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While the framework driving current policy requires we reduce all differences in Black/White CPS report rates, a true equity perspective requires something very different—that we match protective service provision with risk. So long as different races have different levels of vulnerability to child ma...
Reality check to this article, the very idea that child protective services is not in it for money or dividing families is a laugh it’s like saying police don’t create money for the state by pulling you over and issuing you a ticket. The truth be told DCF or CPS does want to divid...
And“that is a problem”, says Maryland's child protective services agency. And this incident has restarted a debate in the US about the amount of independence parents should give their children. Some people object to courts telling parents how to raise their children. They also think children...
4 Forty-eight states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands mandate that professionals who have contact with children report suspected child maltreatment to Child Protective Services (CPS).6 An estimated 3.4 million children...
If you suspect abuse or neglect, call the New York State Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment:1-800-342-3720(call311in NYC). They will notify the localChild Protective Services, which is part of the county Department of Social Services. CPS will investigate and act to protect th...
By the time students reach third grade, approximately 18% will have been associated with a formal Child Protective Services (CPS) investigation (Ryan et al., 2018). Children associated with maltreatment investigations have significantly worse test scores (Fry et al., 2017; Tessier et al., 2018...
Font, S. A., Berger, L. M., & Slack, K. S. (2012). Examining racial disproportionality in child protective services case decisions.Children and Youth Services Review,34(11), 2188–2200.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.07.012 ...
Building Solutions in Child Protective Services How does one change the attitudes and practices of child protective services (CPS) a statewide bureaucracy often overwhelmed and understaffed? First, take an outsider to the system, Insoo Kim Berg, who has a vision and a solution-focused... IK Berg...
byUniversity of Washington Medicaid Expansion Status by State as of December 31, 2016. Data from Kaiser Family Foundation. Credit: JAMA More than 4 million reports of child maltreatment involving about 7.5 million children were made in 2017 to Child Protective Services. While much work has been ...