Race Plays Into Adoption Bias Against Foster Kids

Race Plays Into Adoption Bias Against Foster Kids | Psych Central News:

Although hundreds of thousands of children in the U.S wait in foster care for adoption, America leads the world in turning to international channels to adopt abroad. A new study finds that these foster kids — most of whom are children of color — are passed over because of racial bias, especially against African-Americans.

Agreement gives Southeast Alaska tribal council control over foster care cases

Agreement gives Southeast Alaska tribal council control over foster care cases | Alaska Dispatch News:

JUNEAU — Jurisdiction over Tlingit and Haida child welfare cases is being transferred from the state to the tribes, a decision tribal leaders say they've been working toward for years.

Lawsuit: State could’ve saved children raped by foster dad

Lawsuit: State could’ve saved children raped by foster dad - seattlepi.com:

Attorneys for girls say DSHS failed to act on misconduct report 2 years before Granite Falls man raped children

Forced psychiatric drugging of kids is prohibited under a new law in New Mexico

Forced psychiatric drugging of kids is prohibited under a new law in New Mexico | Examiner.com:

In a groundbreaking move New Mexico has become the first state in the United States to protect children from forced psychiatric drugging. Health Impact News reported on March 6, 2016, in the first such law in the United States a new law in New Mexico prohibits the forced psychiatric drugging of children.

An E-mail I received today-My precious grandchildren/ help me

My heart is heavy that my grandchildren cannot live with me because of my past. More than that my sister Eve could possibly think that trying to monitor and control my relationship with my grandchildren was any kind of a solution for what is going to help them in this already very traumatic situation. Never in my life of all the many difficult things I've experienced can I say that one person could destroy a relationship like she has done multiple times. I will never again try to initiate any type of relationship with her again. I will instead work as an advocate to help others with a criminal history that transpired do to drug and alcohol abuse, have the ability to be the advocate for their children and grandchildren if they worked really hard at turning their life around. I have twenty one years and counting sober and have reunited and raised my children been involved with my grandchildren all their lives and now that my son is struggling in life with this horrible disease my grandchildren are caught in the middle. Although my sister "Eve" aka "Genevieve" may think she has the answer, my grandchildren want to be with me!!! They barely know her and she can be extremely overbearing with the beliefs of her program, "Peters Procedures". She is not a parent nor has she ever been married and is fifty. That has been fifty years of self-centered ideas. Fortunately for her the alcoholism in her life did not lead her to criminal activity. So the benefit is that although this disease connects in her life as well, on paper she looks much different. With no experience at all or even much involvement with my grandchildren she has become the main advocate making many of the decisions and informing the court what she feels needs to take place, supervised visits and monitored phone calls. Making "cps believe in any way shape or form that my relationship can cause any harm to "my" grandchildren is only a clever scheme of my sisters Eve constant manipulation to do what she wants. It sickens me that our system is so broken that something as intensely emotional and heartfelt can be manipulated so easily also that a family member can be so heartless. I should've learned my lesson when she tried that same heartless manipulative direction when I was caring for our mother. Thankfully even though she tried very hard to make my past my present in that situation as well calling adult protective service on me and trying to get me arrested for assault on her, because I made her leave the room where she laid in bed with our mom for seven hours not once changing her or moving her. This is a cold hearted person let alone family member. I'm making this public because I need the world and public to share this enough that maybe someday children's voices will matter and families who have earned their way back into society by making an amends to their life don't have to keep paying consequences for their past over and over, when in fact it was rectified by the incarnation and life consequences many times over...!!!! Please help me make this horrible situation known, so my grandchildren know I am doing any and all things I can to give them the love they deserve!!!!! Share this post with me because of my past. More than that my sister Eve could possibly think that trying to monitor and control my relationship with my grandchildren was any kind of a solution for what is going to help them in this already very traumatic situation. Never in my life of all the many difficult things I've experienced can I say that one person could destroy a relationship like she has done multiple times. I will never again try to initiate any type of relationship with her again. I will instead work as an advocate to help others with a criminal history that transpired do to drug and alcohol abuse, have the ability to be the advocate for their children and grandchildren if they worked really hard at turning their life around. I have twenty one years and counting sober and have reunited and raised my children been involved with my grandchildren all their lives and now that my son is struggling in life with this horrible disease my grandchildren are caught in the middle. Although my sister "Eve" aka "Genevieve" may think she has the answer, my grandchildren want to be with me!!! They barely know her and she can be extremely overbearing with the beliefs of her program, "Peters Procedures". She is not a parent nor has she ever been married and is fifty. That has been fifty years of self-centered ideas. Fortunately for her the alcoholism in her life did not lead her to criminal activity. So the benefit is that although this disease connects in her life as well, on paper she looks much different. With no experience at all or even much involvement with my grandchildren she has become the main advocate making many of the decisions and informing the court what she feels needs to take place, supervised visits and monitored phone calls. Making "cps believe in any way shape or form that my relationship can cause any harm to "my" grandchildren is only a clever scheme of my sisters Eve constant manipulation to do what she wants. It sickens me that our system is so broken that something as intensely emotional and heartfelt can be manipulated so easily also that a family member can be so heartless. I should've learned my lesson when she tried that same heartless manipulative direction when I was caring for our mother. Thankfully even though she tried very hard to make my past my present in that situation as well calling adult protective service on me and trying to get me arrested for assault on her, because I made her leave the room where she laid in bed with our mom for seven hours not once changing her or moving her. This is a cold hearted person let alone family member. I'm making this public because I need the world and public to share this enough that maybe someday children's voices will matter and families who have earned their way back into society by making an amends to their life don't have to keep paying consequences for their past over and over, when in fact it was rectified by the incarnation and life consequences many times over...!!!! Please help me make this horrible situation known, so my grandchildren know I am doing any and all things I can to give them the love they deserve!!!!! Share this post
                                                                                       Kim Kapp

Fix foster care

Fix foster care - Houston Chronicle:

The state is an unfit surrogate parent for some children. That's basically what U.S. District Court Judge Janis Jack of Corpus Christi said in a 255-page ruling that faults our state's foster care system. Children under permanent management care of the state of Texas leave the program - after repeated exposure to physical, sexual and psychological abuse - more damaged than when they entered.

NH DCYF Report to the Commission on Child Abuse Fatalities

http://www.seiu1984.org/files/2016/03/DCYF-Report-to-Commission-Feb.-29-2016.pdf
NH DCYF Report to the Commission on Child Abuse Fatalities Regarding Expanded Response Capability to Reports of Abuse and Neglect