Federal Lawsuit Claims South Carolina Foster Care System Harms Children.The suit says the state's Department of Social Services is "re-victimizing the very children it is charged to protect"BerensonTessaTime.com
AIDS: The Federal government recently passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (AFSA), amending the Adoption and Assistance Act of 1980. The earlier law provided financial incentives to prevent foster care placement, and tried to preserve or reunite families as much as possible. The new...
It took just one day for Texas to appeal a federal judge's ruling concerning the state's foster care system. A federal judge is fining the state $100,000 a day for contempt and neglecting to adequately investigate allegations of abuse against s
P.L. 100-654 set forth provisions regarding OPM's to impose debarment and other sanctions on health care providers convicted of illegal activities, including financial misconduct; neglect or abuse of patients; the unlawful manufacture, distribution, or dispensing of a controlled substance; and interf...
They do so via emancipation, which simply means that they have reached the state's age of adulthood and are being cut off from foster care with no further aid. Most teenagers in this situation have spent an average of two and a half years in foster care living with relatives or foster ...
Child Welfare: Health Care Needs of Children in Foster Care and Related Federal Issues [November 19. 2014] B Fernandez,AL Fernandesalcantara,E Baumrucker,... 被引量: 1发表: 2014年 Special health care needs among children in the child welfare system. The aim of this study was to determine...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court was asked Monday to reconsider its decision to overturn an expensive contempt finding and remove a district judge from a lawsuit over conditions within Texas' struggling foster care system.
Every year, more than 20,000 teenagers age out of the foster care system. Within four years, about 5,000 of them are homeless.
Gov. Greg Abbott for the first time has pledged that Texas will do "exactly" what a federal judge presiding over a foster care lawsuit has ordered and that he...
summary report of workplace flexibilities and work-life policies required by sections 4 and 5 of my memorandum of June 23, 2014, agencies shall make necessary changes to their policies and practices to ensure that employees experiencing the birth or adoption of a child, foster careplacement in ...