Monday, June 11, 2012

Foster care in South Dakota: The state goes after another child welfare whistleblower

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             It’s hard to say in which state it is most dangerous to take on child protective services – but a good case can be made for S...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Medicating kids in foster care: Turns out that’s arbitrary, capricious and cruel, too

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             What are the odds that a foster child in Kentucky is two-and-a-half times more likely to need to be doped up on potent, somet...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Foster care in America: The threat to waivers is even worse than I thought

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As is discussed in the previous post to this Blog , when I read the guidance issued by the Administration on Children Youth and Families (...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Foster care in America: HHS guidelines undermine child welfare waivers

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The best chance in decades to get serious about reducing the number of children torn from their families each year is being undermined by ...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Foster care in Michigan: Did the state’s child welfare chief mislead the public on purpose ...

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…or was she just appallingly ignorant herself? That’s the question raised by the latest outstanding investigative report from WXYZ-TV...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Foster care in Maine: Will one dumb politician undo a decade of progress?

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UPDATE, MAY 16: Longtime Portland Press Herald columnist Bill Nemitz has a great column today about a classic case of Maine's child ...
Monday, May 7, 2012

Child welfare in New York: A poll worker’s rash mistake, and a foster care tragedy

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This is not meant to minimize in any way what Andrew and Jessica Schiefer and their children have had to endure at the hands of the New Yo...