“I’ve been doing this work for a long time and represented thousands and thousands of foster children, both in class-action lawsuits and individually, and I have almost never seen a child, boy or girl, who has been in ...
A. (2012). Overlooked and Unheard: Abuse of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and Their Experience With CPS and Foster Care. Family Journal, 20(4), 376- 383.Lomas, G.I., & Johnson, H.A. (2012). Overlooked and unheard: Abuse of children who are deaf or hard of hearing ...
The primary goal of CPS/DCFS is to ensure child safety while prioritizing family preservation whenever possible. Services provided range from emergency responses to allegations of abuse or neglect to long-term support like counseling and foster care placement when reunification with families is not fea...
Wells was taking the kids home to their foster families from a counseling session. Morrison says her children were removed from her care when she and her now ex-husband went through a difficult time and she moved to Ohio for cancer treatment. “I thought that was the worst thing that could...
When I called Senator Therese Murray in 1998 to ask how many children had died in foster care in Massachusetts, her aide replied: “We don’t have those statistics.” At that time Senator Murray was the Senate Chair of the Committee on Health & Elderly Affairs, and therefore responsible to...
The girls were later put in foster care. Kendall Hardwick’s lawsuit also accuses Vreeken of repeatedly lying in court reports and on the stand to thwart Fogarty-Hardwick’s attempts to regain custody of her daughters. In a March 31, 2000 letter, a therapist wrote to the agency that “Kend...
A man who adopted nine boys from foster care is now accused of sexually abusing at least one of them after the teen called a podcast show, making an outcry of what allegedly was happening to him and his brothers, according to court documents. ...
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CPS, as we as we all may know, is a hero for all children in-need. CPS workers are protective and helpful. In fact, when I was a young child, I was hurt and abused by my mother, CPS saved me from my mother and gave my grandmother guardianship over me. Before the age of thirte...
How Michigan plans to address racial disparities in foster care systemRead full article: How Michigan plans to address racial disparities in foster care system There is an over-representation of children of color in the foster care system in Michigan and a task force is making recommendations to ...