Guidance on Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008

AFRA Front Page News: Guidance on Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008

Program Instruction
To: State, Tribal and Territorial Agencies Administering or Supervising the Administration of Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations and Tribal Consortia (Tribes)

Subject: Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-351) Comprehensive Guidance, Titles IV-B and IV-E Plan Requirements, Title IV-E Plan Amendment – Definition of "Child", Extension of Title IV-E Assistance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law (P.L.) 111-148)

Legal and Related References: Titles IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security Act (the Act); P.L. 110-351; P.L. 111-148

Purpose: The purpose of this Program Instruction (PI) is to provide title IV-E agencies comprehensive information on the provisions of titles IV-B and IV-E as a result of the amendments made by the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, P.L. 110-351. In addition to providing new guidance on the option for a title IV-E agency to extend assistance for the foster care maintenance, adoption assistance, and/or kinship guardianship programs to an eligible youth age 18 and older up to age 21, this instruction provides additional guidance on the other provisions of P.L. 110-351 and the flexibilities afforded to a title IV-E agency in complying with the law. We are also providing instruction on changes to the titles IV-B/IV-E plan requirements as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148).

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Protest at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges 74th Annual Conference

Boy in Foster care wrecks stolen van, dies in E. Ill. - Lincoln, IL - Lincoln Courier

Boy wrecks stolen van, dies in E. Ill. - Lincoln, IL - Lincoln Courier

SPRINGFIELD —
A 12-year-old eastern Illinois boy who died while driving a stolen minivan was a foster child who escaped from a hospital emergency room after recently running away from the home he’d recently been assigned to, officials said.

Fathers Claim NH Courts Biased Against Them - New Hampshire News Story

Fathers Claim NH Courts Biased Against Them - New Hampshire News Story - WMUR New Hampshire

CONCORD, N.H. -- It has been an allegation about the family court system for years -- that fathers don't get the same treatment as mothers when it comes to custody cases. But whether that's true depends on who you ask.

Note: I and so many other's waited close to a month for this segment of WMUR to air. Had the real story with interviews been shown, without the threats of WMUR being sued, everyone would have seen just how bias the NH court's really are.

The segment aired by WMUR tried to put the blame on father's.
Father's and mother's alike are getting the shaft, while the court's sit by and make a killing off a families pain, playing one parent against the other.
In many cases the court's are bias against father's. In many cases they're also bias against mother's. Even grandparent's. It seem's to me, whichever parent run's to the court first with tales of abuse, wind's up with custody of the children, whether the report is true or false.
I know of one father who abused his wife after she found out he was cheating on her, after finding another woman's undergarment's under her bed. She confronted him and he punched her in the face, with witnesses watching. The mother was arrested and charged with domestic violence. The father has custody of their child and has never been held in contempt for refusing to let the mother see her child.
Another mother, beaten by her admittedly abusive husband, the husband wind's up with custody after filing a false report with DCYF. I know many other mother's alienated by both DCYF and our illustrous NH judicial system, with the father's never even given the right of custody to their children.
I know of three father's whose right's were never terminated in Nashua, after DCYF took their children from the mother's. Two of the mother's were falsely accused by DCYF and the NH court's, which was proven. The father's of all three of these children were never contacted, while two of the Probate Court Judges both lied in their decision's. All three children have been illegally adopted, after fictitious mens right's were terminated. DCYF and the court's were well aware they weren't the children's father's. But DCYF and the court's figured it was no big deal.
So yes, many of the men in NH are getting the shaft in NH and many women are also. Many of the custody order's made by the NH court's are very unfair.
The entire justice system in NH is nothing but a greedy money making machine. Money made off the pain and suffering of families.
This News segment was nothing worth waiting to see. It was a total flop, full of bias. The NH judicial system's failure will one day be out in the open. With or without the help of WMUR.

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Transcript | Failure To Protect:The Caseworker Files

Transcript | Failure To Protect | FRONTLINE | PBS



Failure to Protect:
The Caseworker Files

Produced by
Barak Goodman
Rachel Dretzin
Muriel Soenens

Written by
Barak Goodman


ANNOUNCER: Last week on FRONTLINE, the story of the death of a little girl while in the custody of the state of Maine.

NEWSCASTER: Five-year old Logan was killed after her foster mother allegedly tied her to a high chair and put duct tape over her nose and mouth.

ANNOUNCER: The death of Logan Marr focused outrage on a normally secretive child protective system.

MAN AT HEARING: Who holds these people accountable? The answer is nobody.

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Forced adoptions may spark class action

Forced adoptions may spark class action - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A Newcastle solicitor is investigating the possibility of a class action on behalf of several Hunter Valley women who say their babies were adopted against their will.

False Allegations of Child Abuse

False Allegations of Child Abuse

Sometimes allegations of abuse are true. When they are not, disproving false allegations of child abuse is one of the most difficult issues to overcome. Disproving becomes the method of how to overcome false child abuse allegations. This is why it is critical to act fast and have a strategy. Having an attorney represent and advise you during this process is generally recommended.
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