Michigan Department of Health and Human Services – July 29, 2020The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is getting a boost to its efforts to find loving adoptive homes for children more quickly from the Dave Thomas Foundation … Read More
Fostercare
Care4Kids Program
This fact sheet explains the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Department of Children and Families partnered to implement Care4Kids, an innovative program designed to offer comprehensive and coordinated health services for children and youth in foster care. The … Read More
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Editorial: State needs to continue to improve foster care
Oregon’s child welfare department increasingly started sending some foster children to out-of- state facilities in 2018. The state was facing a crisis with a lack of options for foster care. Sen. Gelser deserves the thanks of Oregonians for her fight … Read More
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Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act
Public Law 113–183113th CongressAn ActTo prevent and address sex trafficking of children in foster care, to extend and improve adoption incentives, and to improve international child support recovery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of … Read More
Human Trafficking and Child Welfare: A Guide for Caseworkers
Child welfare caseworkers can be an invaluable resource in helping communities respond to the human trafficking of children. Children involved with child welfare are at risk for being targeted by traffickers because of their potentially unstable living situations, physical distance … Read More
Without Family, U.S. Children in Foster Care Easy Prey for Human Traffickers
Without family, U.S. children in foster care easy prey for human traffickers Thomson Reuters Foundation – May 03, 2018 Hundreds of thousands of U.S. children live in foster care, prey to predator sex traffickers who may find their young victims … Read More
Knowing the Numbers: Accessing and Using Child Welfare
Knowing the Numbers: Accessing and Using Child Welfare This brief, written by Child Trends for First Focus State Policy Advocacy and Reform Center (SPARC), provides an overview of useful data sources for the child welfare community, including what the major … Read More
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Trends in Foster Care and Adoption: FY2002-FY2012
Trends in Foster Care and Adoption: FY2002-FY2012 (Based on Data Submitted by States as of July 19, 2013). United States. Children’s Bureau has released a new report, September 2013. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/trends_fostercare_adoption2012.pdf
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Updated Database on Foster Care Placements
NCCPR has updated its interactive database on foster care placements. The database shows the proportion of children in each type of “care” (kinship foster care, foster care with strangers, group homes and institutions, etc.) in 2009 and 2010. Data are … Read More
Relative Caregiving Facts FFY 2014: Louisiana
This fact sheet provides statistics on number and characteristics of foster children living with relative foster families in Louisiana and in the United States. Information is provided on the number of foster children living with relatives, the age of the … Read More