Bad Medicine: Child Protective Services is destroying lives and families:
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
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Foster care in America: HHS guidelines undermine child welfare waivers
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog: Foster care in America: HHS guidelines undermine child welfare waivers:
The best chance in decades to get serious about reducing the number of children torn from their families each year is being undermined by the agency that is supposed to make it work.
● The best way to improve the “well-being” of children at risk of foster care is to make sure they are never placed in foster care.
The best chance in decades to get serious about reducing the number of children torn from their families each year is being undermined by the agency that is supposed to make it work.
Last September, Congress restored the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services to issue “waivers” from rules that restrict a huge proportion of federal child welfare aid to funding foster care and only foster care.
Under current law, the foster care money is an open-ended entitlement. For every “eligible” child placed in foster care – and that’s nearly half of all foster children – the federal government picks up a large share of the cost. This creates a horrendous incentive: Though foster care costs more than better alternatives in total dollars, there are times when it might cost a state or county less to use foster care because the federal government picks up so much of the tab.
● The best way to improve the “well-being” of children at risk of foster care is to make sure they are never placed in foster care.
● And the best way to improve the “well-being” of foster children is to get them the hell out of foster care.
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Sask. foster care suit launched
Sask. foster care suit launched:
Suggesting the Saskatchewan government failed in its legal responsibilities toward children abused in foster care, a Regina law firm has filed a unique proposed classaction lawsuit.
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Suggesting the Saskatchewan government failed in its legal responsibilities toward children abused in foster care, a Regina law firm has filed a unique proposed classaction lawsuit.
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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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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
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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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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Saturday, May 26, 2012
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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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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