Foster care for American Indian children too frequent in Utah

Foster care for American Indian children too frequent in Utah | ScrippsNews:

SALT LAKE CITY - More than 33 years after Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act, American Indian children in Utah are still being removed from their homes and placed in foster care far too often -- a troubling statistic that is the focus of the state's tribes and government officials.

GAO Looks Into ACF’s Improper Foster Care Payment Methodology

GAO Looks Into ACF’s Improper Foster Care Payment Methodology | The Children's Monitor:

A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report reviews the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) process for calculating a “national improper payment estimate” for the IV-E Foster Care program that they are responsible for administering and overseeing. GAO was asked to determine the extent to which (1) ACF’s estimation methodology generated a reasonably accurate and complete estimate of improper payments across the Foster Care program and (2) ACF’s corrective actions reduced improper Foster Care program payments. To do so, GAO reviewed the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) fiscal year 2010 improper payments estimation procedures, conducted site visits, and met with ACF officials.

Stolen Children For Sale Through the Heart Gallery

Freddie Mac Foundation's Heart Gallery -- Featuring Local Foster Children in Need of Adoption -- Shown at Frederick's Hood College - MarketWatch:

FREDERICK, Md., March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- WHAT:

The Freddie Mac Foundation Heart Gallery featuring photos of children in foster care in need of adoption will be on display at Hood College in Frederick, MD: March 23 through April 13. More than 70 area children have found adoptive homes through the Heart Gallery. 

Police investigating death of handicapped foster child in NYC

Police investigating death of handicapped foster child in NYC | NJ.com:

New York-Police are investigating the bathtub death of a severely handicapped child in the New York City home of her foster parents.

Decades in prison for former foster parent convicted of sex crimes | steen, boy, foster

Decades in prison for former foster parent convicted of sex crimes | steen, boy, foster - Gaston Gazette:

A former foster parent was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting a boy he fostered on and off for four years.

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Texas Digest: Boy missing 8 years to stay in foster care

Texas Digest: Boy missing 8 years to stay in foster care:

A Houston boy, who was found after disappearing eight years ago as an infant, will remain in foster care while therapists determine when he can be reunited with his parents, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Nurturing children by nurturing their families

Nurturing children by nurturing their families | The Connecticut Mirror:

New Haven -- When Imari Troche’s son Nathan was born three years ago, she knew how to change his diaper and feed him. But much beyond that was a struggle.

Shortly after Nathan’s birth, Marta Santana began visiting Troche and Nathan in their home nearly every week. Those visits have changed everything in the young mother’s life.