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GA: DFCS Judge no longer allowed to handle neglect cases
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UPDATED: 1:10 P.M. Judge who left child alone at home stays on bench, but can't handle child-neglect cases By STEVE VISSER and CRAIG SCHNEIDER Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writers Judge Nina Hickson, in her second four-year term, is chief of Fulton County Juvenile Court. Related: ??? Statement: 'I ... should have known better' ??? Atlanta/South Metro community page Fulton County Superior Court judges Tuesday allowed a juvenile judge to stay on the bench after she recused herself from handl ...
Child neglect a byproduct of addiction
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By Carol Kreck Denver Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 17, 2002 - Methamphetamine is hard on mothers - and even harder on their children. Eight-year-old Caitlin Brotherton remembers the years in Colorado Springs her mother sold and used meth. "I kinda did worry because I knew the drugs could kill her," she said, moving in and out of her mother's arms at the dining hall at Cenikor in Jefferson County. The two live there temporarily while her mom, Brandi Kaley, is in treatment. Caitlin is ...
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Legacy Behavioral Services Child Neglect This program uses a Psycho-Educational Model and focuses on the negative behaviors associated with endangering children's lives, i.e. substance abuse/use, domestic violence, verbal abuse and uncontrollable anger. The program is offered in an environment that promotes learning and growth to build healthier home environments for children to live in. Court Ordered approved and Self-Referrals accepted. Legacy Behavioral Services also offers shorter courses that meet the needs of CPS, Paroles, or other regulatory agencies. Condensed courses are offered ...
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Residential Treatment Services:: Residential Treatment RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT PROGRAM (RTP) The Residential Treatment Program (RTP) provides 24-hour psychiatric treatment to severely emotionally disturbed boys age 8-15 who would generally require psychiatric hospitalization or placement in sub-acute psychiatric treatment facilities. The six-acre, Davis Campus Program currently houses 54 youth. Typically these children have histories of acute psychiatric hospitalization and established histories of an inability to succeed under family-based care or in lower-level group homes. In most cases, the children have also experienced failure in public ...
Child Mental Health Treatment Act FAQ The parent/guardian income is not counted in determining financial eligibility if admission to a residential facility will occur within 30 days and will last longer than one month. It is essential to provide the SSA office with all relevant reports, assessments, evaluations, and other documentation concerning the child's mental health needs. An SSI checklist developed by the SSA can help in the application process. Additional information about SSI can be found on the Social Security Administration's website.
For the first 30 days, when SSI eligibility usually has not been determined, residential treatment costs are covered by private insurance (if available), parental fee, and State funds. Beyond the first 30 days, for children found eligible for SSI, the payment is covered by private insurance (if available), the child's monthly SSI benefit (minus $30 which is used for the personal needs of the child), parental fee, and State funds, if necessary. Medicaid reimburses the residential facility for treatment costs.
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Monitor to oversee facility for troubled children The largest privately run residential facility for troubled kids in New Jersey will be monitored by an expert to help correct safety and treatment problems that prompted the state to halt admissions in April. The monitor will oversee the VisionQuest Pathfinders program in Burlington County under an informal agreement reached between the program, the state's child wel fare agency and the Office of the Child Advocate, officials from the organizations confirmed yesterday. But state officials and operators of the program agreed improvements are needed. They say there are too many children on site, the "longhouse" ...
Foster beds go empty as kids sleep in offices ELGIN — When sisters Sue Knetig and Pam Castello, both foster parents, heard that some Texas foster children have been sleeping in state offices, they were frustrated and confused. That's because, for months, they have had an empty bedroom in their creekside home. Since January, about 500 children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect have slept at a state office building. That has cost the state about $300,000, mostly in overtime pay to state ...
Protecting our children Hershberger, a Republican, and Bradley, a Democrat, warn that lawmakers who don't fully understand the extremely sensitive, potentially dangerous and grinding work of Child Protective Services can do more harm than good with their push for openness. Instead of stripping confidentiality rules, they say, lawmakers should give CPS enough highly trained caseworkers and substance abuse treatment resources.
That's a reasonable, educated idea. But we're talking about the Arizona Legislature, the same group that continues to largely ignore the connected web of child welfare, substance abuse, poverty and mental-health care. The latest budget allocates $5 million for the Families First initiative, $2 million of which was a one-time allocation lawmakers had to vigorously push to keep. "It's far less than we need," Hershberger said. "We fight every year."
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More Poisonous Parenting When I wrote the previous post , I hadn’t thought about the possibility of it becoming a series. But since posting it, I’ve received a few stories via email and come across more in the news that I thought worth highlighting. Why? Because, there’s still some life — and legislative consequences — left in the assumption that heterosexuals are better candidates for parenthood than LGBT people, simply by virtue of being heterosexual. Case in point, Dana pointed out that Oklahoma’s anti-gay adoption bill — which I’ve ...
I’ll leave it lawyers and other legal minds to figure out the implications re: the Full Faith and Credit clause . The defeat of anti-gay adoption bills in several states, and the passage of the Colorado bill are encouraging . But as long as some people with media bullhorns call gay parenting abusive and selfish , it’s worth seeing how we measure up against some inherently better candidates — because they’re heterosexual — for parenthood .
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Abandonment - Desertion of a child by a parent or adult primary caregiver with no provisions for continued childcare nor with any apparent intention to return to resume caregiving. Abuse and Neglect - Physical, sexual and/or emotional maltreatment. Child abuse and neglect is defined as any recent act or failure to act resulting in imminent risk of serious harm, death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation of a child (a person under the age of 18, unless the child protection law of the state in which the child resides specifies a younger age for cases not involving sexual abuse) by a parent ...