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Kansas and privatized child welfare
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A while back I mentioned that Kansas had privatized it's child welfare system. The article l wanted to link to at the Heritage Foundation is no longer available, thought have a hard copy of it. I was looking for something today and found this--the results of privatization. Privatization was highly touted by the Right as a cure-all to wasteful, redundant programs that obviously the government was in capable of fixing. Here's what happened , from the August 3, 2001 issue of the Christian Science M ...
Child welfare breaks up family over guns
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At time of crisis, the system fails A Star editorial March 16, 2001 The child welfare system should do everything in its power to keep the Sistrunk family together. Instead, it's turned its wrath upon them. God knows that Calvin and Shawnae Sistrunk are remorseful for what happened. God knows they're grateful their mistake wasn't fatal. By now the story is familiar. The couple's 6-year-old daughter found a gun in a dresser and took it with her to school. Her older sister turned it in to the prin ...
Where the CS goes....
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So I just started to pay CS (over $1000 per month). I am now beginning to see where that money goes: - about $500 to feed and provide necistites to the children (2) - ex's lawyer fees to take me to court - new mini-van - new house - trips - other non-kid things And surprisingly there is no money for the children's education plan, day care, clothes, etc. Great system (in Canada anyway)... sheesh.
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National Resource Center for Youth Development The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development, through a cooperative agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Children’s Bureau, provides training and technical assistance to publicly administered and supported child welfare agencies. All young people need relationships with caring adults, opportunities to learn important life skills, and the chance to plan their future.
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development (NCWRCYD) increases the capacity and resources of States and Tribes to help youth in care meet the goals of safety, permanence, and well-being. The Center can help States incorporate youth into all areas of programs and services, implement services that address legislative requirements, and prepare for Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) and Program Improvement Plan (PIP) development and implementation. The Center bases its technical assistance and training around four core principles: youth development, collaboration, ...
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development (NCWRCYD) increases the capacity and resources of States and Tribes to help youth in care meet the goals of safety, permanence, and well-being. The Center can help States incorporate youth into all areas of programs and services, implement services that address legislative requirements, and prepare for Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) and Program Improvement Plan (PIP) development and implementation. The Center bases its technical assistance and training around four core principles: youth development, collaboration, ...
Casey Family Services:: Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Call to Action: An Integrated Approach to Youth Permanency and Preparation for Adulthood This brief and comprehensive report examines the need to assure that all youth in foster care have both family relationships they can count on for a life time and the skills that prepare them to navigate the adult world. The Call to Action establishes an integrated and customized practice framework along with specific indicators of change for youth, families and the child welfare system. Casey Family Services and the Annie E. Casey Foundation developed this paper ...
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Many States Cut Off Foster Youth at 18 SAN FRANCISCO - Anthony Pico qualifies as an expert on foster care after spending 18 years in California's program. And he says it's far from perfect. But staying in the system and receiving financial help as long as possible would be much better than being cast adrift, said Pico, who took part in a broad discussion of foster care at a meeting of the American Bar Association. "I'm an adult, but I don't want to move out. I don't want to start paying rent. If I stay in until I'm 19 or 20, I'll be more stable and maybe I won't repeat ...
Pico, who lives in transitional housing in San Francisco, provides a human face to a problem that frustrates the social workers, lawyers and judges who work with foster children. Many states cut off support for foster care youth when they turn 18, even though most people that age continue to receive financial help from their families. And even when states do extend help, the children who have been in the foster care system often decline the aid. Belinda Edwards, a juvenile court judge in Atlanta, ...
Stunning dividends from early learning Washington doesn’t have much to compare with the Child-Parent Centers, but it is moving to jump-start their creation here. Thrive by Five, a public-private initiative, is creating similar centers in White Center and Yakima as demonstration projects to show other communities how to give disadvantaged children the best possible start in life. In Pierce County, United Way is already working to improve and coordinate existing early learning efforts.
Facility for troubled youth has deep troubles, state finds NEW LISBON, N.J. (AP) _ The state has placed an independent monitor at a facility for troubled youth after discovering heavy reliance on untrained workers, frequent use of physical restraints and a high number of children walking away. The Pathfinder program in Burlington County, owned by Tucson, Ariz.-based VisionQuest, is the largest treatment facility for children in New Jersey. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in Tuesday's newspapers that Kevin Ryan, commissioner of the state's Department of Children and Families wrote a letter in June that said the problems at the New Lisbon Center "are so significant ...
VisionQuest officials agreed there are serious problems. allowed the onsite monitor and say the program is being overhauled. VisionQuest provides education, mental-health, child-welfare and juvenile-justice services at 40 locations in seven states. Children with behavioral disorders are placed in the New Lisbon facility by the state's child-welfare system. "The whole system needs to be revamped," VisionQuest's president, Pete Ranalli, told the newspaper. "The kids were supposed to be in the program for a year _ tops _ and we're getting kids for two years, three years." The number of children is not the only cause ...
Blogs
Report Cards for the Kiddos Report Cards for the Kiddos August 2nd, 2007 at 2:45 pm God bless the poor souls who try to quantify whether the Texas Legislature is friendly to poor kids. A Houston nonprofit recently compiled a legislative scorecard on children’s issues, and it seems the task proved too ugly to complete. Children at Risk is a nonprofit devoted to improving the lives of kids in Houston and around the state through “research, education and influencing public policy.” In addition to encouraging the federal government to expand SCHIP , the center just released its legislative report card that grades ...
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