Which State Child Welfare Systems Are Right for Kids?

Right for Kids Ranking-Which State Child Welfare Systems Are Right for Kids? 

Definitely NOT New Hampshire!

Note: For more specific statistics on NH's Failed Assessment, click on http://www.dhhs.nh.gov/dcyf/documents/childfamilyservicesreport112010.pdf, also on the right side of my blog.

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Each state’s child welfare system typically operates out of the public eye unless a tragedy, often the death a
child, pulls the system from the shadows to the front page. It should not be this way. Protecting children from
abuse and neglect is a fundamental responsibility of a civil society.
Yet, the average American, and even most policymakers and members of the media, has little understanding of how
their state’s child welfare system performs. The annual RIGHT FOR KIDS RANKING provides the hard facts about how
well states are serving vulnerable kids. The RIGHT FOR KIDS RANKING and the companion RightForKids.org Web site
answers basic questions like:
• Which states are doing the best job overall in serving children who are abused and neglected?
And more focused questions like:
• Which states are best serving teenagers in foster care by helping them move on to permanency and stability?
The 2012 RIGHT FOR KIDS RANKING shows which states are best and worst at this tough but critical job, using a
methodology that scores all states in 11 key outcome areas and 41 different data measures. This comprehensive
list is the first of its kind.
The five major findings from this year’s RIGHT FOR KIDS RANKING are:
1. Only 11 states have a 24-hour rapid response to investigate claims of abuse or neglect.
2. Only 12 states visit the vast majority of foster kids monthly.
3. Only 9 states quickly and safely return foster children home to their biological families when possible.
4. Only 9 states ensure short and stable stays in foster care as general practice.
5. Only 11 states help find forever families ASAP for a large share of foster children.
Americans, most importantly abused and neglected kids, pay a significant price as a result of some states doing
a much worse job than others. What if all states performed at the level of the Top 10 Right for Kids States? If that
happened:
1. There would be 72,000 fewer kids in foster care (17% fewer).
2. There would be almost 19,000 more adoptions from foster care each year (36% more).
Helping kids is not just good social policy. It is good economic policy as well. Child abuse and neglect costs
more than $100 billion every year in direct ($33 billion) and indirect ($71 billion) costs.
This annual ranking is a reality check on how well each state is serving the most vulnerable children, and
celebrates top performing states overall and in specific outcome areas. These bright spots can lead by example,
and highlight successful public policies, funding structures, and leadership to best serve kids. Understanding why
a state ranks where it does is the first step toward positive, pro-active reforms. Learn more about how your state
performs by reading this report and state specific profiles at RightForKids.org

Click on the above link to see how each state ranks.

Top UK Doctor Admits “Death Panels” Kill 130,000 Elderly Patients a Year

Top UK Doctor Admits “Death Panels” Kill 130,000 Elderly Patients a Year | Red County:

Opponents of government-run healthcare services were ridiculed by the Left and the mainstream media when they argued that Obamacare and single-payer healthcare systems would create “death panels” that would determine whether or not patients would receive life-saving care.


Professor Patrick Pullicino, a consultant neurologist and Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Kent, told the Royal Society of Medicine in London Monday that the country’s National Health Service kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year.


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New Hampshire Money Laundering or simply Fraud

DMVC Productions = Results: New Hampshire Money Laundering or simply Fraud:

Follow the money? It is some what of a challenge and difficult in NH, the path below is full of various layers it's your call... like Ms. Edmonds once said "believe me; they will do everything to cover this up." 

It starts here: 
Under NH RSA 169-C:39-i


[RSA 169-C:39-i repealed by 2010, 195:3, effective on the date that the New Hampshire Children's Trust certifies to the secretary of state, the state treasurer, and the director of the office of legislative services that the trust has been formed as a private New Hampshire voluntary corporation and has been qualified by the Internal Revenue Service as a section 501(c)(3) entity.] (means non-profit)169-C:39-i Successor to or Replacement of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. – 
References in this subdivision to the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation shall include any successor to such foundation. The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation may resign from the obligations imposed on it under this subdivision by paying over all funds held by it under this subdivision to the state treasurer, together with an accounting. Upon such payment, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation shall be relieved of all further obligations with respect to the trust fund. 
Source. 1987, 372:6. 1992, 24:1. 1997, 254:8, eff. Aug. 18, 1997.
Please click on the above link for more interesting and truthful facts 

Foster parents want case dismissed

Foster parents want case dismissed - Coeur d'Alene Press: Local News:


Post Falls couple facing charges after death of child


COEUR d'ALENE - Attorneys for the Post Falls foster parents indicted in Kootenai County for allegedly injuring two children in their care, including one who died, will argue next month the case should be dismissed.


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Lancashire care system scandal exposed

Lancashire care system scandal exposed - Local - Blackpool Gazette:

A TOP judge has exposed a shocking scandal in the care system which saw two baby boys stripped of their family ties and shunted around a catalogue of foster parents, suffering permanent psychological damage in the process.


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Statistics suggest bleak futures for children who grow up in foster care

Statistics suggest bleak futures for children who grow up in foster care | Amarillo Globe-News:

Statistics show the future bodes poorly for many of the children in the foster care system, a top official with Arrow Child and Family Ministries said. Arrow, an international child-placement agency, claims the statistics describe a “national foster care crisis.”
As of April, there were 349 children from Randall and Potter counties in foster care.

According to national statistics provided by Arrow, 40 to 50 percent of those children will never complete high school. Sixty-six percent of them will be homeless, go to jail or die within one year of leaving the foster care system at 18.

Arrow also said 80 percent of the prison population once was in foster care, and that girls in foster care are 600 percent more likely than the general population to become pregnant before the age of 21.

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Foster Care Abuse Claims

Foster Care Abuse Claims:

The report finds too many abused children are being abused again in state custody. Even DCF says it can do better.

The state audit shows nine out of every 100 abused kids get abused again when they're put in foster care. The report says the numbers of so-called "re-abuse cases" exceed the state's own goal of no more than seven percent, and are well above the national standard of six percent.

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