Yolo County’s Child Welfare system under microscope

Yolo County’s Child Welfare system under microscope:

Yolo County’s Child Welfare Services system may go through substantial changes in the coming months as county supervisors take a deeper look at its operations. The agency, which falls under Yolo County’s Health and Human Services Department, came under fire earlier this year after Supervisor Matt Rexroad made an impassioned speech pointing out the agency’s defects.

Public advocate pushes for foster care abuse settlement

Public advocate pushes for foster care abuse settlement - NY Daily News:

Ignoring a booming chorus of opposition, the city's Public Advocate Letitia James Friday urged a federal judge to approve of a settlement agreement she had made with state officials to impose a special monitor on the city's foster care system.

Reforms sought by foster youths separated from siblings

Reforms sought by foster youths separated from siblings:

Dominique Martinez says she was around 9 and her half-brother was a year younger when she saw him for the last time.The two children were split briefly into two foster homes, then by adoption when he joined a family who didn't want him in touch with his biological family, Martinez said. She couldn't visit, find out where he was or say goodbye.

The Drug Docs: State’s top foster care prescribers fueling medication of vulnerable kids

For years, few questioned how doctors treated the emotional trauma of California’s abused and neglected children — and nobody monitored how often they handed out psychiatric drugs that can turn fragile childhoods into battles with obesity and bouts of stupor.

Israel's Stolen Babies: Shocking Story of a Decades-old Secret

Israel's Stolen Babies: Shocking Story of a Decades-old Secret | News | teleSUR English:

As many as 5,000 Mizrahim Jewish babies, mostly Yemenis, were reported missing in Israel between 1948 and 1954. Families say they were given away.

Woman gives up fight to adopt niece

Woman gives up fight to adopt niece | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
A Cameroonian woman who spent the last two years in the United States fighting in the Allegheny County court system to adopt her niece will head back to her home next week alone. Catherine Gana was unsuccessful in her efforts to adopt the 6-year-old girl who has spent the last four years in foster care with a woman in Penn Hills.

 Again Relative Placement is ignored by the Family Court Judges who make up their own rules!!!!! Abolish Title IV funding and see how fast these Judges uphold the Law!

Again Relative Placement is ignored by the Family Court Judges who make up their own rules!!!!! Abolish Title IV funding and see how fast these Judges uphold the Law!Again Relative Placement is ignored by the Family Court Judges who make up their own rules!!!!! Abolish Title IV funding and see how fast these Judges uphold the Law!

Again Relative Placement is ignored by the Family Court Judges who make up their own rules!!!!! Abolish Title IV funding and see how fast these Judges uphold the Law!

Again Relative Placement is ignored by the Family Court Judges who make up their own rules!!!!! Abolish Title IV funding and see how fast these Judges uphold the Law!

Ohio social worker less trusting a decade after boy's death

Ohio social worker less trusting a decade after boy's death - Clay Center Dispatch On-Line: State:

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio social worker says he's less trusting a decade after a 3-year-old special-needs child he was in charge of died when the boy's foster parents bound him with duct tape and placed him in a tiny, hot closet for several days without food or water.