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Schools’ Misuse of Child Welfare System Puts Children at Risk

Coordination and partnership between school systems and child welfare systems is essential. Teachers, who in most states are mandatory reporters, often serve as the frontline when it comes to identifying children in their classrooms who might be suffering from abuse or neglect and filing reports with their local child welfare agencies. As a result, educators and other school staff make up the largest percentage of abuse and neglect reports, and protect countless children every year by. But recently we’ve seen several troubling cases of schools misusing—and thus endangering—this important relationship.

Child Welfare

Implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act

In February 2018, after many years of attempts, the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 was signed into law. Implemented properly, this landmark law has the potential to change the face of child welfare as we know it.

Child Welfare Ending Child Poverty

Bipartisan House Bill will keep Youth Leaving Foster Care from Homelessness

As many as one third of the roughly 20,000 youth who age out of foster care each year experience homelessness in the years after emancipation despite being eligible for a special category of housing vouchers, but a new bill aims to fix that.

Child Welfare

Ending discrimination in the child welfare system

In January of this year, against the backdrop of a dramatic shortage of foster and adoptive homes, the Department of Health and Human Services granted a waiver to South Carolina allowing agencies there to discriminate against people applying to be foster and adoptive parents on the basis of religion.

Child Welfare

Foster, a brief look into our child welfare system

The new HBO film Foster provides an honest and moving look at our nation’s child welfare system through the eyes of those who know it best—the children, youth and families involved in the system and the foster parents and the child welfare workforce who are working to support them.

Child Welfare

Senators Brown, Stabenow and Bennett and Representative Bass introduce legislation to help states transition to Family First

In less than six months, child welfare agencies across the country will have the opportunity to implement the most sweeping reforms made to the child welfare system in almost four decades.

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Schools’ Misuse of Child Welfare System Puts Children at Risk

Implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act

Bipartisan House Bill will keep Youth Leaving Foster Care from Homelessness

Ending discrimination in the child welfare system

Foster, a brief look into our child welfare system

Senators Brown, Stabenow and Bennett and Representative Bass introduce legislation to help states transition to Family First