The Department of Housing and Urban Development concluded a new proposal to evict illegal aliens from government-subsidized homes would send over 55,000 children out into the streets.
The proposal, which was first reported by The Daily Caller in April, is meant to tighten regulations surrounding federal subsidies for low-income housing.
More >> HUD SAYS TRUMP PLAN TO EVICT ILLEGALS COULD LEAVE 55,000 CHILDREN HOMELESS
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Showing posts with label homeless. Show all posts
Friday, May 10, 2019
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
‘It’s like a trap; it’s like they don’t want you to succeed’
For most youths experiencing homelessness, it’s the systems that are – on their surface – intended to protect them that can play a major role in their descent to the streets.
According to a 2016 report from the Homeless Hub, part of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, three in five Canadian youths going through homelessness have experience with the foster system.
More >> ‘It’s like a trap; it’s like they don’t want you to succeed’
According to a 2016 report from the Homeless Hub, part of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, three in five Canadian youths going through homelessness have experience with the foster system.
More >> ‘It’s like a trap; it’s like they don’t want you to succeed’
Monday, November 26, 2018
HUD Funding Helps Foster Children Reunite With Families
New Hampshire is getting nearly $600,000 in federal funding that will go toward helping reunite children in foster care with their families.
The $544,968 from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development was awarded to the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority. They will spend the funding on 64 vouchers for families whose housing problems contributed to them being separated from their children. The funding's offered through HUD's Family Unification Program. Among those targeted are young people found to be at risk of homelessness.
More >> HUD Funding Helps Foster Children Reunite With Families
The $544,968 from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development was awarded to the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority. They will spend the funding on 64 vouchers for families whose housing problems contributed to them being separated from their children. The funding's offered through HUD's Family Unification Program. Among those targeted are young people found to be at risk of homelessness.
More >> HUD Funding Helps Foster Children Reunite With Families
Sunday, October 07, 2018
Homeless Father Fighting To Get 5-Year-Old Son Back From CPS
A homeless father in Northern California is fighting to regain custody of his 5-year-old son after Child Protective Services caught wind of his living predicament.
Anthony Whigham and his son, Tsukiko (a.k.a “Suki”) were staying in a homeless encampment in Stockton, Calif., for several months. A snapshot of the boy went viral on Wednesday (Oct. 3) prompting community members, including Andreen Galindo, to offer to take the boy while his father went to work. Galindo took the boy with his father’s consent.
More >> Homeless Father Fighting To Get 5-Year-Old Son Back From CPS
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Was a thriving teen made homeless by Hillsborough's foster care system?
Travis Bailey, a star student at Armwood High School, was thriving in his home life when Hillsborough County's foster care system sent him back to live with his father in Maine under a judge's order, essentially making him homeless, his brother claims.
Adam Watson is Travis' half brother. They share the same mother, but have different fathers.
More >> Was a thriving teen made homeless by Hillsborough's foster care system?
Adam Watson is Travis' half brother. They share the same mother, but have different fathers.
More >> Was a thriving teen made homeless by Hillsborough's foster care system?
Thursday, April 12, 2018
How Australia’s Foster Care System Is Forcing Teenagers Into Homelessness
Across Australia on any given night, an MCG’s worth of people will experience the cruelty of homelessness. That’s close to 120,000 with nowhere to call home; sleeping rough on the streets, in boarding houses, couchsurfing, or packed into severely overcrowded dwellings.
Homelessness is terrifying no matter what walk of life or age you experience it. But it’s especially alarming to think that one of the largest growing groups without a roof over their head are young Australians under the age of 25, with those from Indigenous, migrant, and queer communities being most over-represented.
More >> How Australia’s Foster Care System Is Forcing Teenagers Into Homelessness
Homelessness is terrifying no matter what walk of life or age you experience it. But it’s especially alarming to think that one of the largest growing groups without a roof over their head are young Australians under the age of 25, with those from Indigenous, migrant, and queer communities being most over-represented.
More >> How Australia’s Foster Care System Is Forcing Teenagers Into Homelessness
Friday, April 06, 2018
Orphaned and homeless - Part 1 of 2
At the age of 14, an orphan listed in court documents as “J.M.” lived on the streets of Elgin for about four months, sleeping in abandoned cars, sheds and even a burnt-out home. On March 16, a jury awarded J.M., now 17, $150,000 in a judgment against the S.C. Department of Social Services (SCDSS) concluding that the agency’s negligent actions led to his ending up on the streets. The judgment came almost exactly two years after being filed in the Kershaw County Clerk of Court’s office in March 2016.
More >> Orphaned and homeless - Part 1 of 2
More >> Orphaned and homeless - Part 1 of 2
Monday, March 05, 2018
Vulnerable children forced into homelessness as local authorities routinely ignore child protection laws
Vulnerable children are being forced into homelessness because local authorities are routinely flouting child protection laws, lawyers and charities have warned.
Families with young children have been denied emergency accommodation by their local council and subsequently forced out onto the streets, spending nights in A&E waiting rooms, night buses and police stations.
More >> Vulnerable children forced into homelessness as local authorities routinely ignore child protection laws
Families with young children have been denied emergency accommodation by their local council and subsequently forced out onto the streets, spending nights in A&E waiting rooms, night buses and police stations.
More >> Vulnerable children forced into homelessness as local authorities routinely ignore child protection laws
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Editorial: Sacramento should limit unnecessary arrests for foster youth
Following a Chronicle investigation into the unnecessary arrests of traumatized children in California’s foster-care shelters and residential facilities, state Assemblyman Mike Gipson, D-Carson (Los Angeles County), introduced a bill last week that will set limits on this dangerous and destabilizing practice.
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Gipson’s AB2605 bill would create a three-year moratorium on law enforcement calls by foster-care facilities for non-emergency behavioral management situations.
More >> Editorial: Sacramento should limit unnecessary arrests for foster youth
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Gipson’s AB2605 bill would create a three-year moratorium on law enforcement calls by foster-care facilities for non-emergency behavioral management situations.
More >> Editorial: Sacramento should limit unnecessary arrests for foster youth
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
CPS is keeping me busy today - LK Report for 10/24/2017
A lawsuit that seeks improvements in Arizona's foster-care system will apply to all Arizona children in the system, now as well as in the future, a federal judge has ruled.
More >> Judge: All children in DCS care are now part of class-action lawsuit
Federal funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides health coverage for almost nine million children, ran out on Saturday night. Everyone in Congress knew the deadline was approaching. By all accounts, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of lawmakers even wanted to renew it. Yet it didn't happen.
More >> Republican incompetence has now put 9 million children in danger
TORONTO – The Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies has apologized for harm done to Indigenous children and families in the province.
More >> Ontario Children’s Aid Societies apologizes for harm done to Indigenous Peoples
OAKLAND — Attorneys for the family of a foster child who died after ingesting methamphetamine sued Alameda County on Monday, alleging that social workers should have removed the girl from the home two weeks earlier — after she swallowed the narcotic for the first time.
More >> Lawsuit: Foster child died after ingesting meth for second time
FLINT, MI -- Testimony from a former state epidemiologist is expected to continue Wednesday, Oct. 4, in the preliminary examination of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon.
More >> Michigan DHHS director back in court for manslaughter exam in Flint water case
The men, aged between 33 and 38 and mostly from Rotherham, are accused of offences including rape and indecent assault and bring the number charged under Operation Stovewood to 21.
More >> CHILD ABUSE CHARGESRotherham child abuse investigators charge 12 MORE men in connection with sexual exploitation of kids
Finding a home in Kelowna's tight rental market can be nearly impossible and for some families that lack of suitable housing means losing custody of their children.
More >> Children put in foster care after mother struggles to find rental home
A Christian girl removed from her Muslim foster parents has apparently said that she misses them, a court was told on Monday.
The five-year-old, who is now living with her grandmother, was placed into the family's care by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
More >> Christian girl 'misses' Muslim foster parents, court told
Kerri M. Raissian, an assistant professor of public policy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, conducts research focused on child and family policy, with an emphasis on understanding how polices affect fertility, family formation, and family violence. She previously spent 10 years working with children and families in the public and nonprofit sectors. Earlier this year, she and her colleague Lindsey Rose Bullinger of Indiana University, published their study, “Money matters: Does the minimum wage affect children maltreatment rates?” in Children and Youth Services Review. They found that a $1 increase in the minimum wage can result in a statistically significant 9.6 percent decline in child neglect reports. She spoke with UConn Today about the study.
More >> Adding $1 to Minimum Wage = Less Child Neglect
More >> Judge: All children in DCS care are now part of class-action lawsuit
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Federal funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides health coverage for almost nine million children, ran out on Saturday night. Everyone in Congress knew the deadline was approaching. By all accounts, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of lawmakers even wanted to renew it. Yet it didn't happen.
More >> Republican incompetence has now put 9 million children in danger
TORONTO – The Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies has apologized for harm done to Indigenous children and families in the province.
More >> Ontario Children’s Aid Societies apologizes for harm done to Indigenous Peoples
OAKLAND — Attorneys for the family of a foster child who died after ingesting methamphetamine sued Alameda County on Monday, alleging that social workers should have removed the girl from the home two weeks earlier — after she swallowed the narcotic for the first time.
More >> Lawsuit: Foster child died after ingesting meth for second time
FLINT, MI -- Testimony from a former state epidemiologist is expected to continue Wednesday, Oct. 4, in the preliminary examination of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon.
More >> Michigan DHHS director back in court for manslaughter exam in Flint water case
The men, aged between 33 and 38 and mostly from Rotherham, are accused of offences including rape and indecent assault and bring the number charged under Operation Stovewood to 21.
More >> CHILD ABUSE CHARGESRotherham child abuse investigators charge 12 MORE men in connection with sexual exploitation of kids
Finding a home in Kelowna's tight rental market can be nearly impossible and for some families that lack of suitable housing means losing custody of their children.
More >> Children put in foster care after mother struggles to find rental home
A Christian girl removed from her Muslim foster parents has apparently said that she misses them, a court was told on Monday.
The five-year-old, who is now living with her grandmother, was placed into the family's care by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
More >> Christian girl 'misses' Muslim foster parents, court told
Kerri M. Raissian, an assistant professor of public policy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, conducts research focused on child and family policy, with an emphasis on understanding how polices affect fertility, family formation, and family violence. She previously spent 10 years working with children and families in the public and nonprofit sectors. Earlier this year, she and her colleague Lindsey Rose Bullinger of Indiana University, published their study, “Money matters: Does the minimum wage affect children maltreatment rates?” in Children and Youth Services Review. They found that a $1 increase in the minimum wage can result in a statistically significant 9.6 percent decline in child neglect reports. She spoke with UConn Today about the study.
More >> Adding $1 to Minimum Wage = Less Child Neglect
A Tusla social worker has told the Disclosures Tribunal that she did not apologise to Garda Keith Harrison and his partner Marissa Simms for her dealings with their family.
More >> Tusla social worker denies claim she made apology to garda and partner
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ill. - At 5:45 p.m. on Friday, September 29th, 09/29/17, the Carroll County 911 Center received a request for medical assistance at 309 Hagar Ave. in Milledgeville, IL.
Police and ambulance were dispatched to the location.
Investigators found a 59-year-old female Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) investigator who had been at the location to check on the welfare of a child and had been assaulted by the child's father.
More >> DCFS worker beaten while checking on child
Note: Bummer.
CUMBERLAND, Ind. – A Cumberland man was arrested Saturday after he reportedly choked and hit his 12-year-old foster son.
Francis Bunten, 57, is now being charged with domestic battery resulting in bodily injury, a level 5 felony.
More >> Man charged with battery after allegedly choking, hitting foster son in Cumberland
Canada's Ontario province has passed legislation that allows the government to seize children from families that refuse to accept their child's chosen "gender identity" or "gender expression."
More >> New Ontario law allows removing children from foster parents who oppose gender switch
A mum whose son was taken from her into care says she wouldn't know him if she ran into him in the street.
Rachel is one of three mothers to share their heartbreaking stories as part of a new BBC programme.
More >> 'I wouldn't know my son if I saw him in the street': Mums speak of moment kids were taken off them into foster care
A Lee County woman was released on bond Monday afternoon, shortly after going before a judge for the first time in connection to the death of her foster son.
More >> Lee Co. foster mom charged in child death investigation out on bond
When Ofsted rated Gloucestershire’s children’s services as “inadequate” in June, the report was phrased in such blistering terms that councillors in the Conservative-led local authority reacted with shock, bewilderment, and fury.
More >> The Tory council that failed its children
The York County Office of Children, Youth and Families allegedly placed a boy in foster care with a convicted pedophile, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, Oct. 3.
More >> Lawsuit: York CYF placed boy in foster care with known pedophile
In a rare move, a 19-year-old abused in an Urbandale foster home for years has sued the state for negligence, saying she suffered physically and emotionally because the child welfare case was mishandled.
More >> A teen who was locked up and beaten sues Iowa for bungling her child-welfare case
A study has found a high number of women, who repeatedly appear before the family courts and lose many children into public care or adoption because of child protection concerns, have been in care themselves.
More >> Link between childhood in care and mums who have babies removed by the courts
- Tusla refutes allegation it did not investigate eight childhood sexual abuse notifications
- 'Sex offenders may be continuing to abuse children despite Tusla being told of their activities'
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ill. - At 5:45 p.m. on Friday, September 29th, 09/29/17, the Carroll County 911 Center received a request for medical assistance at 309 Hagar Ave. in Milledgeville, IL.
Police and ambulance were dispatched to the location.
Investigators found a 59-year-old female Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) investigator who had been at the location to check on the welfare of a child and had been assaulted by the child's father.
More >> DCFS worker beaten while checking on child
Note: Bummer.
CUMBERLAND, Ind. – A Cumberland man was arrested Saturday after he reportedly choked and hit his 12-year-old foster son.
Francis Bunten, 57, is now being charged with domestic battery resulting in bodily injury, a level 5 felony.
More >> Man charged with battery after allegedly choking, hitting foster son in Cumberland
Canada's Ontario province has passed legislation that allows the government to seize children from families that refuse to accept their child's chosen "gender identity" or "gender expression."
More >> New Ontario law allows removing children from foster parents who oppose gender switch
A mum whose son was taken from her into care says she wouldn't know him if she ran into him in the street.
Rachel is one of three mothers to share their heartbreaking stories as part of a new BBC programme.
More >> 'I wouldn't know my son if I saw him in the street': Mums speak of moment kids were taken off them into foster care
A Lee County woman was released on bond Monday afternoon, shortly after going before a judge for the first time in connection to the death of her foster son.
More >> Lee Co. foster mom charged in child death investigation out on bond
When Ofsted rated Gloucestershire’s children’s services as “inadequate” in June, the report was phrased in such blistering terms that councillors in the Conservative-led local authority reacted with shock, bewilderment, and fury.
More >> The Tory council that failed its children
The York County Office of Children, Youth and Families allegedly placed a boy in foster care with a convicted pedophile, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, Oct. 3.
More >> Lawsuit: York CYF placed boy in foster care with known pedophile
In a rare move, a 19-year-old abused in an Urbandale foster home for years has sued the state for negligence, saying she suffered physically and emotionally because the child welfare case was mishandled.
More >> A teen who was locked up and beaten sues Iowa for bungling her child-welfare case
A study has found a high number of women, who repeatedly appear before the family courts and lose many children into public care or adoption because of child protection concerns, have been in care themselves.
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
LK Report for 8/9/17 - A Drunk CPS Worker and More...
Here are today's headlines.
Check back later. You never know when I might update this post.
“Sierra” (we’re not using her real name to protect her privacy), is 19, a runaway and a mother of three. She spent years residing at various group homes and in and out of the juvenile detention system.
More >> Housing Challenges for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
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OTTAWA -- A first-of-its-kind study in Canada has painted a national picture of homeless youth and drawn a link to the foster care system that researchers say could be playing a more active role in keeping young people off the streets.
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Florida - It is heartbreaking to learn that yet a third child in our state's foster care system has ended her life by hanging herself within the last year. The tragedies of teens like Giulianna Ramos Bermudez, Lauryn Martin and Naika Venant show us that privatization of the child welfare system has done little to improve the welfare of Florida's children.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Tennessee Health Commissioner has suspended new admissions to the Cummings Foster Home in Memphis.
More >> Memphis foster group home cited by Tennessee Health Commission
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MANCHESTER, NH— The adoptive parents of two children who suffered terrible physical and sexual abuse while under the supervision of the state’s child protective services have taken the next step in their years long effort to shed light on the inner workings of the Division for Children, Youth and Families.
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Ireland - AN INDEPENDENT REVIEW of the case in which a 15-year-old girl in foster care took her own life has questioned whether social services fully understood the significance of separating her from her younger sibling.
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Michigan — Bill Johnson’s grandfather taught him how to shoot when he was just 9 years old, and gave him his first gun — a Mossberg 16-gauge, bolt-action shotgun — when he turned 14. When Mr. Johnson joined the Marines at 17, he was issued an assault rifle. And he has carried a concealed handgun, with a permit, for the past decade.
More >> Gun Rights and Foster Care Restrictions Collide in Michigan
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Ireland - Eight children and young people, the youngest just two weeks old, feature in the latest reviews which examine four suicides, one overdose, one accident and two deaths from natural causes. Those who died are given pseudonyms.
More >> Failings of care found in deaths of children
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NORMAN, Okla. - A routine welfare check takes a turn when police report the DHS employee arrived on the scene drunk.
More >> DHS employee arrested after arriving drunk to routine welfare check
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FORT WALTON BEACH — It takes commitment and patience to be an adoptive parent.
After two years, stacks of paperwork and countless home visits, Pam and Bruce Braseth are still waiting to become adoptive parents to two sisters they’ve been caring for in their home.
“I don’t think it could go any slower,” Pam said. “There are so many kids in our community that need families to give them a foundation. This has been stressful for everybody.”
More >> Parents wishing to adopt struggle with bureacracy, case backlogs
The poor things, I can only imagine what the real parents have been through.
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Youth leaving child welfare, former prisoners and mental patients struggling with homelessness
Adults leaving prison will join young adults leaving the child welfare system and those leaving mental health care in getting additional community support to live in the community.
More >> Youth leaving child welfare, former prisoners and mental patients struggling with homelessness
More >> Youth leaving child welfare, former prisoners and mental patients struggling with homelessness
Monday, February 13, 2017
From foster care to homelessness, local man shares his troubling story
For around 18 months in his early 20s, Daniel Rupert was homeless in Athens, living out of a large duffel bag, spending his days at Ohio University’s Alden Library and spending his nights in either a tucked-away part of the alley behind Chipotle, on the steps by Glidden Hall, or close to the outside heating vents near Alden.
More >> From foster care to homelessness, local man shares his troubling story
More >> From foster care to homelessness, local man shares his troubling story
Friday, December 23, 2016
Foster child needs 'better preparation' to age out
More than 1,000 teenagers age out of foster care each year in Texas, many of them damaged and unable to succeed as adults.
More >> Foster child needs 'better preparation' to age out
More >> Foster child needs 'better preparation' to age out
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Child Protective Services Steps in After Homeless Woman Gives Birth in Golden Gate Park
A homeless woman who gave birth in Golden Gate Park says Child Protective Services is stepping in to take her baby.
More >> Child Protective Services Steps in After Homeless Woman Gives Birth in Golden Gate Park
More >> Child Protective Services Steps in After Homeless Woman Gives Birth in Golden Gate Park
Monday, November 21, 2016
More than 1,200 kids live on Dallas streets, many from the foster system
Three dozen people clustered together around fire pits, wrapped in sleeping bags and sitting on folded cardboard boxes laid across a paved basketball court.
More >> More than 1,200 kids live on Dallas streets, many from the foster system
More >> More than 1,200 kids live on Dallas streets, many from the foster system
Saturday, October 15, 2016
A Hidden Crisis: The Pipeline from Foster Care to Homelessness for LGBTQ Youth
There are more than 400,000 youth in the American foster care system today, roughly that of the population of Sacramento, California. Foster care, created to protect the welfare of children, is a broken system, hobbled by an outdated bureaucracy, underfunded agencies, and overburdened workers frequently resulting in dire outcomes. Research shows that children placed in foster care are more likely to develop Post-traumatic Stress Disorder than veterans of war. In some states, youth are just as likely to be abused in foster care as they are in the home from which they were removed. Foster care has also become a gateway into homelessness. Nearly half of the youth experiencing homelessness today have had at least one placement in a foster home, or group home.
More >> A Hidden Crisis: The Pipeline from Foster Care to Homelessness for LGBTQ Youth
More >> A Hidden Crisis: The Pipeline from Foster Care to Homelessness for LGBTQ Youth
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Shut out? Homeless could be forced from Woodbridge camp
The action came after one of their neighbors allowed his adult daughter and her two preschool-aged children to stay at his makeshift cabin for several days during the summer, according to local homeless advocates and several campsite residents.
Although all are technically squatting on private land, reports of children living outside were enough to spur action from Prince William County social workers, who visited the campsite in August and called on the fire marshal to declare the structures unfit for habitation.
More >> Shut out? Homeless could be forced from Woodbridge camp
Although all are technically squatting on private land, reports of children living outside were enough to spur action from Prince William County social workers, who visited the campsite in August and called on the fire marshal to declare the structures unfit for habitation.
More >> Shut out? Homeless could be forced from Woodbridge camp
Friday, June 03, 2016
How Our Child-Welfare System Is Fostering the Homelessness Crisis
A recent study shows just more than 50 percent of homeless youth in Seattle have a history of foster care. Now efforts are afoot to make sure more kids under state supervision don’t end up on the streets.
More >> How Our Child-Welfare System Is Fostering the Homelessness Crisis
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Homelessness remains a problem for former foster care youth
John Callis spent two periods in foster care—when he
was a baby until he was adopted at age 3 and when he was 14 and
“uncontrollable.” He received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and his
strict adoptive father, a Marine, “didn’t want me home and it hurt …
’cause I loved my dad,” he said.
More >> Homelessness remains a problem for former foster care youth
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