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  • What To Do When CPS Shows Up At Your Door! (Part 3)

    Welcome back to this series on how to handle a CPS worker that shows up unannounced at you door, demanding to come in. In the previous two articles we talked about the importance of being polite in all your interactions with CPS, and why CPS would need a warrant to enter your home. Moving on,…

  • What To Do When CPS Shows Up At Your Door! (Part 2)

    Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. In the previous article we discussed how to handle a phone call from CPS, and what to do at first when a CPS worker shows up on your doorstep. Picking up where we left off, CPS is still waiting at your front door, with a police officer…

  • What To Do When CPS Shows Up At Your Door! (Part 1)

    Most people know that a visit from CPS is a bad thing. It means someone has reported you to the agency for one thing or another. And now they’re arriving at your home, ready to poke around in your home and judge your parenting skills. But unlike a nosy neighbor or a catty “frenemy”, their…

  • Auditor General Suing MDHHS For CPS Mishandling of Foster Cases

    Michigan’s Auditor General and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services are locked in a heated battle over the release of CPS records. Or rather, in the non-release of CPS records, because the MDHHS has refused to provide the State Auditor access to the adoption records they need in order to conduct an investigation…

  • CPS Seeks to Terminate Parental Rights of Couple Accused of Murder

    This story has made national headlines – the tragic tale of 4-year-old Gabrielle Barrette whose recent death sparked a nationwide manhunt. Her mother, 24-year-old Candice Renea Diaz, and her mother’s boyfriend, 28-year old Brad Edward Fields, have since been charged with child abuse and murder in the wake of Gabby’s untimely death. Since then, CPS…

  • Child Advocacy Center to Open in Lenawee County This Month!

    On January 26th, a whole group of people from a wide variety of agencies will get together on Broad Street in Adrian, Michigan to cut the ribbon of Lenawee County’s brand new Child Advocacy Center! Many other counties have something similar, but for Lenawee County, this is a first. Many agencies were involved in making…

  • Giving Birth to an Unwanted Baby? There Are Ways to Avoid CPS! (Part 2)

    Welcome back and thanks for joining us. In the previous post we talked about the reasons for Michigan’s Safe Haven law, and how it benefits everyone involved. In this post we’d like to share with you info about what’s involved in surrendering a newborn safely to the authorities. For new moms, the idea of just…

  • Giving Birth to an Unwanted Baby? There Are Ways to Avoid CPS! (Part 1)

    Whether or not you agree with abortion, it is a legal option for pregnant women in Michigan. But only up to a certain point. After 24.5 weeks, the only way a woman can terminate a pregnancy is if her life is at risk, or the pregnancy is the result of incest or rape. But what…

  • Is Foster Care Better? Or Should Families be Kept Together? (pt. 2)

      Welcome back, and thanks for joining us as we discuss the subject of whether foster care is as helpful as we hoped, or if children do better when kept with their families. As we pointed out in the previous article, there are certainly situations when children need to be removed from their parent’s care…

  • Is Foster Care Better? Or Should Families be Kept Together? (pt. 1)

    The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform has long been of the belief that more harm is done by removing children from their homes, even if those homes are not the happiest, versus removing the kids from their imperfect families. As it turns out, they were on to something. And there’s evidence to prove it.…