Texas must reform system to help foster children

Texas’ foster care system is overworked and under-regulated, leading to thousands upon thousands of children who end up worse off for the system for the lack of proper care. The worst part of this vicious cycle is that this is not new — the system has been this way, despite constant reevaluations. Every year, it is decided that the entire system needs an overhaul, and it never happens.

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Foster Mum Found Guilty Of Toddler's Murder

A woman who battered a toddler to death months after she was made the child's legal guardian has been found guilty of murder.

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New Mexico bishops attack anti-child abuse push

New Mexico Catholic leaders are expressing skepticism about a new “Pull Together” state campaign aimed at tackling child abuse.

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Los Angeles County Stealing More Kids Than They Can Care For - A Foster Parent Recruitment Campaign

In Los Angeles County alone, thousands of children are in need of foster homes.

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Sex abuse probe will consider damage of false allegations

A probe into child sexual abuse by high profile figures will address the damage inflicted by false accusations made against innocent people.

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Judge hears Sandusky's petition on child sex abuse conviction

Jerry Sandusky, shackled and dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit, appeared in court on Monday in a bid to overturn his child sex abuse conviction, but the judge was skeptical about the former Penn State football coach's petition for a hearing.

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Texas Licenses Detention Center for Child Care, Despite Deficiencies

Texas has granted a temporary residential child care license to a controversial immigrant detention center, despite “deficiencies” uncovered in a recent inspection.

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• Texas Just Licensed A Controversial Immigration Detention Center As A Child Care Provider

7 CHILD WELFARE WORKERS IN PHILADELPHIA FIRED IN CONNECTION WITH 2 FALSE REPORTS ABOUT HOME VISITS, STATE OFFICIALS SAY

Seven child welfare workers in Philadelphia were fired in February and March in connection with two false reports about home visits, according to state officials.

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'State kidnappings': Norway's child care policy a nightmare for foreign parents

"The children are afraid when there's a knock at the door. They fear they'll be taken away again," says Jaquline tearfully in broken Norwegian, recounting her battles with Norway's child welfare services which have been accused of unduly tearing families apart.

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• Norway vows to change child welfare practices
• Child welfare or ‘state kidnapping’? Foreign parents face anguish in Norway

Seven child welfare workers fired for false reports

Seven child welfare workers in Philadelphia were fired in February and March in connection with two false reports about home visits, according to state officials.

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Former Penn State Coach Jerry Sandusky Appears in Court to Appeal Child Sex Abuse Conviction

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky appeared in a Pennsylvania courtroom today as he appeals his child-sex abuse conviction.

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• Jerry Sandusky back in court, seeking new trial on child sex abuse charges

It's national foster care month and the pro-CPS bullshit is flooding the news feeds

Note: Hold on to your lunch folks!

May is National Foster Care Month. I am very excited to do this article because on May 4, 2016, I will be presenting at the 27th Annual Foster Care and Adoption Conference in Albany, NY.

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FYI: I may post a few more links here later.  Know thy enemy.

One third of town's foster care children live outside of Warrington

AROUND a third of Warrington’s foster children are currently living outside of the town according to new figures.

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Lawmakers Wrangle Over Fix for ‘Broken’ Foster Care System

Lawmakers clashed this week over whether Texas’ disastrous foster care and child welfare system can be fixed with more funding and higher pay for caseworkers, or simply better management.

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Sixties Scoop adoptees want child welfare reforms, support

Indigenous people who were adopted during the Sixties Scoop rallied on Parliament Hill Friday in solidarity with other adoptees across Canada, and to put pressure on the federal government to reform the Indigenous child welfare system.

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Spencer man in legal battle to obtain biological son from adoptive family in Maryland

A man from Spencer who is the biological father to his 15-month-old son is in the middle of fighting for custody after the state courts allowed his baby boy to be adopted by a family in Maryland.  

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Egan: Mom battles to give daughter medical cannabis, fends off police, CAS

Motivated by love and desperation, an area mother is fighting an uphill battle to treat her daughter’s chronic illness with a special cannabis oil.

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4 young runaways found sneaking back into Florida facility

Four girls who apparently ran away from a facility for foster children near Tampa were found safe as they tried to sneak back onto the same property, authorities said Friday.

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Brandon woman charged with confining, threatening foster home staff members with scissors

Brandon police have charged an 18-year-old woman with forcible confinement after a frightening incident at a foster home.

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Half of kinship foster homes in R.I. are unlicensed

At least one out of every two kinship foster homes where children live after being taken from their families has been unlicensed since January 2014.

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Manitoba mom upset after dog mauls 5-year-old daughter at foster home

A mother from a Manitoba First Nation says she is distraught after her five-year-old daughter was mauled by a dog at the foster home she was placed in.

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VIEWPOINT: Texas’ child protection system failing our children

Texas is in the midst of a crisis that, if not addressed with the highest urgency, will create lasting damage for generations to come. Children removed from their homes are placed in a structurally unsound system that is meant to protect them, but in reality often subjects them to further trauma, abuse and neglect.

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Social worker 'failed' in duties

A ‘DISHONEST’ Leigh social worker has been struck off after being found guilty of misconduct.

Robert Burns made false claims about his working hours, failed to make regular visits to clients and gave false records while employed by Wigan Council.

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DCYF shortfalls are a national problem

When 10-year-old Nubia Barahona's lifeless body was found wrapped in a plastic garbage bag in the bed of her adoptive father's pickup truck in West Palm Beach, Fla., the public demanded answers.

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Are kids aging out of foster care driving Philly youth homeless surge?

In Philadelphia, youth homelessness seems to be on the rise.

But at a packed hearing devoted to the problem on Thursday, advocates and services providers told city council members the exact number of homeless young people is difficult to pin down.

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