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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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How The Indian Child Welfare Legal Challenge Could Change Foster Situations For Tribal Children (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been looking at the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), and how the current legal challenge to this law could impact thousands of native children all over the country. Having discussed the history behind the act, and what led to its passage in Congress, we’d like to share…
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Are States in The US Complying With CAPTA Laws For Kids Not in Foster Care? (Pt 1)
Did you know, there’s a federal law that many people aren’t aware of called the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (commonly called CAPTA) that states in the US are required to comply with? CAPTA provides Federal funding to States in support of prevention, assessment, investigation, prosecution, and treatment activities to do with child abuse.…
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How The Welfare System Makes it Harder For Battered Mothers to Seek Help! (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been looking at a travesty happening in different parts of the country, and right here in Michigan, where battered mothers desperately trying to escape their abusers are punished by the state. And the methods of punishment used by CPS? Only the worst and most painful thing you…
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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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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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Lansing Dad Sentenced to Prison For Years of Violently Abusing And Neglecting Kids
Yenier Conde, a 33-year-old father living in Lansing with his wife and five children, was sentenced to prison recently for the role he played in the violent abuse of his children for years. According to the detective who investigated the scene, the dark room where the five Conde children were locked up, often without food…
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MDHHS Will be Introducing a New Computer System to Replace The Previous $231 Million Program
Michigan’s CPS agency has courted so much controversy over the last decade, that it’s almost par for the course to see awful news headlines these days tied directly to something CPS did, or should have done but didn’t. And the issue of their multi-million dollar software is no exception. Ever since spending a serious chunk…