Foster Parents [Archive] - Page 12

Ken Schram: The DSHS /CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES needs to go!
Regional Op-Ed | JoAnn Chartier: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid
Child Strangled to Death: CPS conducted an investigation at thehome 14 months ago -- and found the situation was not dangerous.
Settlement in case of infant injured in Ore. foster home
Ex-caseworker for CPS is jailed...
|FOR SALE| Your Children: More than '60% of toddlers in care get
Hamilton Cty IN NonCustodial Parents ClassAction Lawsuit....
Family Attorney Blows the Whistle on State Child Protective Services
Nevada's Child welfare gets a checkup!
An uncertain fate for some in DCYF care
Toddler's death at center of lawsuit over R.I. foster care: "T.J.is the worst that can happen in terms of a child dying," she said. "But thereare still little horrors happening."
This is Child Protection?
Families Separated by the State
Families Separated by the State
This is Child Protection?
Good to know
CPS BENEFICIARY sees opposition as SPAM
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Re: KANE Greatest CUBA EXPERT!!!!!!! Kanes claims RE transportatin in Cuba
Re: Advocacy group announces free accreditation initiative
Nationwide Protest Against Child Protective Services Planned ForNext Month
Foster care, orphanages doing more harm than good for children
DCF Vs. Parents: Unfair Tactics?: Judge's Rebuke Of Agency WorkerRenews Concerns About Child Welfare Cases
Former foster mom enters Alford plea in child death: foster mothercharged in the starvation death of her adopted son...
Texas hides its child protection failures behind the Child AbusePrevention and Treatment Act.
Britney Spears Stalker Calls Child Protective Services?
Special-needs foster family disintegrates....
Texas, Four Feet Under: Hidden stories of child abuse: a child diedevery three weeks in Texas in 2005.
RE: Nationwide Protest Against Child Protective Services Planned
Having many special-needs kids can weigh on family, marriage...
Re: Having many special-needs kids can weigh on family, marriage:Comments....
Firing of a Division of Youth and Family Services trainee who helda lit cigarette lighter in front of a child's face...
Child prostitution has become “an epidemic” in Oakland, CA partly because of the many foster care and group homes that are located there and pimps recruit girls at such facilities.
Maryland, Family ties: A study showing that keeping children athome, even if there are problems, is better than putting them in foster care...
Colorado State foster-parent system assailed....
Fort Worth woman sues Texas Child Protective Services for daughter'sdeath
Re: Dons/d'geezers delirious kook out
Child welfare system needs dose of sanity By RICHARD WEXLER
Tucson Arizona: New details from CPS: Williams and Payne cases
Child Welfare Agencies in denial as children pay price of panic byRichard Wexler
Missing-child report pins bulk of blame on The Florida Departmentof Children and Families
Tucson legislators divided over closing of hearings on CHILD PROTECTIVESERVICES
lawsuit alleges that the Department of Children, Youth and Familieshas repeatedly placed children in dangerous situations...
Tucson, Arizona New questions arise on CPS " CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES"ties to slain children...
1 Cuban girl in exile, 2 dads....
Rhode Island Committee Addresses Foster Care Lawsuit...
PALESTINE, Texas: Soldier, Father Charged In Foster Care Investigation
Spokane, Washington: In a plea deal that's drawn anger and criticismwoman who originally faced murder charges for the death of her adopted sonwill likely be sentenced to just six years behind bars.
Cops: Fla. Woman Kept 9 Handcuffed At Home,5 Foster Children, 4 AdultsWere Malnourished And Handcuffed Together, Police Say...
Arizona: CPS e-mails raise new questions in handling of 2 young siblings...
Tucson Arizona: Child Protective Services lifts cone of silence inchildren's murder....
Nurse gives up foster care license accused of puncturing a 1-year-oldchild's eye with a sharp object & running scalding bath water over a severelyhandicapped 12-year-old boy's legs.
Foster Children Do Not Receive Adequate Health Care: Seattle pediatricianAbraham Bergman called the foster care system "state-sponsored child abuse,"
MAGIC TRICKS
Re: Fmr Prez of American Academy of Child Psychiatry arrested for molesting children
My Day in Court
Child Protective Services: Playing Fair With Families?
PHOENIX Arizona Objection to releasing slain kids' files ends...
Media goes to court to get full disclosure from CPS: More informationwill soon be released on the three murdered Tucson children with ties toChild Protective Services.
Texas, Four Feet Under: Failing our children: Gravedigger Andy Campagets angry when he has to open the ground for a child who died because ofabuse or neglect.
Community must help protect children: Why do we as a society waituntil a child has been abused or neglected before we take action?
Another DSHS Failure?: It took 10 years for the state of Washingtonto decide Chornice Lewis was an unfit foster mother.
AUSTIN — Texas: Reports detail abuse at Texas facilities,Records show mentally retarded children and adults were pushed, hit, kicked by staffers...
Parents: Playing Fair With Children?
Re: Parents: Playing Fair With Children?
TACOMA, Wash: woman and her husband spent three years repeatedlyabusing and torturing her step grandson despite repeated reports of abuseto Child Protective Services...
Texas --- Orphaned, The most troubled kids get short shrift in statecare
Nebraska and Iowa both ranked among the worst for the numbers ofchildren placed in foster care and left at risk of growing up without permanentfamily connections.
The United States must declare the child to be the most precioustreasure of the people.
Children on verge of foster care tend to do better when left withown families, study says...
BALTIMORE - Maryland : Child advocates: State must do better forkids
BOSTON -- House committee to file child abuse legislation..
Palm Beach, Florida : woman accused of raising five teenagers inher home while starving them, forcing them to sleep on the floor and at timesbinding them with handcuffs and zip-ties..
The Miami Herald: The custody battle over a 4-year-old Cuban girlis filled with unusual circumstances.
DYFS clips the wings of a boy's guardian angel
SEATTLE, WA - How bad are things at DSHS?
California, Senator Barbara Boxer: We need to create better futures
A hard look at the inside the Department of Children, Youth and Families?
Arizona: Here's an interesting statement to the House Committee onways and means...
Tucson, Arizona: Answers sought when children aren't protected, Releasingrecords provides insight into the workings of child welfare...
Toughen public scrutiny of private foster care...
For 16-year-old Ollie, the past is a blur. Since becoming a wardof the state 12 years ago, he's moved from foster home to foster home, familyto family, group home to group home.
Tucson, Arizona: Judge orders CPS to release case files on 3 Tucsonchildren The judge said information CPS wanted to remove from the files wouldmake the records "practically meaningless to even the brightest journalist."
Slain woman's life held tragedy: Child Protective Services?
U.S.-born kids were in foster care as parents fought deportation,A Honduran mother feared for her U.S.-born children after Florida authoritiesseized them when she and her husband were arrested due to a deportation order.
Excerpt: Adoption Forensics & Joel Rifkin
Firemonkey shoots blanks!
Tucson, Arizona: CPS e-mails raise new questions in handling of2 young siblings, Many of the documents shows Child Protective Services preoccupationwith the media...
Choosing Foster Parents over Fathers: a San Diego father and daughterwere needlessly separated by the foster care system for over a decade.
Just A Fraction
Fantastic parenting support!!!
A Call For Change,by Joseph Sarandos...
Miami-Dade, FL Police say man abused two foster kids
60% of foster care children end up in jail or mental health institutions.
Houston, TX A failure to protect kids
Former foster-parent association president guilty of molesting 2boys
Tucson, Arizona | CPS case files provide timeline of its effortson behalf of 3 children
Family attorney Gregory Hession blows the whistle on state childprotective services agencies
Trust funds set up for girl authorities say was partially blindedwith hypodermic needles while in state-licensed foster care.
Trial begins for Spokane man charged in toddler's death
CPS case records released in deaths of 2 children | "Clearly we haveissues with the Tucson sector of CPS," said Rep. Kirk Adams..
Child Protective Services safety plan put child in danger, policesay..
CPS? Who's getting what? Who knows?: finding out just how many parentsget that assistance from DSHS and its vendors is going to be a tough one...
Social workers won't be charged, But Hardin grand jury chides child-welfareemployees
Phoenix Arizona: Hold CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES responsible forfailing Ariz. kids, Gov. Janet Napolitano needs to take immediate actionagainst this agency....
A grand jury blasted the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Servicesfor not disciplining state CPS social workers for "serious acts of misconduct"against families whose children they removed.
DCF pulls plug on computer system `fiasco'
Arizona Judge orders Child Protective Services to disclose more information....
Cochise County Arizona: PARALEGAL SUES CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES,LOCAL, STATE GOVT FOR $50 MILLION
SEATTLE WA- Robin Arnold-Williams is scrambling.
Dems request special foster care committee:Saying that a recent rape of an 8-year-old child in Dade County foster care and the disappearance of a Pinellas County foster care child were “preventable,”....
TACOMA, Wash. - A man charged with kidnapping, raping and killinga 12-year-old girl was referred to CPS By law enforcement officers in 2004,CPS Did Nothing!
Fake names helped mom adopt 11 New York children: welfare agency:received $1.26 million in stipends to help care for the kids, Authoritiesin Florida, however, say she received up to $2 million in payments from NewYork City.
Florida Lawmakers seek more oversight of DCF
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Woman accused in adoption scam got 8 kids in4 months from NYC...
The 'Emancipation' of Foster Youth: disturbing percentages of fostercare youth who graduate from the system at age 18 face increased homelessness,unemployment and incarceration...
CPS home removals decrease; critics question accountability...
Florida, Foster care inquiry sought: Andrea Moore said "It's clearFlorida children are not being protected in our child protection system,"
PROVIDENCE Rhode Island: Oversight of children is set for review...
Olympia WA: DSHS Unfixable 'system' must be replaced...
Maryland State launches foster care reform..
Washington: Child Protective Services needs an overhaul...
Pull incompetents off the child-protection beat
Tucson Citizen: Our Opinion: CPS records show agency failed threeTucson kids
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Tucson Citizen: Our Opinion: CPS records show agency failed threeTucson kids
Arizona: Lawmakers consider opening CPS hearings...
PORT ST. LUCIE Complaints date back to 1999 in PSL abuse case: awoman told police Judith Leekin turned over 11 children for her to take careof...
TAMPA, FL: Panel Will Look At Ways To Improve Child Welfare Statewide.
Clearer state rules on abuse ordered
CYF sworn to secrecy in child welfare cases: Ever since Rachel Boothwas charged with killing her father, the public has questioned why no onedid anything to protect the 13-year-old girl..
Arizona Burying the CPS story
Preventing tragedy Tougher oversight is needed for Florida's fostercare system
Dying in silence: The recovering drug addicts were told in early2003 they needed to take their 22-month-old daughter back to their crampedmotel room or risk losing the girl to the child welfare system forever.
Political Notebook by Daniel Scarpinato : Comparing CPS errors totypos draws ire
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Feds knew about TYC abuse cases: For four years, U.S. Justice Department
Hearings on 3 dead Tucson arizona kids public?: PHOENIX AZ- Statelawmakers examining the effectiveness of Child Protective Services
Indiana’s Child Protective Services makes reforms....
GRANBURY, Texas – :Frustrated foster parents giving up Embattled system losing homes as tensions rise over state rules that defy common sense!...
Florida works to approve $1.3M settlement for woman who was rapedand impregnated by her foster father when she was a teenager.
Parents get 3 years in son's death: Two months before the boy died,a caseworker from the state's Division of Youth and Family Services visitedthe home, but took no action.
Court deems mother fit to care for 4-year-old daughter: "Parentsare entitled to have their children unless they are unfit," said DeputyPublic Defender Beatrix Shear
DCF will stress Cuban father's consent
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Child Protective Services and Racism: Employee, employer claim racismfueled DCYF complaint....
Court fight over Mich. foster care system set for Tuesday
Boys Removed From Home Petition Court to Leave Foster Care...
For children's sake, CPS must change its ways
CHILDREN'S WATCHDOG FOR STATE SPEAKS OUT: says foster care and juvenilejustice shouldn't be a revolving door.
When kids who grow up in foster care "become adults," they’re more likely than their peers with family support to be homeless, get in trouble with the law and suffer from substance abuse or mental health problems.
DCF Official Outraged At Alleged Foster Home Rape Politician WantsTo Reform DCF's Foster Care
FRONTLINE- FAILURE TO PROTECT: foster care statistics
foster care statistics: Casey Family Programs National Center forResource Family Support
Foster care Time for Reform: Aging Out and On Their Own, May 2007
The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, WadeHorn of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologistwho says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blownup.
Kane / Ron, Attention!
Child protection in Florida falters
FOSTER CARE FINDING A PERMANENT SOLUTION: youth in the United Statesare doing better ["Report on children has some good news"]. There is onesub-group of teens who are doing far worse than they have done in previousyears. That sub-group is
Days before his 13-year-old girlfriend gave birth to a daughter inOctober, then 17-year-old Blake Blythe doused himself in charcoal lighterfluid and lit a match, They were both foster children.
Foster Kids try to reunite with parents: "Being in foster care isnot that fun."
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Another child slips through the cracks
Florida woman accused in adoption scam lied to authorities
Friend claims suspect in abuse case in PSL tried to make her an accomplice
Re: KEN IS RUINING LIFES
Study: Foster care system flawed
School, DCFS stonewall on blind girl's death
The Killing of a Journalist: Yusuf Bey raped and sodomized at leastfour young girls, including his own foster daughter. Officials with the county'sChild Protective Services knew all about it, but did nothing.
The Killing of a Journalist: Yusuf Bey raped and sodomized at leastfour young girls, including his own foster daughter. Officials with the county'sChild Protective Services knew all about it, but did nothing.
Arizona-Nearly four years after governor Janet Napolitano pushedreforms at Child Protective Services, the ghosts of murdered children hauntthe agency.
Los Angeles County CA, the Department of Children and Family Serviceshas misspent millions of dollars on unnecessary and overpriced supplies...
Study: Foster care system in S. Florida is flawed
After aging out of foster care, over 50 percent of former fosteryouth are unemployed, 40 percent are homeless, and 20 percent will be incarcerated.
Fostering My Own Family: At the age of 11, I made a promise to myselfthat I wasn't going to be a teen parent.
Court fight over Mich. foster care system set for Tuesday
Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleeen Blatz, who has stated that,"ninetypercent of the children in our juvenile justice system have come, throughchild protection."
Suffering from mistakes?
Michigan is making orphans out of too many children.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — They were often handcuffed, tethered together with plastic ties and allowed to soil themselves, investigators say. They had scars on their wrists. Some had burns.
The grandmother of six children who were abducted by their motherand her husband blamed the tragic situation on the city's Administrationfor Children's Services.
A handful of foster care parents and their children gathered Wednesdayoutside the Capitol to protest legislation that would hand 20 percent moreof Michigan's foster care system to the private sector.
Arizona-Maricopa County: Child Protective Services ordered to pay$1.5 million in boy's death...
Agency Failed in Probing Child Abuse
Studied to death
Governor Janet Napolitano releases her first report on status ofchildren in Arizona
BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) - A hearing is scheduled in southwest Ohio thisafternoon to decide who'll get custody of David and Liz Carroll's four children.
UK, Mother tells how her daughter, 14, was lured into abusersâ€™ clutches
UK, -Mother tells how her daughter, 14, was lured into abusersâ€™ clutches
UK- If it had been white guys, it would have been reported sooner’
A mother said she wanted help controlling her 14-year-old fosterchild. Ten minutes later, the boy was dead.
Experts: DCF stretching law to keep girl from Cuban dad
A new level of scammer for child welfare police
Documents: Fla. Mom Cashed in Insurance
SPOKANE --Washington State officials answer to latest foster childdeath
The neglect at ACS--: In a span of 10 months, 11 children died as a result of alleged abuse and neglect. They were under the watch of the Administration for Children’s Services
Abused Baby's Family: DCS Ignored Our Warnings About Violent Dad
Incompetent oversight: Los Angeles County's Department of Childrenand Family Services, the number of slayings of abused children more thantripled.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the city's childwelfare commissioner on Friday, a day after a damning report concluded 10children had died as a result of the agency's inept investigations.
Arizona: Boy's death must stir reform at CPS "CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES"
Child welfare agency disasters ripped
Expediency's offspring: the failures of Child Protective Services(CPS).
How accountable will DSHS hold itself?
Fatal failings at ACS: ditorial,,Eleven abused youngsters who diedunder the noses of their child-protective caseworkers were victims of a dysfunctionalsystem far worse than anyone imagined.
Tragic end for foster child: Edmonton social worker Briana Olsensays many youth in foster care end up living on the streets and die tragicdeaths.
The Family Law AniMatrix (for the kids)
The Family Law AniMatrix (for the kids)
Arizona: CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES violates own contact policy
Child-welfare agency must change course: department trusted withchildren's lives can't even be trusted with office supplies.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ state officials to address the disproportionatelyhigh number of black and Hispanic kids in foster care.
Bail set in death of 1-year-old: 'Mad' baby-sitter threw childtwice, The Department of Children and Family Services had an unfounded investigationof abuse against mother in February.
Ismael Ahmed has been named director of the Michigan Department of
CPS sued in federal court over child's death in foster care
Hospital stun-guns dad with newborn: Now baby girl suffers from headtrauma because she was dropped.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Problems with a new computer system that trackschildren in foster care have local officials scrambling to make sure childrenare being checked on properly.
Michigan- Don't spend foster funds fighting Law suit
Florida--Lawmakers urge hearings on DCF: recent scandals at the state'slong-troubled child welfare agency, including the recent rape of a Miamifoster girl.
[YOUR CHILDREN] USED AS LAB ANIMALS: Can You Imagine: When evenThe Angels Cry?
Human services' inspector general calling it quits: Several lawmakerswho oversee human services praised Flood's work, with a Democrat accusingthe GOP governor of punishing Flood for unveiling CPS troubles.
Arizona-WELL SAID: Ken Deibert, who heads Arizonas up Child ProtectiveServices complained. "In the future I don't want any communication goingout under my name to be released without my review."
Foster kids suffer at release, bar says System leaves many withoutnecessary support network, skills...
TAMPA - Florida Foster mom tells tale of death: She came beforea state task force to plead for better child protection.
Las Vegas NV, I-Team: Yvonne Gates' Grandchild in Child EndangermentInvestigation...
Tucson, Arizona: Payne kids' mother seeks $12 million in their deaths...
Re: Blow-by-blow account of Brothers to the Rescue tragedy
ANOTHER PERVERT FOSTIE charged with raping children
Man gets 22 years in prison for beating foster child to death
Family wishes for an apology, Couple still angry about when childrenwere taken from them
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) : Police: Adopted children tormented foryears, Investigators say scam stretched from NYC to Fla.
Lifetime of trouble ends with a shotgun blast
A mother’s fears confirmed about her daughter: CPS - “If the calls were saying the girl was being raped repeatedly and the parents can’t keep her from being raped, then we would have responded immediately.”
OHIO FOSTER-CARE COMPUTER, Glitch could 'lose' kids, State promisinga fix but won't halt transition...
Phoenix-Arizona, Mother given second shot at son: This week's candidate
Children under Child Protective Services' supervision have been beaten,tortured, starved and even killed - despite repeated warnings from teachers,neighbors and law enforcement officers.
Judge orders Michigan to release documents in foster care case
Mom's discipline not abuse, Isle judges rule: The Hawai'i Supreme
Why are the steps of the state capitol not filled with angry mothersand fathers demanding accountability by the Legislature, the governor andthe leaders of the state Department of Social and Health Services?
Ignoring the obvious
Bon Air inmate accused of rape, Held in juvenile center, he is charged
A child care group today assailed Arizona’s child welfare system, saying it is in a “state of perennial panic.”
Tucson, Arizona: Child-removal policy is criticized, Advocate Richard
Arizona appears poised to repeat CPS mistakes: Four days after shefirst took office, Gov. Janet Napolitano made a mistake that has hauntedthe state's vulnerable children ever since.
Tucson AZ Critics want CPS records open to public
Tussle, tussle, boil and fussle over DSHS: editorial: SHUT THEDAMN ANGENCY DOWN, THROW THE LIEING, CHEATING, DEFRAUDING, CORRUPTED, ABUSIVE,SOCIAL WORKERS IN JAIL WHERE THEY BELONG....
Las Vegas NV, I-Team: Inaction by Child Protective Services in Caseof 2 Young Girls Diagnosed With STD....
PHOENIX Arizonas in a state of "perennial panic," endangering childreneven as it needlessly destroys thousands of families...
Study: Arizona should increase child welfare spending by $54M
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Prosecutors are considering charges againstthe biological son of a woman accused in a lucrative adoption scam that stretchedfrom New York to South Florida, authorities said Tuesday.