Julia Steiny: Recruiting Family Before Foster Care

GoLocalProv | News | Julia Steiny: Recruiting Family Before Foster Care:

Charles Dickens filled his novels with orphans, who'd "lost their people" by death or other circumstances. The word "Dickensian" refers to a heartlessly industrializing world where such children were liabilities, plain and simple. Actually, our current Congress seems to feel similarly about the hundreds of thousands of kids they're hoping to throw off food stamps and subsidized lunches. We're no longer Dickensian, exactly, but in this economy, compassion costs too much money, plain and simple. I guess we've finally arrived at a post-moral culture.
The Coalition's website explains, "The old assumption was that if a child's parents couldn't care for her, everyone else in the family would have a similarly negative influence — that the apple didn't fall far from the tree. The new conventional wisdom is that having contact with family is critical to a child's identity, and if you haven't found any family members who can be a positive influence, then you haven't looked hard enough."

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House, Senate Moving on Adoption Incentives Grant Overhaul

House, Senate Moving on Adoption Incentives Grant Overhaul | The Chronicle of Social Change:

Both houses of Congress are moving on legislation that would overhaul the federal Adoption Incentives Grant Program.

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Anyone who wishes to provide input  can Email: feedback@finance.senate.gov.
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Most States Do Not Require Different Services for Young Children

Most States Do Not Require Different Services for Young Children | The Chronicle of Social Change:

Years after federal legislation aimed at prompting new ways to work with the oldest youths in the child welfare system, a survey by Zero to Three and Child Trends suggests that specialized services for maltreated infants has stagnated.

Indictments in CPS Caseworkers unsealed

Indictments in CPD case unsealed | 88.9 KETR:

Indictments filed against three current or former employees with the Child Protective Services (CPS) office in Greenville were unsealed Wednesday morning.

State will review cases handled by county's Child Protective Services

State will review cases handled by county's Child Protective Services | WBFO:

New York State is launching a review of child abuse cases being handled by Erie County Child Protective Services.  The action follows last week's beating death of a 5 year old Buffalo boy.

ALL Cases Nationwide NEED to be reviewed!

Invest in more support care for families in crisis, local authorities urged

Family Law Week: Invest in more support care for families in crisis, local authorities urged:

Research suggests that short-term care is a cost-effective solution

Local authorities in the UK should invest in support care schemes as a cost-effective way of supporting families and keeping children out of more expensive full-time care, the Fostering Network is urging.

7 Kids Who Were Punished By Schools For Using Imaginary Guns

7 Kids Who Were Punished By Schools For Using Imaginary Guns - John Hawkins - Page 1:

There was a time in America when the first priority of our schools was educating our children. That's no longer the case.