Dec 12, 2024 · For four in 10 youth who are placed in congregate care, Stumler cites, there is no clinical need for them to live in a group facility. And “research consistently shows that children fare best in families, not facilities.”

According to a March report released by NYC Family Policy Project, half of all hotline calls nationwide are “screened out,” or determined to fall short of requiring a CPS visit. But in New York State, 75% of calls are passed along to local child welfare agencies for investigation. The majority of those calls — almost 80% in New York City alone — turned out to be unfounded or false ...

Dec 24, 2024 · Illustration by Christine Ongjoco. Near the end of 2023, The Imprint’s Michael Fitzgerald broke the story that the federal government had frozen a primary source of funding to the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) national association — a nonprofit overseeing volunteer groups for foster kids — following an examination of its financial practices.

Dec 18, 2024 · In 2024, for the first time, a few states moved toward establishing an expectation of active efforts for most or all of the children and families involved with child welfare cases. The highest profile of these laws was the Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionately Act, a long-sought piece of legislation in Minnesota aimed at …

On this Headlines edition of The Imprint Weekly Podcast, we stick with Capitol Hill where a lot went down around the holidays. We discuss the arrest of a former foster youth and advocate arrested after a celebration of the Chafee Act, along with some child welfare legislation that made it into law (and one bill that did not).

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01/13/2025. Headlines: The Arrest of James McIntyre, “New” Data on Trying Kids as Adults, and More. On this Headlines edition of The Imprint Weekly Podcast, we stick with Capitol Hill where a lot went down around the holidays.

Mar 6, 2024 · Smith, of the ICWA Law Center, said the latest attempt at an equal protection argument represents yet another threat to ICWA. But while her direct knowledge of the case is limited, she also questions whether the foster parents will …

Jun 8, 2023 · Now, 17 years after her mother’s death, some answers that have long remained elusive may emerge. St. Mary’s shut down in 1927 with few accessible records left behind, but it now appears on a first-of-its-kind list of Catholic-run boarding schools for Native children.. The recently published online database provides vital breadcrumbs of information for survivors and …

Senators John Cornyn and Jon Ossoff want more attention paid to the informal diversion of kids from foster care. Legislation now before Congress seeks better accounting of “hidden foster care” — a widespread but poorly regulated practice relied upon by child welfare agencies to shuffle kids out of their parents’ homes without court oversight.