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  2. Fillmore, Indiana - Wikipedia

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    Fillmore is a town in Marion Township, Putnam County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2] The population was 532 at the 2020 census . The town is part of the South Putnam Community Schools school district.

  3. Foster care in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2020, there were 407,493 children in foster care in the United States. [14] 45% were in non-relative foster homes, 34% were in relative foster homes, 6% in institutions, 4% in group homes, 4% on trial home visits (where the child returns home while under state supervision), 4% in pre-adoptive homes, 1% had run away, and 2% in supervised independent living. [14]

  4. Foster care - Wikipedia

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    Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home (residential child care community or treatment centre), or private home of a state-certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family member approved by the state. The placement of a "foster child" is normally arranged through the government or ...

  5. Indian Child Welfare Act - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA, enacted November 8, 1978 and codified at 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901–1963 [1]) is a United States federal law that governs jurisdiction over the removal of American Indian children from their families in custody, foster care, and adoption cases.

  6. List of Indiana placenames of Native American origin - Wikipedia

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    The primary Native American languages in Indiana are Miami-Illinois and Potawatomi; the largest number of place names on this list are from these two languages. Some place names are derived from other native languages, such as Kickapoo , Shawnee , and the Delaware languages Munsee and Unami .

  7. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  8. National Foster Care Month - Wikipedia

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    National Foster Care Month is supported and maintained by the Children's Bureau, [11] Children Welfare Information Gateway, [12] and their partners. In addition, the National Resource for Permanency and Family Connections, [13] [14] the National Foster Youth Institute, [15] the Casey Family Programs, [16] Foster Club, [17] and the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth.

  9. Residential child care community - Wikipedia

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    The other part of the debate is more financially motivated, as residential child care facilities are more costly than foster care, adoption, wrap-around services and kinship care. [17] Studies show that the foster system can cause and enforce mental issues, as every additional movement a child has to go through increases the probability of these.