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Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly

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

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Grandfamilies State Law and Policy Resource Center

Grandfamilies

NEW JUDICIAL RESOURCE - Judicial Guide to Implementing Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008

Generations United 16th International Conference: Rethinking and Revitalizing Intergenerational Connections (July 26-29)

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The Grandfamilies State Law and Policy Resource Center is a collaboration between Casey Family Programs, the American Bar Association’s Center on Children and the Law and Generations United.

Ex-caseworker pleads guilty in neglect case

Ex-caseworker pleads guilty in neglect case - Times Union

SCHENECTADY -- A former caseworker with the county has pleaded guilty to a felony in a child-neglect case where an infant boy with a digestive disorder nearly died last year, according to the prosecutor who handled the case.

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The system sucks are making cartoons now

The system sucks are making cartoons now

Another Tale of Our Anti-Parent DCFS Establishment

Another Tale of Our Anti-Parent DCFS Establishment : Stop The ACLU: "It is a sad truth that from coast to coast our departments of children and family service (DCFS) agencies are in disarray. All too often they ill serve the children they are supposed to be helping and they almost always step on the rights of parents without much bothering to give a good reading of the situation before action is taken. The travails of 13-year-old Chloe Faulkner is another such story. Taken from her parents, isolated in a world of faceless bureaucrats, used as a cash cow for state aide, abused, repeatedly raped, and eventually impregnated without her loving parents being given a chance to be heard, this tale is another DCFS/State intervention horror story."

Adopted girl aids murder of foster mother

Adopted girl aids murder of foster mother | Provincial

Boy friend, an army deserter arrested for the killing

An army deserter and a young woman were arrested by the Welimada police in connection with the killing of a 78- year- old woman of Bogahakumbura in Welimada. She had been hacked to death and her jewellery taken away. The victim, K A Karunawathie was a retired principal of a government school in Welimada living alone in her house. Her children were married and living separately.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Foster care in Los Angeles: NOW he tells us: The frustrating, mundane causes of DCFS failure

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog: Foster care in Los Angeles: NOW he tells us: The frustrating, mundane causes of DCFS failure

fter years of trying to whip Southern California into a frenzy about some kind of Vast Family Preservation Conspiracy, after a failed effort to scapegoat a waiver from federal funding restrictions and, of course, after doing enormous harm to children by setting off a foster-care panic, Los Angeles Times reporter Garrett Therolf finally noticed: According to a Therolf story published on July 18 about an investigation commissioned by the county Board of Supervisors, the real reasons children “known to the system” sometimes die typically are things like buying the wrong computers so workers can’t get the information they need, or not being able to get the best people to work the toughest jobs.

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Study Finds New Guidelines Help Judges Better Serve Abused and Neglected Children...

Study Finds New Guidelines Help Judges Better Serve Abused and Neglected Children... -- RENO, Nev., July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

More children are able to return home safely or live with extended family
RENO, Nev., July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Children who are removed from their parents for abuse or neglect allegations experience better outcomes when judges follow a set of decision-making guidelines during the initial removal hearing, according to a study released today by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ). Development of a benchcard containing the guidelines grew out of a national NCJFCJ initiative, Courts Catalyzing Change: Achieving Equity and Fairness in Foster Care (CCC). In partnership with Casey Family Programs and the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, NCJFCJ member judges throughout the country are working to reduce the overrepresentation of children of color in the foster care system along with the disparate outcomes they and their families experience.

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