The purpose of our paper is to review the findings of the DeWine Child Safety Summit from 2012 in light of Human Rights issues as they relate to young people in the Foster Care system in Ohio. We will begin by providing an overview of the characteristics and nature of Foster Care and how...
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Controlled evaluations have provided support for the clinical effectiveness of TFCO over the past several decades. Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of TFCO versus group care-as-usual in terms of decreases in DBD-related outcomes such as arrest rates, number days in detention centers, ...
Children in foster care who are newly placed with licensed or kinship caregivers are often vulnerable to increased behavior problems associated with trauma and social disruptions. When those issues are not addressed, children are susceptible to placement
The article focuses on the assistance provided by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) to children and youth in foster care to find permanent families for children and jobs for youth. It mentions that ODJFS has formed a partnership with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption...
This researcher mailed initial research packets to 117 public and private foster care agencies in Maryland, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. Results of the mailing yielded 56 phone contacts or individual meetings with agency directors. As a result of the initial contact, ...
In West Virginia, home of the highest overdose rates in the nation, the foster population has increased by 42 percent since 2014. The number of children in state or foster care hit a record low in Massachusetts earlier this decade. Since then, that number has risen by a quarter, and ther...
Ohio's opioid crisis is stretching the state's foster care system as more and more children are removed from the homes of their drug-addicted parents, leading to ballot requests Tuesday for more funding.
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 happen, and it’s not,” she said. “It’s finding out you lost your childre...
“Before, we were trying to keep kids from getting hurt…. We put them in a room and made sure nothing happened to them,” Mike Watson, an executive for a Florida foster care agency,said of previous foster care standards. “We don’t want supervisors. We want people to parent. We had...