Category: Child Welfare System
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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What is Foster Care Panic? And Does it Affect Child Welfare in Michigan? (Pt. 4)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. If you’re just finding this series now, we recommend you take a minute to get caught up. If you’ve been with us from the start, let’s dive in… At this point it we think it would be safe to assume that we are all on the same page.…
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What is Foster Care Panic? And Does it Affect Child Welfare in Michigan? (Pt. 3)
Welcome back, to our discussion on foster care panic and the effects it has on the child welfare system. In our previous two articles, we looked at what exactly a “foster care panic” is, and how it happens. Moving on, we’d like to explore that in a little more depth, before talking about options for…
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What is Foster Care Panic? And Does it Affect Child Welfare in Michigan? (Pt. 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us for this in-depth look at the social phenomenon that is foster care panic. As we described in the intro, foster care panic is what happens whenever a child who was taken from their home by CPS, is sent back home and then dies. The ensuing outcry and…
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What is Foster Care Panic? And Does it Affect Child Welfare in Michigan? (Pt. 1)
You’re probably wondering what exactly ‘foster care panic’ is. Don’t worry – you’re not alone! Many people have never heard the term before! However, it’s actually a very real, and very scary reality in the child welfare system, and can have a huge impact on the wellbeing of families and children in a state. So…
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The Truth About Interviewing Victims of Child Abuse (Part 5)
The prosecution has one job – to prosecute the alleged offender. This is how the law was set up. It’s ultimately the best system available to us at this time, although we can probably all agree that it isn’t without flaws. The problems start when the forensic interview is conducted with the intention of…
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The Truth About Interviewing Victims of Child Abuse! (Part 1)
The average person equates the word “forensic” with cop shows on TV – the “forensics team” being the people who talk at length about blood spatter and DNA and trace evidence. But while collecting and analyzing evidence from a crime scene is certainly “forensics”, the term actually includes much more than that. By definition, “forensics” refers…
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MSU Study Shows Head Start Helps Keep Kids Out Of Foster Care
A national study, lead by Michigan State University researcher Sacha Klein, shows that Head Start may do more than just provide kids with introductory education. As it turns out, the Head Start program may also help keeps kids out of the foster system. How is that possible, you wonder? According to Klein, there are…