John Archibald
WBHM
A grand jury in Lee County has already ensnared two state lawmakers and the conventional wisdom is that body is after Hubbard. Alabama Media ..... The money will help pay for basic services like Medicaid, prisons and child protective services. But John ...

Editorial: Foster kids need stability to thrive
Calgary Herald
What children like Tyrell need most of all is stability in foster care. That one child could live in 13 foster homes is truly staggering. He must have felt so rejected and so worthless. His case would have presented a lot of behavioural and emotional ...

Attorney General Eric Holder Delivers Remarks During the White House Tribal ...
Yumanewsnow
And we are redoubling our support of the Indian Child Welfare Act, to protect Indian children from being illegally removed from their families; to prevent the further destruction of Native traditions through forced and unnecessary assimilation; and to ...

Summit County Juvenile Court's 'Crossroads Program' awarded certification
Twinsburg Bulletin
The Supreme Court of Ohio notified the Summit County Juvenile Court Nov. 21 that the court's "Crossroads Program" has been awarded final certification. The Commission of Specialized Dockets voted in favor of certification Nov. 19. The 22-member ...
SUPCO certifies Juvenile Drug CourtPortsmouth Daily Times

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Report: High numbers of Alaska children -- especially Native children -- in ...
Alaska Dispatch
During the study period from 2006 to 2013, about 2,000 Alaska children were in foster care any given month, and 60 percent were Alaska Native, according to the new report by the Institute of Social and Economic Research, part of the University of ...
Ex-foster children tell of abuse in Texas systemSan Antonio Express-News
Study shows former foster kids face higher risk of future health problemsScope (blog)

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London Free Press
“We lose kids all the time to foster care. Most of the time they're placed in non-indigenous homes.” The conference was held as the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal prepares to deliver a ruling after a trial in which First Nations organizations argued ...

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Salon offers free hair styling to women leaving foster care
19 Action News
LYNDHURST, OH (WOIO) - A local salon is giving back this holiday season to a special group of women who have aged out of the foster care system. In an event called "Hair for the Holidays," Bangs Salon in Lyndhurst is giving free hair style services to ...

More than a dozen displaced after fire at adult foster care home in Flint
MLive.com
FLINT, MI -- More than a dozen people are displaced after a fire ripped through an adult foster care home in Flint early Wednesday morning, Dec. 3, said Flint fire Chief David Cox Jr. The call for the blaze in the 1200 block of Lapeer Road in Flint ...

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Woman Accused of Starving Three Year-Old Child
SurfKY News
The arrest comes after a lengthy investigation by Sergeant Kyle Nall, in conjunction with the Department of Community Based Services, which led to the case being presented to the McCracken County Grand Jury on Nov. 21, 2014. The investigation was ...
Paducah woman accused of starving 3 year oldKFVS

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2 sought in fatal beating of man at Los Angeles group home
KABC-TV
Police are asking for the public's help locating two men charged in the beating death of a roommate at a group home in Los Angeles. Investigators say on April 21, 44-year-old John Lubben was beaten for several hours by 40-year-old Martin Santana and ...

Two Kansas Foster Care Program Officials Are Out
KCUR
A spokesperson for the Kansas Department for Children and Families on Tuesday said that Deputy Secretary Kathe Decker and Prevention and Protection Services Director Brian Dempsey have left the agency. Anna Pilato, director of the department's ...

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Thane: Cops rescue minor being forced into marriage, arrest 4
Hindustan Times
The district child protection unit officers, including Sandeep Lanjewar, Palghar Officer and Parmeshwar Dhasare, received a tip-off from one of the relatives of the girl. “We raided the spot at Shankar Mandir at 12.30pm on Wednesday. Her father is a ...
4 held for bid to marry off minorTimes of India
Thane police foils child marriage attemptI am in dna of India

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Texas County Official Wants Funds for Foster Care
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Williamson County Commissioner Lisa Birkman asked state legislators at a Tuesday meeting to set aside funds for pilot programs to improve foster care. She says the county attorney often can't get a file on a foster case until the day before a court ...
Williamson County commissioner wants funds for foster careTemple Daily Telegram

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Letters: Let's pay more attention to kids in foster care
MLive.com
Colton Van Buren reaches out to hug foster care worker Sandy Binnendyk during Michigan Adoption Day ceremonies at Ottawa County Family Court in West Olive, Mi., on Tuesday, November 25, 2014. (Zach Gibson | MLive.com/The Grand Rapids Press).

Thane Police Child Protection Unit Foils Child Marriage
NDTV
Thane: The Child Protection Unit (CPU) of the Thane Police Commissionerate swung into action today after a tip-off and foiled a child marriage in the district, official sources said today evening. Police inspector Madan Ballal who heads the CPU told ...

Judge Norbert Nadel: No new trial for convicted judge Tracie Hunter
WCPO
CINCINNATI – Convicted juvenile court judge Tracie Hunter will not get a new trial. WCPO's Tom McKee said Judge Norbert Nadel issued the ruling early Wednesday. Earlier, Nadel said if he rejected Hunter's motion for a new trial she would be sentenced ...
Ohio judge to decide quickly on convicted juvenile court judge's latest effort ...Greenfield Daily Reporter
Ohio judge denies new trial for suspended juvenile court judge convicted of ...The Tribune
Ohio judge denied new trial; sentencing date setUSA TODAY
Cincinnati.com
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Task force working to improve foster care in Williamson County
KVUE
Among the major problems identified with the current system are the way agencies communicate, a lack of resources the help both the foster parents and biological parents, and a lack of coordination between schools and foster care agencies. That last ...
Williamson official to ask for state funds to improve foster careAustin American-Statesman
Foster Care Task Force ProposalsKEYE TV

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Military vet takes lead role at juvenile court services
DesMoinesRegister.com
Since 2004, the Oelwein native has worked as a juvenile court officer and an intake officer, tasked with making crucial decisions about children as they enter system, all with the goal of helping young people work through the problems that led them there.

Drug Free Coalition honors retiring juvenile court judge
Gainesville Times
Entering the final month of his 24-year juvenile court career, Juvenile Court Judge Cliff Jolliff received the second annual Mary Parks Youth Champion Award on Tuesday night at a ceremony in Gainesville. Jolliff said he was honored to receive the award ...
Drug free coalitions recognizes partner organization, retiring juvenile court ...Access North Georgia

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Juvenile charged with reckless homicide will not be moved to adult court
WNDU-TV
The 18-year-old driver was charged in juvenile court because he was 17 at the time of the crash. The St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office filed a motion to get the case waived to adult court, but the juvenile court judge said there was not probable ...
South Bend teen will not be sent to adult court in traffic crash that killed 3WSBT-TV

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Man missing from Gresham foster care found
KOIN.com
Abdi Ali Hirsi in an undated photo released by the Gresham Police Department on Dec. 2, 2014. GRESHAM, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A 29-year-old man who was committed to a foster care facility after allegedly stabbing his stepfather in the neck who was missing ...

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Residents say group home conditions were deplorable
WJXT Jacksonville
OUR WEB SITE CLICK ON THE SEX CRIMES TAB. NORTH SIDE WE TOLD YOU ABOUT IT LAST NIGHT AND NOW DCF ANOTHER STATE AGENCY ARE CONTINUE CONTINUING THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO THE GROUP HOME. OWNER OF THE ...

Child Care Modernization Act
Government of Ontario News
Giving children the best possible start in life, and ensuring families have access to safe and modern child care, is a top priority for the Ontario government. The Child Care Modernization Act, 2014 will repeal and replace the Day Nurseries Act, the ...

CT Supreme Court to rule on order barring reporting of juvenile case
The CT Mirror
20141201_084914 Can a Connecticut court bar publication of a news story when information from a confidential juvenile court proceeding makes its way to the media? That's the question the Connecticut Supreme Court will answer after New Britain Superior ...
Supreme Court To Consider Rare Ruling Barring Coverage Of Child Custody CaseHartford Courant
Judge rescinds no-publish order against newspaperTheDay.com
A custody battle and a First Amendment fightCT Post
Connecticut Law Tribune
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Child protection panel releases 9 recommendations to improve protective services
Daily Journal
The panel was tasked by the governor with reviewing 116 case files of children who died or nearly died from abuse or neglect and making recommendations to improve the state's child protection system. Along with drug screenings, the committee ...
Panel calls for changes after reviewing dozens of child-abuse deaths in KentuckyLexington Herald Leader

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Police: Group home owner kept residents locked up
First Coast News
Atakelte Admasu, identified as the owner of the property and manager of St. Agnes Group Home for the Elderly, was arrested Nov. 26 on felony charges of false imprisonment and negligence of disabled adults. Admasu, 58, has since been released on bond.
Jacksonville group home operator arrested after reports of residents locked up ...Florida Times-Union
Man charged with false imprisonment, negligence of disabled adultsWJXT Jacksonville
Update: Jacksonville disabled living facility license suspendedWOKV

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Universities are not franchises
Winnipeg Free Press
We were pioneers in providing direct support for low-income, aboriginal and new Canadian students, including students coming out of our foster-care systems with our opportunity fund. More than 1,000 young men and women on low income became students ...

Commissioner Discusses Problems In Child Protection System
Vermont Public Radio
A scathing report on Vermont's child protection systems puts a spotlight on the Department for Children and Families. The report by the Vermont Citizen's Advisory board says the state failed two toddlers who were killed this year, allegedly by family ...

Indigenous Kids in Care
ABC Online (blog)
Imagine for a moment you're an indigenous child who has been put into foster care, removed from family and at risk of breaking connection with your culture. Who is looking out for you and advocating for your rights? Raymond Brunker from the Queensland ...

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Longtime juvenile court Judge Philip Trompeter to retire
Roanoke Times
Lawyer Brad Thompson (left) congratulates retiring Judge Philip Trompeter on Monday. Trompeter announced he will retire when his term concludes on April 15. ey philiptrompeter 120114 p03. ERICA YOON | The Roanoke Times ...

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Valley man works to protect LGBT youth in foster care
KESQ
Studies show 1 in 5 children in foster care in Riverside County identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning or intersex. Court Appointed Special Advocate Gordon Elkins, of Palm Springs, said nearly all of them reported being ...

Jacksonville group home operator arrested after residents locked up, forced to ...
Florida Times-Union
A Jacksonville group home operator has been arrested after police witnessed deplorable conditions including chains on doors and cabinets, people sleeping on a mattress with no bedding and at least two people having to use a soda bottle to urinate in.

Child Protection League Action Uses Stock Photo of Lesbian Novel in Anti-LGBT ...
TheColu.mn
The Child Protection League Action [CPLAction] proclaimed on their Facebook page today that they have taken out the below ad in the Star Tribune and other newspapers around the state. “Her dreams of a scholarship shattered,” it says, “your 14-year old ...

Contracts for juvenile court renewed
Piqua Daily Call
The first contract was signed with Cornell Abraxas Group Inc. of Shelby for the provision of placement and related services in each Individual Child Care Agreement for the children in the care and custody of the juvenile court, which is consistent with ...

TX: 84th Legislative Session Has Work To Do For Child Protection Transparency
Watchdog Wire
Texas made 2014 an unprecedented year in child protection transparency. Sadly, it took 10 children dying in foster care during FY2013 to trigger a response from the Legislature. Early in the year, interim charges went out ordering the situation be ...

Foster carers feel pressured into giving up work, report finds
Communitycare.co.uk
Foster carers feel pressured to give up their jobs by fostering services, a Fostering Network report has found. The report, funded by the Department for Education, called on services to consider whether people who work may be ruling themselves out of ...
Sheffield teens urge others to be foster carersThe Star
Abandoned babies highlight the need for good foster carersWA today
Foster parents recognised for immense effortDriffield Today

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Abandonned babies highlight the need for good foster carers
Sydney Morning Herald
On Sunday the body of newborn baby was found in the sand of Maroubra Beach. A week earlier, a newborn baby was found abandoned at the bottom of a stormwater drain in Quakers Hill. In the wake of these heartbreaking events, the Fostering NSW inquiry ...

Country star gives hope to foster care kids
wreg.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A country star who has been a champion for foster care kids is telling his own troubling story. Jimmy Wayne's autobiography 'Walk to Beautiful' is now a New York Times Best Seller. The singer/song writer, who gained fame with hit ...

Child protection in turmoil across the country
Minneapolis Star Tribune
New York, Florida and Arizona overhauled their child protection systems this year, and now Minnesota is poised to follow their lead. Gov. Mark Dayton formed a child protection task force in September following the Star Tribune's report on 4-year-old ...

Indigenous women behind bars: Persecuted by the system
Independent Australia
Instead, the system facilitated the removal of this little Aboriginal boy and placed him in foster care. His mother was given a mattress on the cell floor, due to overcrowding. I cannot imagine the trauma this young mother is experiencing — her grief ...

Spare the rod: Corporal punishment on decline in post-Peterson world
LubbockOnline.com
In September, a Montgomery County grand jury indicted Peterson on a state jail felony charge of injury to a child after allegations surfaced he had used a tree branch to beat his 4-year-old son. Victor Veith, executive director ... To distinguish ...

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Sacramento County grand jury seeks applicants to provide needed oversight
Sacramento Bee
Over the years, a panel of 19 Sacramento County residents has investigated the county's Child Protective Services agency three times, peered into the challenges facing the Delta town of Isleton and helped uncover corruption inside Sacramento's library ...

State placed disabled children with nurses untrained in their needs
Baltimore Sun
The disabled foster children removed from a troubled Laurel-area group home this summer were placed by Maryland regulators in facilities whose their nurses lacked training for their complex medical needs, inspection records show. Health regulators did ...

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Ontario Liberals refuse to expand child advocate's powers
Sun News Network
The bill does extend the office's oversight to Children's Aid societies for the first time but not to group homes and mental health institutions. MacCharles said in a statement Friday that Elman's request is beyond the scope of his mandate. "The ...

Ontario's child advocate praises probe of drug hair tests
Toronto Star
“There not only needs to be a review of the actual results, but also the way in which Motherisk has provided its results to children's aid societies and the courts,” because the lab's interpretations “have made it extremely difficult for lawyers to ...

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CAS pitches Christmas wish for a family in newspaper ad
Ottawa Citizen
In 2013-14, children's aid societies in Ontario finalized 970 adoptions. Two thirds of those adopted were five or younger. Just five per cent were 13 or older, even though 60 per cent of the children and youth available for adoption fall into that age ...

Ontario children's advocate baffled by limitations to powers
Toronto Star
While Elman welcomes proposed but limited ombudsman-like authority to investigate Children's Aid Societies, he says it is hard to fathom why the same kinds of powers are not being extended to include young people in youth detention centres, mental ...

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Radiothon funds education and outreach for child protection teams
Morrison County Record
5, WJJY, B93.3, Cool 103.5 and the Power Loon radio stations will be devoting air time to raising awareness and money by running messages about child protection, gathering pledges from listeners, and auctioning items donated by community businesses.

Children's advocate says he needs more powers
Niagarathisweek.com
Irwin Elman says he's frustrated by the fact his office has no power to investigate complaints and cannot compel information from mental health facilities, the youth criminal justice system and Children's Aid Societies. Elman says one 12-year-old girl ...

CAS groups call for action now on worker safety recommendations
Canada NewsWire (press release)
TORONTO, Nov. 27, 2014 /CNW/ - A coalition of groups representing managers and employees of Children's Aid Societies (CASs) across Ontario is calling for the speedy implementation of recommendations from a recent safety survey that reveals troubling ...

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Appeal launched to find foster carers
Kirkintilloch Herald
A new campaign has been launched calling on more local people to consider making space in their lives to foster or adopt a child. The drive, recently unveiled by North Lanarkshre Council, focuses on the simple everyday things that make all the ...

Ontario's Child Advocate demands more power to probe abuse
Cambridge Times
Ontario's official child advocate says proposed legislation giving him ombudsman-like authority to investigate Children's Aid Societies falls short of protecting all of the province's most vulnerable kids. “All of the children and youth in (my) mandate ...
Give child advocate powers he needs, NDP saysWaterloo Record

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Families SA under fire from foster carers at SA parliamentary inquiry
ABC Online
A foster carer has broken down in tears while giving evidence to a South Australian parliamentary inquiry into the work of government welfare agency Families SA. Jo Jarvis, from the group Connecting Foster Carers, cried as she alleged there was a lack ...
SA child protection workers 'burning out'Sky News Australia

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State names new official to head child protection
Minneapolis Star Tribune
James Koppel, a veteran state health official and longtime child welfare advocate, has been named assistant commissioner for Children and Family Services for the state Department of Human Services, where he will oversee efforts to reform child protection.

First Nations mistrust health system, Dalhousie researchers say
CBC.ca
And aboriginal people are constantly reminded of that as the child welfare system continues to take aboriginal children away from parents and put them in foster care for sometimes questionable reasons, she said. A lot of research shows that aboriginal ...

Ex-Group Home Employees Sentenced In Abuse Case
Hartford Courant
Two ex-employees at an East Hartford group home were sentenced for their roles in the abuse of residents. MANCHESTER — Two former employees at an East Hartford group home for developmentally disabled adults have been sentenced for their roles in ...

Thurrock Council needs experienced foster carers
YOURTHUROCK
THURROCK Council is on the lookout for new or experienced foster carers to join its teams. Anybody interested in finding out more about becoming a foster carer for the council should visit Cowdray Hall, London Road, West Thurrock (RM20 3BJ) on ...

Man admits sex assault, trying to blow up group home
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Jimenez-Colon, who calls himself the rapper "Etho the Destroyer" on the Internet and in social media, had faced 23 counts in a grand jury indictment, including 13 counts of attempted murder because of the number of people living at the group home, Loeb ...

VT lawmakers to change child protection laws
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Richard Sears, D-Bennington, the co-chair of the Legislature's special Committee on Child Protection, said Tuesday at the Statehouse in Montpelier. "Some of the testimony that we heard wasn't that it isn't always the best interest of the child: that ...
Child protection panel details findingsvtdigger.org
Vermont lawmakers seek child-protection changesBoston Globe
Vermont Lawmakers Prepare Child Protection ProposalsWAMC
WCAX -WPTZ The Champlain Valley
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Alcatraz's Sunrise Ceremony: 40 Years of Celebrating Self-Determination
KQED
The occupation of the rock was also used as a bargaining tool to negotiate terms of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act and the Indian Child Welfare Act, and to gain rights to practice traditional native fishing and hunting ...

Thurrock Council on the hunt for foster carers
Thurrock Gazette
THURROCK Council is on the lookout for new or experienced foster carers to join its teams. Anybody interested in finding out more about becoming a foster carer for the council should visit Cowdray Hall, London Road, West Thurrock on Wednesday, ...

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Juvenile Court leases new $50000 SUV
wreg.com
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Some eyebrows are being raised at a flashy new vehicle purchased by Shelby County Juvenile Court. A 2015 Chevy Tahoe is the new county-funded ride for Judge Dan Michael and other employees. It's supposed to be used for ...

Children's advocacy group files federal suit claiming Hamilton juvenile court ...
WCPO
CINCINNATI -- A legal advocacy group for children is claiming a Hamilton County juvenile court judge and his administrators have repeatedly violated the Constitutional rights of thousands of adolescents. On Monday the Children's Law Center, Inc. filed ...
Suit challenges Hamilton County juvenile arrestsCincinnati.com
Lawsuit challenges juvenile arrests, detentionsAkron Beacon Journal
Lawsuit: Ohio courts violate juvenile rightsColumbus Dispatch

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Indigenous program on track for success
UQ News
It targets top-performing Indigenous students, as well as students in foster care or living independently, to ensure they are supported throughout their schooling. Senior students can elect to undertake UQ courses for future credit and participate in a ...

FL child welfare agency hired investigator who was forced to resign amid sex ...
Naples Daily News
Barnes was hired about three years after Yonce's investigation was shut down to serve as a child protective investigator. He was assigned to “work protecting children and working with families to conduct investigations of alleged abused, abandoned, ...

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Police arrest driver in fatal group-home crash
azcentral.com
Investigators believe Orpheus was attempting to commit suicide when he plowed his white Nissan into the group home near 35^th Avenue and Deer Valley Road on Nov. 16, according to Officer James Holmes, a Phoenix Police Department spokesman.
Police release name of driver who crashed into care homeAZFamily
Suspect arrested in deadly crash into Phoenix homeKVOA Tucson News

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Stealing Children: A Look at Indigenous Child Removal Policies
Indian Country Today Media Network
A Generation Removed looks at indigenous child removal policies from just after World War II up until passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978. ICTMN interviewed Jacobs about her work. “When I got to Australia [to begin research] it was shortly ...

Urban Inuit: Nomads from the Arctic find new home in Canada's capital
Al Jazeera America
On the surface, there is a temptation to liken the Inuit challenges to the problems facing indigenous populations across the country, with low rates of education and employment, and high rates of foster care and incarceration. However, as one ...

Couple charged in child abuse case among indicted by grand jury
Johnson City Press (subscription)
Jeremiah Johnson, 36, and Elizabeth K. Johnson, 27, both of 300 Whitney St., were indicted on child neglect and child abuse charges related to the injury discovered in June by police and Child Protective Services. The investigation began after CPS ...

Jacobs speaks about indigenous child welfare
News Net Nebraska
Child removal ended with the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978, which allowed the sovereignty of the tribes to decide such matters. Jacobs said there were public discussions and apologies from the governments of Canada and Australia, but the U. S. ...

Aboriginal mothers' ill-treatment in jail gives kids a bad start
Sydney Morning Herald
Instead the system facilitated the removal of this little Aboriginal boy and placed him in foster care. His mother was given a mattress on the cell floor, due to overcrowding. I cannot imagine the trauma this young mother is experiencing; her grief and ...

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Near Ferguson, a struggle that begins before kindergarten
Los Angeles Times
While the nation was focused on Ferguson, Mo., this summer, my attention was on a St. Louis kindergarten classroom not far from where Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer. Within weeks of her East Coast college graduation, my ...

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All eyes on Maine as group seeks to make amends for injustices to Indian children
Bangor Daily News
Even though the federal Indian Child Welfare Act was passed in 1978 to provide protection for Native American children and families, Maine was still placing native children in non-native homes at a high rate into the 1990s, Kates said. After a federal ...

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Growing number of parents flee to Ireland over forced adoption fears
ITV News
Growing numbers of fearful parents are finding sanctuary in rural Ireland, on the run from social services in England and Wales where their children are being threatened with forced adoption. One or two pregnant women or desperate parents are arriving ...

Sioux Mother to Return to Court in Latest Fight for Her Abused Sons
Indian Country Today Media Network
“We have worked hard to build a good relationship with officials here in Woodbury County,” said LaMere. “But there are countless counties across the country that ignore the Indian Child Welfare Act. Sadly, they forget that ICWA is not a 'defense ...

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A Worldwide Commitment to Protecting Children's Rights
Canada NewsWire (press release)
TORONTO, Nov. 20, 2014 /CNW/ - November 20 is observed annually in Canada as National Child Day and worldwide as Universal Children's Day to recognize the United Nations' adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the Convention on ...

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Williamsburg grand jury hands down 50-plus indictments
Virginia Gazette
WILLIAMSBURG — Nearly five dozen indictments against 39 defendants were handed down Wednesday by a grand jury, including indictments for felony child abuse, embezzlement, rape, and malicious wounding. An indictment for felony child abuse against 22 ...

White foster carers need more information about caring for black children
The Guardian (blog)
How many other white foster carers, who were committed to providing the best care to black children, had similar questions, the same angst, and the same embarrassment. What other questions did she not have the answers to? And how were the children, ...

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Police: Driver who killed 1 may have been suicidal
azcentral.com
The man is alleged to have been behind the wheel of a white Nissan that plowed into the southwestern corner of the group home, which housed five patients and two caretakers near 35th Avenue and Deer Valley Road. A 61-year-old man was struck by the ...

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Native American child law not followed, court says
Native Times
The high court's ruling on Friday echoed a state Appeals Court ruling, which also said Juvenile Court Judge Linda Porter had erred in deciding the Indian Child Welfare Act didn't apply in the case of three Lancaster County children, according to the ...

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A new indigenous Stolen Generation
Sydney Morning Herald
Don't ever sit comfortably in your armchair and describe the stolen generation as a thing of the past. Don't do that. At this moment, there are 14,000 Aboriginal babies and children in foster care, out-of-home care, or residential care. The attempted ...

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Car crashes into Phoenix group home
azcentral.com
A car crashed into a Phoenix group care home Sunday night, injuring one man, officials said. The Phoenix Fire Department received a call about 6:45 p.m. that a car crashed into the home near 35th Avenue and Deer Valley Road. Firefighters arrived to ...

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Tusla launch new campaign for foster carers in Ballymun
Dublin People
The launch brought together current foster parents and community leaders to help promote fostering and spread the message that foster carers are a diverse group of people who come from all walks of life. Chief Executive of Tusla - the Child and Family ...

Native American child law was not followed, Nebraska high court says
Omaha World-Herald
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that a Lancaster County judge should have applied to a child custody case a federal law that seeks to prevent the removal of Native American children from their homes. The Lincoln Journal Star reported ...

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'Peter Boy' leads could send case to grand jury
West Hawaii Today
Lillian Koller, then state Health and Human Services director, released thousands of pages of Child Protective Service files documenting years of abuse suffered by Peter Boy and his siblings at the hands of Peter Kema Sr. Peter Boy was taken from the ...

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No bail for woman accused of lying about fire that killed 4
Albany Times Union
A woman accused of lying to a grand jury about a Schenectady fire that killed her ex-lover and his three children has a history of witness intimidation and violence that includes an admission that she once "microwaved a kitten," a federal prosecutor ...
N.Y. Woman Charged in Fire That Killed FourFirehouse.com

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Parents fight British social services 'gag' to petition European Parliament
Telegraph.co.uk
The comments were made after a group of British parents who lost their children to social workers or forced adoption took their plight to the European Parliament's petition committee on Tuesday, which makes representations to the European Commission.

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Foster-care policy change modest given need for reform
Port Huron Times Herald
The caseworkers will lie, falsify documents do anything to keep the child in states care. The GAL's are in on it as well. They do not work for the child, many children don't even speak to the GAL's.... CASA is the same way, they don't work for the best ...

Foster parents who kept baby girl alive, named Ealing's Foster Carers of the Year
getwestlondon
A couple who fostered a desperately ill baby girl giving her round the clock care have been named Ealing Council's Foster Carers of the Year. Maria and Joel Evangelista received their accolade at the council's annual fostering awards held on Saturday, ...
Ealing Foster Carers CelebratedEalingToday.co.uk

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It is time to act to change the lives of Ontario's vulnerable children
Canada NewsWire (press release)
TORONTO, Nov. 10, 2014 /CNW/ - The Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies (OACAS) released their annual Child Welfare Report today. The 2014 Child Welfare Report identifies six areas as the focus for change. These priorities highlight the need ...

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Urgent appeal for foster carers in north Dublin
RTE.ie
The child and family agency Tusla will hold a public meeting tomorrow evening in an effort to recruit more foster parents to look after children in the north Dublin area. There is an urgent need for carers in the region, with 90 foster families needed ...

The Standing Rock Sioux fight to get their children back
Al Jazeera America
The placement was a violation of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a federal law that stipulates Indian children be placed with extended family members, tribal members or in a home with at least one Native foster parent. But experts say the ...

Newport man accused of torching mother's house, alleged medical pot thieves ...
Bangor Daily News
BANGOR, Maine — A Newport man accused of burning his mother's home down and killing her dogs was indicted Wednesday by the Penobscot County grand jury. Kenneth Goodrich, 44, was indicted on two counts each of arson and aggravated cruelty to ...

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Victorian opposition promises to lift veto on parents contacting children ...
ABC Online
Victorian opposition promises to lift veto on parents contacting children after forced adoptions. Updated 25 Oct 2014, 3:12amSat 25 Oct 2014, 3:12am. Related Story: Gillard delivers apology to victims of forced adoption · Related Story: Pressure on ...

Group-care trend worries Arizona auditor general
Arizona Daily Star
The budget cuts strained foster families, who also struggle with getting timely responses from overwhelmed or inexperienced CPS caseworkers, Jacober said. Many struggle to secure behavioral health care for their troubled foster kids. Annual allotments ...

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Paralyzed Indianapolis teen dies in filthy home days after caseworker visited home
New York Daily News
Moores concluded that the staff did not falsify positive reviews of the girl's living conditions. However, she did say that there was a "negligent oversight, if not reckless disregard, of the conditions of the home." DCS Director Mary Beth Bonaventura ...

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Linda Kelley dead days after DCS check, was covered in bedsores
Daily Mail
A DCS case worker and employees from Damar Services, which provides care to patients with special needs, had visited the teen at her parents' home in Indianapolis just six days before she died. Marion Juvenile Court Judge Marilyn Moores held hearings ...

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State to pay record settlement in child abuse case
KING5.com
I firmly believe in many cases they are assigned they falsify paper work and claim the went to the homes. Too many children dying from obvious and ..... There are caseworkers here who just simply aren't doing their jobs. And if the state is allowed to ...

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Families flee UK to avoid forced adoption
BBC News
Families flee UK to avoid forced adoption. 6 October 2014 Last updated at 09:56 BST. Some families who feel they are at risk of forced adoptions are fleeing the UK to escape social services. Every year around 11,000 children in England are taken from ...

Justice Department Supports Native Americans In Child Welfare Case
WUNC
It's the first time the department has intervened in a federal district court case involving the Indian Child Welfare Act, a law meant to keep Native American families together. The department filed an amicus brief in the case concluding that the state ...

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'Tortured' Broward preteen shriveled from 115 pounds to 56 at death
MiamiHerald.com
Child welfare experts say the charges against the three professionals — as well as the arrest Friday of a Seminole County caseworker charged with falsifying records in another child death — signal a significant shift in Florida. Until now ...

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Ex-caseworker charged with falsifying records prior to toddle's death bonds ...
WFTV Orlando
The former caseworker who was supervising a 2-year-old Seminole County girl before she was killed has been charged. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced the charges against Jonathan Irizarry, 27, of Altamonte Springs, who is accused ...
Caseworker lied about condition of Rachel Fryer's children, FDLE saysWKMG Orlando
FDLE: Child welfare worker falsified home visit records for Rachel Fryer's ...WESH Orlando
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Forced Adoption in the UK: Child Protection or 'Punishment Without a Crime'?
Yahoo News UK
Aside from Croatia, Britain is the only EU member state that practices forced adoption and for some, it is a secretive system that allows social workers to separate children from loving families without proper justification and with little concern for ...

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Newark man awarded $785K verdict for false arrest in murder case
NJ.com
NEWARK — Edwin Williams was charged with murdering a woman in 2009 and spent more than a year in jail before the charges were dismissed. Four years later, an Essex County jury recently awarded $785,000 to Williams after accepting his argument that ...

After 1950s forced adoption New Yorker is reunited with his Irish mother
IrishCentral
Christopher Quirin, 63, was born to a single mother in Ireland in 1950, a time when such a thing was considered an unspeakable disgrace. Back then Quirin's mother was sent by her parents to the now notorious Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary ...

Woman demands apology for forced adoption of daughter in 1960s
Daily Mail
Like any other new mother, Veronica Smith, from East Sussex, fell in love with her daughter, Catherine, the second she was laid in her arms. But her happiness was not to last because Veronica, then 24, was an unmarried mother brought up in a Catholic ...

Real-life Philomena presses Pope to open Ireland's forced adoption files
Christian Science Monitor
Philomena Lee, whose story inspired the movie 'Philomena,' met yesterday with Pope Francis. She has launched a project to help other Catholic women find their lost children. By Nick Squires, Correspondent February 6, 2014. close. From left, Susan Lohan ...
"Philomena" inspiration doesn't blame Vatican for forced adoptionCBS News
'Philomena' Meets Pope In Hopes Of Reuniting Forced Adoption FamiliesDeadline.com
Real-life 'Philomena,' actor Steve Coogan get audience with Pope FrancisNew York Daily News
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How we saved our grandchild from a forced adoption: Couple came within 48 ...
Daily Mail
A couple came within 48 hours of losing their grand-daughter forever after social workers put her up for adoption. Lee and Katrina Parker told how social workers, operating behind the cover of the notoriously secretive family courts, were 'hell-bent ...

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A Forced Adoption, a Lifetime Quest and a Longing That Never Waned
New York Times (blog)
LONDON — PHILOMENA LEE is 80 now, and she has made peace with many things. Yet her voice still catches when she describes her last glimpse of her firstborn child as he was being taken away to be adopted by an American family.

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Caseworker didn't check on children, arrested for falsifying records
Orlando Sentinel
A child-welfare caseworker was arrested Wednesday, charged with not visiting children for scheduled appointments and falsifying records to cover it up, court documents show. Sashelle Alamo-Rios, 27, was working as a case manager for the Children's ...
FDLE: DCF worker allegedly skipping visits arrestedWFTV Orlando

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