STEPS Strengthens Families In Fort Smith Area

STEPS Strengthens Families In Fort Smith Area | Times Record:

The STEPS Family Resource Center works to strengthen families by equipping them with the resources they need to raise children in a nonviolent, healthy and positive environment.

At Christmas, don't forget the uncaring side of state 'care’

At Christmas, don't forget the uncaring side of state 'care’ - Telegraph:

All over the country, children and their parents are being split up for no good reason by social workers

We may spare a seasonal thought for those thousands of children removed from their parents by social workers for no good reason who are spending this Christmas unhappily in state “care”, wanting nothing more than to return home to their equally unhappy parents.

Is This What Has Become of America? Texas Citizens Have 3 Children Seized at Airport for Wanting to Visit Dying Mother

Is This What Has Become of America? Texas Citizens Have 3 Children Seized at Airport for Wanting to Visit Dying Mother:

Since the interview below, Health Impact News has received updated information. The Giwas are no longer free to speak to us or to any other media. They were reminded of this during a recent hearing where they were told that they must pay a $5000 fine for exercising their 1st Amendment right to free speech. A court order forbids them to do any fundraising to raise the money to pay the fine.

Disturbing Connecticut DCF case

The Day - Disturbing DCF case - News from southeastern Connecticut:

As noted in this space before, the task confronting the Connecticut Department of Children and Families is arguably the toughest in state government. It’s charge is to protect children from social disintegration.

Grandparents seek for rights referendum

Grandparents seek for rights referendum | www.kirotv.com:

PUYALLUP, Wash. — 

It is an endearing image, a picture of a grandparent and grandchild. 

But for some grandparents, that image is a cruel reminder of what they don't have.

Two Child Protective Service employees resign, two disciplined in connection with case involving 22-month-old girl who died from apparent neglect

Two Child Protective Service employees resign, two disciplined in connection with case involving 22-:
Two Abilene Child Protective Services employees resigned May 31 after the agency learned one of them had an “inappropriate relationship” with the father of a 22-month-old girl who died from apparent neglect.
In addition, two other local CPS employees have been disciplined for not reporting what they knew of the situation.

Number of missing foster children up by 19%

Number of missing foster children up by 19% (From Bournemouth Echo):
FOSTER children went missing from care more than 17,000 times in a year and 168 of those occasions were in Dorset.
Figures released by Ofsted show that the numbers going missing while living with foster carers in England rose in 2014-15 by 19 per cent from the previous year.