Utah wants to help more kids at home and reduce foster care placements

Utah wants to help more kids at home and reduce foster care placements | Deseret News:

SALT LAKE CITY — Fewer Utah children would be placed in foster homes under an ongoing effort to strengthen in-home services provided by the Division of Child and Family Services, a sought-after change in the state's care of children.

Methadone and Pregnancy

Methadone and Pregnancy: Methadone and Pregnancy:

“Is methadone safe for my baby?” is usually the first question we hear from women.

Pregnant women have been treated with methadone for more than 25 years and neither methadone or other opiates have not been shown to directly cause birth defects. However, your baby may experience some side effects from methadone. The most common are smaller-than-normal head size, low birth weight, and withdrawal symptoms. As babies born dependent on methadone grow, they usually will fall in the normal range for size and development.

Judicial Misconduct - How to report it

DMVC Productions = Results: Judicial Misconduct - How to report it:

The Mission Statement of the New Hampshire Court System
page 2 http://www.courts.state.nh.us/press/2009/2007-2008-biennial-report.pdfTo preserve the rule of law and protect the rights and liberties guaranteed by the United States and New Hampshire Constitutions, the courts will provide accessible, prompt, and efficient forums for the fair and independent administration of justice, with respect for the dignity of all we serve.

With the resurrection of the NH Redress of Grievance of Committee, due to the number of people complaining to legislators that the NH court's do not provided accessible, prompt, and efficient forums in the following areas:

  1. being closed several days a week; alledgedly due to budget constraints;
  2. by not hearing family contempt cases within 30 days as required by law under
      NH RSA 461-A:4-a Judicial Enforcement of Parenting Plan;
  3. by not providing aid to indigent parents for GAL fees and/or for requiring
      indigent parents further into debt with excessive unsupported GAL fees;
  4. continuously pushing cases out and not holding parties to the orders that they
      make; thereby teaching it's society that the courts do not administer justice,
      they simply get paid to wear a black robe;


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Time to draw back the curtain on child welfare system

Time to draw back the curtain on child welfare system - The Washington Post:

It's Time to Open ALL Family Court's!

If the murder had happened in Los Angeles, we might know whether the accused 12-year-old boy had a history of violence. If it was in Michigan, we might find out if the 2-year-old he allegedly beat to death was repeatedly abused.If the foster parents lived in Illinois, we might be able to sit in court and hear whether the family realized that their 12-year-old son was a danger to the foster child they were supposed to shelter, protect and nurture.

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Maryland starts to talk about a toddler’s death

Maryland starts to talk about a toddler’s death - The Washington Post:


ANIYAH BATCHELOR normally would have been at day care while her foster parents were at work. But the extreme heat had closed the child-care facility and the Prince George’s family’s 15-year-old was babysitting when 2-year-old Aniyah was beaten to deathlast Tuesday, allegedly by a 12-year-old boy. Maryland’s secretary of human services, Theodore Dallas, made that disclosure Monday in a welcome break from the official silence that has surrounded this horrific death. Mr. Dallas promised a thorough investigation and said that the results, as allowed by law, would be shared with the public.'

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New settlement aims to prod Miss. on foster care

New settlement aims to prod Miss. on foster care:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi officials have agreed to a revised settlement in a lawsuit alleging that the state was not doing enough to care for minors in the foster care system.

The new agreement is meant to push the state to fulfill promises it made when it first settled the suit in 2008, adding a sixth year on what was originally expected to be a five-year process. That gives the state a total of three more years from now to meet the goals.

The suit was first brought in 2004 by a New York-based group, Children's Rights, on behalf of minors that it said were being mistreated in the state's foster care system.

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Report makes recommendations for guardian ad litem program

Report makes recommendations for guardian ad litem program - News - The Times-Tribune:

An arm of the state Supreme Court issued a stern report of a Lackawanna County court program that was created to protect children in family custody disputes, which also has been under the gaze of the FBI.

The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts released a 113-page report on Thursday centered on the county family court's guardian ad litem program, finding it suffers from a lack of oversight and financial accountability, and providing 51 recommendations to improve it

Read the report HERE

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