceed statutory and constitutional law.
Children's Bureau Express
Children's Bureau Express
New PSAs Spotlight Adoption of Siblings
The Ad Council, in cooperation with the Children's Bureau and AdoptUsKids, recently unveiled its newest media campaign to raise awareness of adoption from foster care. These new public service announcements (PSAs) in the form of television commercials, print ads, and radio spots use gentle humor to promote the adoption of one of the most difficult groups to place—brothers and sisters.
Research increasingly points to the importance of the connection that siblings share, a connection that is even more crucial to children in foster care, whose other family connections may be lost or tenuous at best. Siblings offer a lifelong connection to family, and child welfare best practice mandates that siblings be placed together in both foster care and adoptive homes, under most circumstances. The barrier to this best practice is the lack of adoptive families who are able or willing to take a sibling group.
The new PSAs are designed to let the public know about the need for families for brothers and sisters. Building on the successful theme of "You don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent," the campaign adds the tagline, "There are thousands of siblings in foster care who'll take you as you are." Commercials show parents struggling to make experiences, such as camping, "perfect" for their children, but when the perfect experience is rained out or otherwise falls flat, the children still love it. The ads drive home the message that children—brothers and sisters—need parents who care about them.
Find the PSAs on the Ad Council website:
www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=17
New PSAs Spotlight Adoption of Siblings
The Ad Council, in cooperation with the Children's Bureau and AdoptUsKids, recently unveiled its newest media campaign to raise awareness of adoption from foster care. These new public service announcements (PSAs) in the form of television commercials, print ads, and radio spots use gentle humor to promote the adoption of one of the most difficult groups to place—brothers and sisters.
Research increasingly points to the importance of the connection that siblings share, a connection that is even more crucial to children in foster care, whose other family connections may be lost or tenuous at best. Siblings offer a lifelong connection to family, and child welfare best practice mandates that siblings be placed together in both foster care and adoptive homes, under most circumstances. The barrier to this best practice is the lack of adoptive families who are able or willing to take a sibling group.
The new PSAs are designed to let the public know about the need for families for brothers and sisters. Building on the successful theme of "You don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent," the campaign adds the tagline, "There are thousands of siblings in foster care who'll take you as you are." Commercials show parents struggling to make experiences, such as camping, "perfect" for their children, but when the perfect experience is rained out or otherwise falls flat, the children still love it. The ads drive home the message that children—brothers and sisters—need parents who care about them.
Find the PSAs on the Ad Council website:
www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=17
Newsvine - The Right To Do Wrong
Newsvine - The Right To Do Wrong: "A CPS Caseworker in Nebraska may have overstepped her grounds when she took a woman's life in her own hands. Lisa Hannah had the influence necessary to force anti-psychotic medication on a single woman fighting for the return of her children after making a claim that her children were being mistreated by another. Little did the courts know, the caseworker may have been in a power hungry spiral. Accused of fabricating a mental health scenario, had she actually been the cause of the woman's issues?"
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