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Foster Families Face Unique Issues That Many Biological Families Don’t Encounter (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. We’ve been looking at some of the challenges that foster families face that biological families usually don’t encounter. In the previous article we looked at two very common issues, namely the behavioral and medical issues that foster kids often suffer as a result of trauma, and the…
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Foster Families Face Unique Issues That Many Biological Families Don’t Encounter (Pt 1)
For most biological parents who are only raising their own kids, they decide what they want their children’s lives to look like, and they base their rules and family policies on that projection. “Only organic food”, “an emphasis on education”, “must speak a second language” or “limits on screen time” are good examples. You get…
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Cultural Misunderstandings Can Lead to CPS Interventions in Michigan. (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been discussing the difficult subject of CPS interventions, but with the added spin of how they affect immigrant and refugee communities. As we mentioned in the previous article, many of these people arrive here from other cultural backgrounds having suffered incredible tragedies and losses. They have very…
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Cultural Misunderstandings Can Lead to CPS Interventions in Michigan. (Pt 1)
Michigan is a melting pot of cultures, ethnicities, and racial variety. Between the extensive immigrant and resettled refugee populations, and the many people living here whose parents and grandparents came here from other countries, you’d be hard-pressed to not find just about every corner of the world represented. But while the rich diversity of cultures,…
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Studies Show Mediation Results in Faster, Better Outcomes in CPS Cases
Earlier this year the Michigan Supreme Court released the results of a study that evaluated Michigan’s Child Protection Mediation (CPM) process when used as an alternative means of achieving permanency in child welfare cases. (The term ‘permanency’ in this case means children being returned to their permanent homes where they live with their families, as…
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How Financial Aid Scams Could Hurt Foster Kids in The Future! (Pt 2)
Hi there and welcome back. We’ve been discussing the many and various scams exposed this year where parents break the law and engage in ethically dubious practices to get their kids into college. But the most recent scam, where parents from the suburbs of Chicago assign guardianship of their teenage children to less wealthy families…
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How Financial Aid Scams Could Hurt Foster Kids in The Future! (Pt 1)
If you read the news then you’re no stranger to the lengths parents will go to, to ensure that their kids get into the “right” college. There’s the Varsity Blues scandal from earlier this year, where wealthy folks ran scams on the admissions system at Ivy-league colleges to get their kids in. And then there…
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Federal Funding Available For Legal Representation in Michigan CPS Cases
Battling CPS can be a nightmare. They seem to have all the aces up their sleeves, while Michigan families are left in the dark, trying to understand policies that make no sense and workers that don’t have to answer for their actions. Not to mention, fighting CPS is a long and expensive battle. Many families…
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Think CPS Won’t Come After You Because You’re a “Good” Parent? Think Again! (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this difficult but necessary conversation about CPS. Specifically, we’ve been talking about how easy it is to get ‘red-flagged’ by CPS and end up being labeled as a “bad” parent, even when you’re doing your very best to be a good one. As we mentioned in…
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Think CPS Won’t Come After You Because You’re a “Good” Parent? Think Again! (Pt 1)
Think about the articles you read online and in the news. Anytime parents are mentioned as being accused of child abuse or having CPS remove their children or petition the courts to have their parental rights terminated, these extreme measures are explained as warranted. After all, these parents have been accused of abusing or neglecting…
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