Trailblazing therapy helps warring parents work together in the interests of their children

Trailblazing therapy helps warring parents work together in the interests of their children:

The Parents in Dispute Therapeutic programme engages with the most difficult cases and provides an alternative to protracted and damaging court battles for separated couples and their children

A new programme has demonstrated that it is possible to successfully engage parents 'entrenched' in emotionally damaging and costly legal disputes surrounding the care of their children.

DCYF report: Staff burnout, turnover rate reaches all-time high

DCYF report: Staff burnout, turnover rate reaches all-time high | Health - WMUR Home:

DCYF currently has 176 child protection service workers, with a turnover rate around 50 percent in the past two years.The report states that staffing is inadequate and burnout is at an all-time high.

How Smart Do You Have to Be to Raise a Child?

How Smart Do You Have to Be to Raise a Child? -- The Cut:

The state said a 19-year-old with an intellectual disability wasn’t equipped to look after her baby and whisked the newborn off to another family just after birth—a decision the mother was ready to fight. But how smart do you have to be to raise a child?

Banning spankings at home will punish good parents – church

Banning spankings at home will punish good parents – church | City Press:

Good parents would end up in prison if legislative amendments go ahead prohibiting children from being spanked at home.

Foster care needs overhaul: Walker dragging ball and chain in Sarnia-Ottawa walk to press for overhaul of foster care system

Foster care needs overhaul: Walker | Peterborough Examiner:

 "A man who grew up in foster care is walking more than 750 kilometres with nearly 40 pounds shackled to his ankle to shine light on a system that he said is failing kids.

Jessie McVicar was raised in foster care in Alberta from the time he was nine years old."

Georgia failed to protect girl who died in foster care

Georgia failed to protect girl who died in foster care | www.ajc.com:

Georgia’s child protection agency removed 2-year-old Laila Marie Daniel from her troubled mother and placed her in foster care.That is among the state’s strongest exercises of power over an individual: to take your kids away.

Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum, killed in Oregon shooting, was Arizona foster parent and rancher

Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum, killed in Oregon shooting, was Arizona foster parent and rancher | OregonLive.com:

Robert "LaVoy" Finicum was killed in a shootout Tuesday while traveling from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to John Day for a public meeting, sources have told The Oregonian/OregonLive.