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They are the result of cuts made to the child welfare system by then-Gov. Paul LePage at a time when the opioid crisis, and the lack of mental health and substance abuse services, were causing an ...
The Best of Reason: Child Welfare Systems Are Trapping Innocent Families. It wasn't long before Jennifer Williams noticed there was something unusual about the two young girls she was fostering ...
Many children who come to the attention of the child welfare system do so because of situations which are often referred to as child abuse. Abuse typically involves abuse of power, or exercising power for an unintended purpose. [46] [47] This includes willful neglect, knowingly not exercising a power for the purpose for which it was intended ...
Jan. 22—New data reaffirms what families, advocates and policymakers long have known: It's hard to be a kid in New Mexico. The nonprofit New Mexico Voices for Children on Monday released its ...
The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (AACWA) was enacted by the US Government on June 17, 1980. Its purpose is to establish a program of adoption assistance; strengthen the program of foster care assistance for needy and dependent children; and improve the child welfare, social services, and aid to families with dependent children programs.
The systemic factors measured by the CFSRs include the effectiveness of the State's systems for child welfare information, case review, and quality assurance; training of child welfare staff, parents, and other stakeholders; the services that support children and families; the agency's responsiveness to the community; and foster and adoptive ...
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]
In 2003, CAPTA was amended by the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003 (P.L. 108–36,), [11] which amended Title I and replaced Title II, Community-Based Family Resource and Support Program with Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.