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Even a Short Stay in Foster Care Can Have Detrimental Effects on a Child (Pt 1)
Think your kids will never end up in foster care? Listen to this: You have a child who, for reasons no doctor can determine, isn’t meeting their developmental goals. They struggle to sit up by the six-month mark, and by 18 months they’re still showing no signs of being able to walk. At 4-years of…
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Surveillance Versus Safety: What is CPS Involvement Really Doing to Struggling Families?
When a teacher sees a child who doesn’t have a winter coat that fits, or a doctor realizes that a child they’re seeing for a Wellchild check up is clearly hungry, what do they do? In most cases, they call the CPS hotline and report suspected neglect. But is that what they should be doing?…
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Mom’s False Positive Drug Screen Can Result in Newborns Being Taken by CPS! (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this discussion about how false positive drug screenings of new moms can result in their babies being taken by CPS. As we mentioned in the previous article, this is a major problem in Alabama, which just happens to be the state that leads the U.S. in…
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Mom’s False Positive Drug Screen Can Result in Newborns Being Taken by CPS! (Pt 1)
AL.com, an Alabama based online news publication, recently released a story about new moms who seem to be at risk for losing their newborn babies in the state of Alabama, all because their pre-birth drug screen came back as false positives. The paper introduced several moms who were all accused of exposing their babies to…
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Cooperation Between Foster And Bio Parents Gets Kids Home Faster! (Pt 2)
Welcome back – we’ve been discussing the fact that when biological and foster parents communicate about the child they’re all invested in, that child ends up going home faster in the long run. Several studies have shown that when children get removed from their parents care and placed in foster homes, one of the factors…
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Cooperation Between Foster And Bio Parents Gets Kids Home Faster! (Pt 1)
When CPS takes a child away from their parent’s home because of suspected abuse or neglect and places them in a foster home, a whole chain of events is kicked off. First, the agency has to find a licensed foster home (hopefully nearby) that has room for that kid. Once the child is established in…
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Should ‘Visitation’ be Changed to ‘Family Time’ For Kids in Foster Care? (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this discussion on the issue of visitation for kids in foster care, and how that time together should be viewed more as “family time” and less as a short visit. As we explained in the previous article, the federal government has recently released a memo addressing…
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Should ‘Visitation’ be Changed to ‘Family Time’ For Kids in Foster Care? (Pt 1)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released a memo to all State, Tribal, and Territorial Agencies that oversee child welfare, addressing the issue of visitation for foster kids. Currently, most children in foster care whose parents aren’t a direct threat to their wellbeing, get time to visit with their parents. Sometimes (usually)…
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CPS Gets Called For Runaway, But It’s Dad Who Ends up in Jail!
When Michigan State Troopers were dispatched to an address in Holly, Michigan for a runaway, they arrived with no notion of what to expect. They gathered information on the boy who was missing and set about looking for him. In the end, it didn’t take them long to find the boy, but once they got…
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What Happens When States Don’t Track Child Deaths Accurately? (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been looking at a recent study done by ProPublica, where they gathered data on abuse and neglect related child deaths from all 50 states, under the federal law (Child Abuse Treatment and Prevention Act, called CAPTA). Unsurprisingly, child welfare agencies in many states either refused to comply…
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