Caring for children-Relatives need help from state

Caring for children | The Salt Lake Tribune:
Relatives need help from state
It’s often hard for grandparents to restrain themselves from giving advice or even intervening in their children’s family affairs. But most manage to keep quiet, and that’s proper. However, when their grandchildren are victims of neglect or abuse, grandparents — or aunts, uncles or other relatives — should be first on the state’s list of potential foster parents because they already care.


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Crackdown on family court experts

Crackdown on family court experts | Education In US:

Life-changing decisions about families are made in the courts

Fewer decisions about the care of children will be made on the advice of poorly qualified experts in the family courts under government plans. Minimum standards will be introduced later this year to weed out incompetent psychologists and other experts, the justice department said.

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Conference program changes how DHS reunifies families

Conference program changes how DHS reunifies families | Tulsa World:


For decades, the prevailing wisdom in child welfare was to keep the foster and biological families apart and keep information close to the vest. 

Extended family members - such as grandparents, aunts or cousins - were locked out from knowing what happened, where the children were living or how they could help the parents regain custody.

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Court rules DHS must provide foster parent information to media

Court rules DHS must provide foster parent information to media | Tulsa World:


Document: Read the rulings by the appeals court in the lawsuit against DHS by the Tulsa World and KOKI: Affirmation of judgement as modified. / Appeal about attorney fees.

An appeals court has upheld a Tulsa district judge's ruling that the Department of Human Services must provide information on foster parents to the Tulsa World and television station KOKI-23.

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Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights

Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights:

by Citizens Commission on Human Rights

All human rights organizations set forth codes by which they align their purposes and activities. The Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights articulates the guiding principles of CCHR and the standards against which human rights violations by psychiatry are relentlessly investigated and exposed.

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Texas biggest winner in federal adoption bonuses

Texas biggest winner in federal adoption bonuses | MedBlog | a Chron.com blog:

Texas won more money than any other state for increasing its number of adoptions in 2009.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded $39 million to 38 states and Puerto Rico today for increasing the number of children adopted from foster care.

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Grandparent's Rights Granted In Georgia

HB 1198 2011-2012 Regular Session:

2011-2012 Regular Session - HB 1198 Parent and child; grandparent visitation rights; modify provisions Read More: