It was called a "mandate and beyond: recommendations of the Maine wabanaki-state child welfare".
Speakers from the Reconciliation, Engagement, Advocacy, Change and Healing Activities commission say it's time for Native American youth, to get the rights they deserve. Executive Director Charlotte Bacon of the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare TRC said, "When people are denied justice in one area--it means justice are diminished for all, as Dr. King said."
Regardless of how you choose to parent your child, you can be sure that someone will disagree with it. And there is always going to be someone out there who will also voice that disagreement — whether you care to hear it or not.
Ofsted inspections of children's services are outdated and do not always protect vulnerable children, claims a report from a group campaigning for reforms to public services.
Rosie O'Donnell and Michelle Rounds' custody battle continues today, with the TV star's estranged wife now claiming their two-year-old adopted daughter, Dakota, has "24/7 nannies" while with Rosie.
Note: This is funny because she plays the all wise and knowing social worker on The Fosters, was the social worker in America, and brags about foster care and adoption.
A review by the Department of Children and Families of the handling of abuse reports prior to the death of Ahziya Osceola found faults with the investigations.
The release in late March of an alarming new report by federal investigators has confirmed in shocking new detail what has been known for years: Poor and foster care kids covered by Medicaid are being prescribed too many dangerous antipsychotic drugs at young ages for far too long -- mostly without any medical justification at all. The report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General examined in depth nearly 700 claims filed in 2011 in five of the biggest prescribing states -- California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and New York -- and discovered that two thirds of all the prescribing with these popular and costly "second generation antipsychotics" (SGAs) raised high-risk "quality of care" concerns.
Foster children in Connecticut are still not receiving all the mental health services, child care and housing supports they need, partly because the programs are not available, a federal court monitor reported Wednesday.
Which suggests that there are times when it's okay to hit your kids? Why, that goes against everything that the Child Abuse Prevention People stand for or against. Where do we draw the line?
I personally would suggest that this mother, Toya Graham, is perfectly justified. The kid was acting like a thug, destroying property, computing crimes and probably hurting people. He probably deserved a lot worse than what mom did to him.
The feminazi's would not agree however.
I want to be clear that I’m not angry so much with Toya Graham as I am with white America’s reaction to her actions. Toya Graham did what she felt she had to in a difficult situation. That doesn’t make it right (it wasn’t), but it does make it understandable. White America, on the other hand, has created a situation where black parents feel they have to beat their children to protect them from white violence, to the extent that violence like Toya’s is in some sense an extension of white violence—and then white America praises this violence.
And as usual, Libby Ann here is as full of shit as a Christmas turkey. She seems to think that this is an extension of the slaves beating the children in front of the white masters, and to save him from the horrific punishment's that "white violence" would bring upon him 150 years ago.
It has absolutely nothing to do with a loving mom wanting her kid to grow up right. It has nothing to do with the fact that the kid was acting like a criminal and engaging in criminal activity. Nope, she hit him. That is abuse. CPS needs to take him away, throw him in foster care and drug him into compliance because there is never any good reason to hit your child. (Most people don't have a clue what happens to these kids in CPS care and think it's a better place.)
F****** idiots. If more mom's would stand up like that we wouldn't have half the problems with these punks that we do. Perhaps if Freddy Gray's mom was like this he never would have ended up in police custody that day. No of course not, what am I saying. He would have probably ended up in foster care.
What a way to end National Child Abuse Propaganda Month though. With a perfectly justifiable child beating.
A Galliano man is accused of sending a threatening text message to a Department of Children and Family Services employee Tuesday, the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office said.
Note: I've said it before and I'll say it again. Never make threats. You will loose the element of surprise.
In an unprecedented move, the federal government has ordered the Department of Children and Families to return a child to her mother. And on Tuesday, we are hearing for the first time directly from the child's family about their 2-year battle with the department.
Last October, Sam Ramsey asked the Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) for his medical records and other important information that the state agency had compiled while he was a juvenile in its custody.
A South Dakota state judge and other defendants have filed motions requesting a federal judge reconsider his ruling in which he found state officials in Rapid City set policies that violate the federal Indian Child Act Welfare Act.
There are great injustices happening right now in this state to our children, parents and grandparents that need to be addressed by the citizens of our beautiful state of Montana.
Georgia Senator Nancy Schaefer may have known more about State-sponsored kidnappings than any other politician in the United States before she was murdered in March of 2010. Her published report, The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services, is reproduced below. It was the basis for many lectures and interviews she gave on the topic. She claims the report caused her to lose her Senate seat in the Georgia State Senate, but she stated:
The Constitutional Court decided on Tuesday that it is within someone's right to freedom of expression to wear the FCK CPS logo, but only if the insult is aimed at police in general.
El Paso Police have arrested and charged a 55-year-old El Paso with Indecency with a Child and Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child after a foster child who was placed with her in 2002 came forth with allegations against the woman.
Rosie O’Donnell‘s divorce is taking a bitter turn: Her estranged wife Michelle Rounds was filing Tuesday for full custody of their 2-year-old daughter Dakota.
Recently, the better half and I have been wondering how much of a leash we should extend our seven-year-old child. She participates in a few adult-supervised extracurriculars within walking distance of our house, but can she can travel to and from these activities by herself? It’s not that she can’t be trusted to cross the street or otherwise be safe. As for our personal experience as parents, we grew up in towns in Colorado and Oregon where it would have been unthinkable not to let kids our daughter’s age roam on their own.
California's Child and Protective Services, as well as Orange County California face lawsuits filed by Attorney Shawn McMillan for allegedly seizing more 5,000 children in State-sponsored kidnappings, Pravda.Ru reports.
A father tells News 19 that his 17-year-old has left Richland County Department of Social Services custody after they housed him in a hotel in Lexington County earlier this month.
A family court judge ruled that the logic behind criminal courts admitting hearsay statements when defendants have intimidated witnesses may also apply to a child protective matter.
Alberta’s child welfare system has reported its first death in 2015-16, prompting NDP Leader Rachel Notley to hammer Progressive Conservative Leader Jim Prentice for cutting child intervention funding.
State Rep. Stephanie Chang introduced a bill last week as the direct result of a recent Detroit case where a mother claimed she was home-schooling two children she had killed and placed in her freezer two years ago.
A Georgia man lost custody of his two sons, his business, his apartment, most of his belongings, and seven months of his life when he was jailed for allegedly attacking a social worker.
A Michigan father convicted of abusing his then-11-week-old daughter who might lose parental rights to his only child claims his baby was never abused.
Eight children were separated by family services in 1937 after they were found to be living in deplorable conditions, and today, just two are still living. Elizabeth Keller and Shirley Bridge hadn’t seen one another since they were eight and two years old, respectively. FOX6 was there as they came together again — 78 years later!
Nearly 2,000 children are living in Maine’s foster care system, far outpacing the number of approved foster and adoptive families. While the Office of Child and Family Services issued a plea last month for more families to open their homes to children in foster care, we must do more to end this tragedy and ensure our children grow up in safe, loving homes.
Eight of our colleagues in the Legislature are standing beside us to respond to this urgent need, sponsoring legislation that mobilizes the local community to prevent abuse and neglect by supporting families in crisis and helping them stay together. Our bill, LD 1065, the Strengthening Families Act, empowers parents or guardians to provide for the short-term care of a child when life circumstances prevent them from doing so. Our goal is to protect families and their rights while giving them the courage to ask for help before the challenges they face spiral out of control.
Montgomery County police do not have to send unattended children to Child Protective Services if they do not believe neglect is involved in the case and can instead notify the parents and drive the children home, according to a newly released memo from county officials that makes it clear that police have discretion when they find children walking alone in the county.
Charges were dropped this week against a former Lincoln County foster parent and one-time math teacher indicted for allegedly raping an 8-year-old girl.
A Department of Children and Families investigation into the killing of Pasco County 9-year-old Jenica Randazzo revealed a communication breakdown between child protective investigators and family case workers.
Holding her newborn in her arms is a profound moment for any mother. But thousands of women pregnant outside of marriage in the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s were coerced into having their children adopted. Emma Yeomans speaks to Veronica Smith about a mother’s nightmare
A 36-year-old Hancock County woman was charged with kidnapping last week after refusing to comply with a court order to turn her daughter over to the Mississippi Department of Human Services.
Kansas’ Department of Children and Families pays St. Francis Community Services, a private foster care contractor, large amounts of money not only to refer cases to DCF, but also increases the amount of money the private company receives based on how long St. Francis remains engaged with the family.
The foster father accused of killing 11-month-old Ka’ron Mason was granted $75,000 bond Thursday in Stafford County Court. As part of the bond conditions, David John Marcussen, 33, of Fredericksburg, must stay away from children and must be supervised while around his own two and six-year-old children. He must also surrender his passport. Marcussen was charged with felony murder, involuntary manslaughter, two counts of cruelty to children and one count of child neglect after investigators said Ka’ron died from severe burns suffered while Marcussen gave him a bath.
Georgia social workers charged with overseeing the safety of foster children are getting increasingly behind in their paperwork, making it difficult for managers and the public to ensure they are doing the job, according to a state audit.
In the first three months of 2015, more than a handful of Hall County foster care kids with the Division of Family and Children Services spent an average of two nights in a hotel.
As a child, I spent almost a decade being shuffled through 14 different foster care placements, including two group homes. It wasn't until I was 12 years old that a family came along and gave me the permanent, loving home of my dreams.
When a woman in Texas claimed that Alondra Luna Nunez was her long-lost daughter, the girl's real parents in Mexico say they presented more than a dozen documents from baptismal records and a copy of her birth certificate to family photographs. They were sure it was enough to demonstrate her true origins.
After a child welfare caseworker was attacked by a knife-wielding client at her office in Camden, Gov. Chris Christie's administration hired armed security guards and assigned them to each of the 46 offices scattered around the state to help calm workers' fears about their safety.
Several Eastern European countries have declared war on child protection agencies in Norway, Finland and the UK, claiming that they are breaking up families based on little or no conclusive evidence.
The nation's largest constituent group of adoption attorneys, law professors, and judges is reacting to the Department of Interior's recently issued guidelines from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) concerning the Indian Child Welfare Act(ICWA), a federal law established in 1978 to protect Native American children, families and tribes.
Here we go! Leave it to DHHS and WGME to start the conversation about criminalizing parents for letting their kids walk to school or letting their kids play outside. Yes, this is where it's headed as that's what happened recently to a couple of parents in Maryland.
Something as simple as a small cut on a child in your care can land you on Vermont’s secret child abuse substantiation list; and getting your name removed might just take a Vermont Supreme Court decision.
David John Marcussen, 33, of Village Parkway in Fredericksburg, was charged with felony murder, involuntary manslaughter, two counts of cruelty to children and one count of child neglect after investigators said his foster son died after a bath. Marcussen turned himself into the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office Friday and was jailed at the Rappahannock Regional Jail under no bond.
A veteran Boston Public Schools teacher who has been in the excess pool of unwanted teachers since February has lodged an explosive discrimination complaint, saying her principal filed an unfounded child-abuse claim against her as part of an effort to push out high-earning veteran teachers.
New Jersey's child welfare system could wrap up its court-ordered supervision and meet its obligations for improvement within two years, the commissioner of the Department of Children and Families said Wednesday.
The former head of a northwestern Pennsylvania child welfare agency who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $68,000 has been sentenced to nine months to nearly two years in the county jail.
The District Court abused its discretion when it blocked children from meeting with their attorneys in a lawsuit challenging the state's child welfare system, a federal appeals court says.
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services professionals are no strangers when it comes to local cases involving adult drug users and the children in their care.
Attorney Shawn A. McMillan, of the Law Office of Shawn A. McMillan, filed a Federal Lawsuit in the Central District of California, Southern Division on April 20, 2015 (case number 8:15-cv-00626). The lawsuit alleges that the Orange County Child Protective Services Agency took a young boy from his mothers home in the middle of the night without any justification, and without first obtaining a warrant. The Class Action complaint also alleges that as a matter of practice the agency frequently removes children from the custody of their parents without first obtaining a warrant where no emergency exists, and has done so for at least five years.
A former Missouri state social services worker is accused of stealing money intended for children. The alleged incident happened while this worker was still employed by the state.
Following powerful testimony by former foster youth, a package of reform bills designed to rein in the excessive use of psychiatric drugs in California's child welfare system met unanimous approval in the state Senate on Tuesday -- the first step in a series of legislative moves ahead.
In a recent post on the notorious Maryland case where authorities have repeatedly detained two children in order to force the Meitiv family to stop them from walking home alone, I noted that the parents have the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent on their side. At Above the Law, experienced public interest lawyer Sam Wright agrees that the parents have the Constitution on their side, but cautions that bureaucrats and lower court judges routinely ignore such petty issues as constitutional rights when it comes to enforcing the their conceptions of “the best interests of the child”:
Officials at Luzerne County Community College say they were stunned to find out that only five percent of foster kids in the county go to college. Now they are on a mission to change that.
Nearly two thirds of children in the care of Buckinghamshire County Council have been placed with foster families outside the county - with some living hundreds of miles away.
A 36-year-old Indiana woman, has been arrested and charged after she allegedly pretended to be working with the Department of Social Services on call so that she can kidnap a three-week old baby and killing the baby's mother, the Texas police reports.
Republicans pass laws for several reasons: To give handouts to the wealthy, destroy the environment, and shame the poor. A new law out of Illinois hits another favorite target of the GOP: Single moms and the working poor.
During a rally Monday at Stevens Park, people from near and far came to show support for Shona Banda, an advocate of medicinal marijuana now fighting for custody of her son.
The issue of Silver Spring parents Alexander and Danielle Meitiv – who have run afoul of Child Protective Services for letting their children walk to the park alone – has Montgomery County elected officials searching for answers.
Saskatchewan's children's advocate says he's concerned about the quality of case work in child protection services and says inconsistency is especially problematic.
I watch from about 10 feet away as you happily play on the beach access to the pool. It is your favorite place. Being 15, you don’t want your mom “breathing” down your neck, and so I stand in the water about 10 feet away, watching your siblings (4 and 7) splash around in the water wearing life jackets.
In the wake of the tragic murders of two Michigan children whose mother tortured them before stuffing them into the family’s freezer, lawmakers are calling for more stringent regulation of homeschooling in the state.
I was kidnapped by Sampson County DSS and Sampson County Law Enforcement over a year ago. I was returned to my dad by Judge Stevens because my dad never abused or neglected me. Now DSS wants me back because I was exposing how I was abused and neglected in Foster Care. They want to keep me away from my family and friends. I am 17 years old and I want to be with my dad. Sampson County Sheriff Thornton arrested my dad and is keeping him locked away at the Sampson County Detention Center in North Carolina because I will not go back to Foster Care to be abused even more. Me and my dad need help from anyone, any organization or any government agency stronger than Sampson County, North Carolina.
A former Kent County foster father has been ordered to stand trial on accusations he sexually assaulting two girls under his care before the state revoked his foster care license in 2011.
Two reports presented to lawmakers last week criticized the Florida Department of Children and Families for poor oversight of the privatized agencies that deliver child-welfare, substance-abuse and mental-health services statewide.
As a parent, grandparent, or any other caring human being you will also be horrified at what the authorities found when they inspected a pest control company truck on the side of the road.
'There is no-one from social services monitoring it. Where are the children when their mother is having a shower or a bath? The whole thing is just a shambles,” fumes angry father
Indiana police said Sunday that a missing 23-year-old mother has been found murdered in an apparent plot to steal her newborn baby, who had also disappeared.
Parental alienation syndrome is a psychological term that means one parent is turning the children against the other parent, usually due to a divorce or child custody dispute. The syndrome manifests as the child’s denigration of the other parent, but there is no real justification for it. It results from the other parent’s indoctrination of the child and the child’s own contribution to vilifying the targeted parent.
An unknown problem caused the Cuyahoga County 24-hour child-abuse hotline, 216-696-KIDS, to temporarily lose service for about four hours Sunday night, a Children and Family Services official said.
A foster mom has been arrested for “disciplining” the child in her care with a back scratcher and other items that included branches, water pipes, and steam.
National Mentor Holdings, a giant company in the lucrative but little-known field of privatized foster care, is shutting its foster care operations in Illinois in the wake of a scathing state government investigation that found a “culture of incompetence” at the firm and recommended that the state stop dealing with the company.
Washington tribes and the country's largest group representing Native Americans are asking for state and federal help in getting background checks when a tribe needs to place a child with a foster parent in an emergency situation.
The body of a young mother was found on Friday wrapped in plastic and stuffed in a storage bin 180 miles from her Anderson, Indiana, home. The mother, Samantha Fleming, and her 3-week-old infant named Serenity, were reported missing after they left on April 5 with a woman claiming to be from Indiana Child Protective Services. The fake CPS worker then took Samantha to her home where she murdered her and kidnapped the newborn.
I recently had an anguished call from the aunt of a young boy who had died in a tragic and widely reported accident. The boy’s distraught mother was her sister. I know this capable woman, because a year ago I told the bizarre story of how social workers had taken away her own daughter, a cousin of the dead boy. The children had grown up so close that they were “like brother and sister”.
A paedophile policeman who tried to foster young boys and talked about buying a baby online has been jailed for distributing indecent images of children.
A deadly combination of anti-anxiety and antidepressant drugs, painkillers and alcohol were responsible for the death of a teen living in an Antioch foster home late last year, a county coroner has found, intensifying questions about why no one took Steven Unangst to the doctor when he showed clear signs of being dangerously sedated.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are more than nine times as likely to be placed in out of home care than non-Indigenous children, a new report into government services has found.
There is currently a much-needed national spotlight on the high rates of psychotropic medication use among children and youth in foster care, most of whom receive health coverage through Medicaid.
Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen.
~ Father Merrin: The Exorcist 1972.
I think that the letter in the following article is a fake.
When Marie Rose Suprenant was 8 months old, she was admitted to the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta center after suffering severe abuse from her biological mother and her mom's boyfriend. She weighed just 14 pounds, sustained many fractures, and had a severe spinal injury that left her paraplegic. The couple was arrested, and Marie was adopted by Michele, a social worker at CHA.
It is possible that this is based on a real child's experience, and a social worker could surely help and direct this, but there is just too much that makes me question it's authenticity as well as demonstrates the process of the creation of a future social worker who has been listening to another social worker for most of her life. An 8-Year-Old’s Open Letter to Social Workers
I suppose I could be wrong but it is National Child Abuse Propaganda Month which did begin on April 1st, and the System Sucks are warming you up for all of those annual fundraiser events and bringing a tear to the eye of a normal person helps them to dig a little deeper. Just wait and see, the emotion junkies will all be standing around the pinwheel gardens, holding candles (that you can get for a 10 dollar donation) while this is read aloud all across the country. That's what they do. FMI: Click Here
Now I feel for this kid, I really do, and I'm sure she's sweet and smart and it was horrible what happened to her, but her situation is irrelevant to the fact that her head has been filled with a social workers bullshit. And now it's being used to help social workers feel good about themselves and sugar coat the process of destroying families by exploiting one of the few case that had a wonderful and happy ending.
Remember. Most of these kids come out of it all screwed up. FMI: Click Here
This case is not representative of the many like it's being sold.
We are rarely acknowledged for our hard work and, at times, I think we all wonder if we make a difference.
This is just one social workers bullshit being sold through a brainwashed child to be used as a public relations stunt.
Patsy Fercho has been virtually cut off from the grandchildren she raised until social services handed them over to their father, she said. She worries now they're being abused based on his history and their descriptions of life with their father.
The public has rallied in support of Maryland’s widely known “free-range” parents on a Facebook page, on news sites and in at least two online petitions calling for changes in how government agencies get involved in decisions by parents about what is best for their children.
While there is clear evidence that children born to mothers with experience in the foster care system are at heightened risk to enter the system themselves, a new bill in California would preclude social workers from using a pregnant or parenting foster youth’s foster care records when determining whether or not to remove his or her child.
A boy who stabbed his foster mother to death had fought with other pupils at his school and been teased about his foster background, an inquiry has heard.
Taita Taveta County Woman Representative Joyce Lay was on the verge of tears as she narrated to the National Assembly her experience in attempts to have a child through adoption.
The mother of a teen girl who was assaulted downtown after leaving her CFS hotel placement made an impassioned plea for privacy just hours after the girl was taken off life-support.
Exactly 19 years ago on Wednesday, Kathy Bush made national headlines when she was arrested and accused of deliberately making her 9-year-old daughter ill for attention.
Following pressure from several Alaska Native groups, the Walker administration has issued an emergency regulation designed to ease burdens on Alaska Natives hoping to adopt Native children.
Manitoba's Children's Advocate says, kids in government care are being kept in jail long after they should be released because there is nowhere else to put them.
My Turn: Child Protective Services' problem wasn't its name, but its starved budget — one that is strikingly similar to the Department of Child Safety's.
The Manitoba government is under fire after a provincial watchdog said children in government care are languishing in jail due to a lack of foster care spots.
A Texas family court judge has denied the request of a legally married same-sex couple to adopt their newborn biological twin sons. The judge also denied a petition to list both men — or either — on the children’s birth certificates, even though Jason Hanna and Joe Riggs each biologically fathered one of the twin boys, Lucas and Ethan.
Here is an article about the pinwheels for National Child Abuse Propaganda Month, which they're probably selling off to the bleeding hearts as a fundraiser.
The 437 blue and silver pinwheels, which are the national symbols for child abuse and neglect prevention, represent the 437 reported and investigated cases in Medina County for 2014.
Here's the reason this is a problem.
More than four-fifths of the investigations or
assessments determined that the child was not a
victim of maltreatment, with the following dispositions:
58.0 percent unsubstantiated, 9.7 percent no alleged
maltreatment, 10.7 percent alternative response
nonvictim,3
1.5 percent closed with no finding, 0.7
percent “other,” and 0.2 percent intentionally false.
Now lets do the math. (calculations are approximate based on national findings and the law of averages)
4/5ths = 80%
80% of 437 = 349 cases where the investigation determined that the child was not the victim of maltreatment. This leaves: 437-349=88 cases that were.
Now 88 substantiated cases doesn't look nearly as bad, or rather emotionally captivating as the number 437, does it. Therefore they are fluffing the numbers to try to make the problem appear worse than it actually is.
Outrage is inevitable when "protecting our nation's children" turns into state-sponsored kidnapping and perversely unnecessary trauma to families who don't follow the rules.
A new report says problems with the data management system Michigan uses to track its child welfare programs is one reason the state is still under court oversight.
A brand new computer that’s essential to calculating enhancements in Michigan’s child welfare programs remains an issue, frustrating condition employees in addition to families and agencies taking care of troubled kids, court-hired monitors reported Monday.
A D.C-based law firm will file suit and pursue “all legal remedies” to protect the rights of the Maryland parents whose two young children were taken into custody for more than five hours Sunday after someone reported them as they made their way home unsupervised from a Silver Spring park, the firm said Tuesday.
Danielle and Alexander Meitiv, the Maryland parents who have been criticized by Child Protective Services for letting their 10- and 6-year-old children walk and play in their suburban D.C. neighborhood alone, are now filing a lawsuit.
So the Bangor Daily News just published an article which talks about Mandated Reporter laws in Maine. While there is some good information here that could potentially save a child's life, I need to point something out.
Hunt County District Attorney Nobie Walker now wants the investigator whose work led to the indictment of three Child Protective Services workers in 2013 investigated.
A Vancouver Island teacher who an arbitrator found was falsely accused of sexually abusing a student has filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of British Columbia seeking damages against an investigator into the accusations.
The so-called “free range” children of Maryland parents, who made headlines late last year when they were called out for letting them walk a mile home unaccompanied, were taken into protective custody for several hours Sunday.
Three employees of the Department of Human Service's child welfare program are on paid administrative leave following the arrest of two foster parents on charges they did not provide adequate food or medical care to two young children.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and the Michigan Supreme Court are to blame for the child trafficking scheme being run successfully by our Michigan county courts and Child Protective Services.
Two Maryland children are back home after authorities opened yet another investigation into their parents for allowing the young children to walk home alone.
Note: Whoever made that call ought to be punched in the mouth and have their dialing finger broken. Mind your own business people! If you want to live in a world created by your own paranoia, don't force it upon everybody else.
When I try to grasp what Michelle and Isaiah Rider’s life has become over the past year I think of nightmares so horrible you make a conscious effort to wake yourself up. Tragically, there is no waking up from this. On March 11, an Illinois judge plunged this small family of two deeper into the dark world of Illinois’ Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).
One of the perennial complaints in Los Angeles County government — that child-welfare caseworkers carry crushing caseloads — might be eased if county supervisors approve a plan to accelerate one of the most aggressive rounds of hiring in county history.
The province plans on hiring new workers and trying to get kids out of care. But, some experts wonder if the province is able to fix a system they say is broken.
The new director of Arizona's child welfare agency outlined plans to stop assigning lower-priority cases despite condemning a similar practice while leading the agency's criminal investigation two years ago.
Vermont authorities issued a plea on Friday for information about the whereabouts of a missing teenager, who's presently in the custody of the Vermont Department of Children and Families.
Three years after joining forces to address the alarming use of psychotropic medications in California's foster care system, a high-level group of health care officials, attorneys and public policy leaders on Friday unveiled a sweeping set of guidelines for doctors who prescribe the powerful drugs to some of the state's most traumatized children.
A judge has denied a last-minute motion by Hunt County prosecutors to delay the trial of a former Child Protective Services caseworker after a witness came forward saying the investigator on the case intimidated and coerced her into making a false statement.
The Penn State Board of Trustees voted Thursday to settle legal claims with “one or more” persons abused by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
A Warren County family is suing the state's division of child protection and permanency for alleged unconstitutional home intrusion and civil rights violations, according to a press release issued by their attorney Kenneth Rosellini.
A foster parent who recently spoke out with concerns about Department of Children and Families decisions says she and her husband are giving up their license to be foster parents.
Under pressure from social conservative groups, the Florida House acted Wednesday to allow faith-based adoption agencies to deny adoptions to gay couples.
During those years, particularly during his time in Klamath Falls and Cottage Grove, he says, Olson saw children affected when their parents were arrested for criminal offenses.
A former department of social services supervisor who pleaded guilty last Tuesday to felony child abuse charges was released from the Union County Jail on Wednesday afternoon, with time already served.
For the first time in a year, a judge heard motions Wednesday in the case of Brandon Ross, a Bath man who claims he was falsely accused of child abuse.
Crystal Lynn Brown, 27, of 355 Maplewood Drive, Ambridge, was charged Tuesday with making false reports of child abuse and making false reports to law enforcement. Ellwood City police said Brown made an anonymous report that a woman living on First Avenue in Ellwood City was abusing two children.
At least two Department of Human Services workers have been disciplined for their inaction in the case of a 12-year-old Kentwood boy accused of stabbing a 9-year-old to death.
The first of several planned overhauls in the state’s child protection system would withhold some county dollars until caseworkers prove they can respond early and often to abuse reports, marking the first time such funding in Minnesota is performance-based.
A B.C. woman who suffered a fiery death in a supposed pagan ritual “gone horrifically wrong” was a former social worker who handled the case of three murdered children.
A former department of social services supervisor who pleaded guilty last Tuesday to felony child abuse charges is scheduled to be released from the Union County Jail on Wednesday, with time already served.
Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation Monday to put some new constraints on child welfare workers before they can remove a youngster from a home.
The new law which takes effect July 3 says a child cannot be taken unless the caseworker submits the reasons to his or her supervisor and the supervisor approves the removal.
Note: Only the most corrupt CPS agents get to be supervisors.
Los Angeles County officials are preparing to crack down on doctors who inappropriately prescribe powerful psychiatric drugs to foster youth and children in the juvenile delinquency system, according to a copy of the plans obtained by The Times.
Note: And we must do more to expose them for the frauds and lowlifes that they are.
I thought becoming a child protection caseworker would be an ideal way to achieve my calling. But I was quickly advised by those who have been there that Child Protective Services, or CPS, was where you worked "when you can't find a job anywhere else."
A woman, who can’t be identified because her grandchild is in the care of Sagkeeng Child and Family Services, says she will fast until the child is returned.
I knew you didn’t believe me. We faced each other in the exam room, my son’s blistering red arm between us, and I could tell. It was his third trip to the doctor in as many days, each time to see someone new. Our story had never changed.
Not so long ago, if foster children in Florida wanted to spend the night at a friend's house, the parents hosting the sleepover faced a criminal background check. Taking the kids on an out-of-state vacation required official permission from a state agency.
A bill sponsored by an Aroostook County legislator seeks to allow administrators of children’s homes or residential care facilities to search the backpacks or travel bags of the residents.
The federal court in Nevada has approved a $2.075 million settlement for seven former foster children who claimed they were injured while in Clark County’s child welfare system, the National Center for Youth Law announced Monday.
Spurred by the disclosure that a lawmaker transferred custody of children he had adopted to a family where one of the children was sexually abused, Arkansas' governor on Monday signed legislation barring the practice known as "re-homing."
Tens of thousands of children in Florida's child welfare system could be in danger of losing their homes if faith-based foster-care and adoption providers in Florida are not granted "conscience protection" by the legislators meeting in Florida's state capitol this month.
A Denver Human Services background check identified a convicted sex offender and a woman convicted of child abuse -- even so a DHS caseworker, backed by a supervisor, placed children with them.
A 15-year-old girl who was severely beaten while under the care of Manitoba Child and Family Services remains in a medically induced coma, with her family members by her side.
A series of images showing a nine-year-old boy suspected of being abused by his foster parents have gone viral after they were uploaded by a Weibo user on Friday evening.
Texas deputies stormed into a home with state Child Protective Services workers workers to seize an 18-month-old child last month, forcing the child’s pregnant mother into a counter before punching her at least twice in the back of the head.
THE number of overdue child protection investigations within the embattled Department of Children and Families has soared to more than 1300 in just six months.
THE Department of Children and Families refuses to explain how a girl in its care was allowed to regularly leave Yirra House to visit a drug home where she was ultimately raped.
While applying for her driver's license at age 16, Karen Hardenbrook saw her birth certificate and learned what her adoptive parents from Broken Bow never told her: she was born in Winnebago and her mother was a member of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska. As a baby, the state removed her from her biological grandmother's crowded home on the reservation.
Detention officers allegedly locked migrant mothers and children in a dark room, took away internet access, and threatened to take their children away from them after some went on a hunger strike to protest conditions at a Texas immigration detention center, according to lawyers and advocates. In a five-day strike that ended Saturday, about 78 women went on a hunger and work strike or acted in solidarity to demand better food and medical care, as well as their release from the Karnes Detention Center.
