State foster care system greatly improvedDawn Miller
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 some who are in the system. As of Feb...
Joseph “Jody” Hughes, assistant solicitor general under Paxton, told the judges it would be impossible to put each foster child into a home to receive individualized care, because there are so many thousands [of] children in need of the system and “not ev...
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...
On their own: The experiences of youth after foster care This study used multiple means to identify 55 young adults who had left foster care in recent years. The young adults who had all emancipated from foster care under the auspices of social services were most often identified by former fo...
Contact: Sarah Oldmixon Policy Analyst Social, Economic, and Workforce Programs 202/624-7822 January 2007Most youth who leave the foster care system do not receive adequate preparation and support for their transition to independent living. Compared to other youth, foster youth are more likely to ...
Growing up, my family was able to provide safe homes to eight children in the foster care system throughout the years. However, this impact barely scratches the surface in changing the dynamics of our broken foster care system today.
TOPEKA — Two separate audits of the Kansas foster care system have found troubling trends in child welfare. A federal review found the state struggles to ens
Connecting our communities and empowering families will strengthen Florida's children and prevent them from ever entering into foster care as a result of child abuse, abandonment and neglect. If in this we fail, we must make certain that a child's time in our foster care system is as ...
Whilst it is true that all lesbian and gay parenting is, in some way or another, circumscribed by state practices and relations, this is particularly apparent in the fields of foster care and adoption, since these usually require some formal assessment of parenting ability/potential by social wel...