Amanda and Rozy Newell’s lives started with the heartbreak that is all too common for kids who enter foster care. However, their story is an example of what can happen when children in state care get the help they need. Both girls were featured in a column from The Dallas Morning News: By the time […]
Child protective worker Jean LaCroix, 46, has been fired by Florida’s Department of Children & Families (DCF) for allegedly having sex with a teenage girl in foster care. LaCroix met the girl when he was assigned to her case for a month last fall, but court documents show the illegal sexual relationship lasted for months. […]
Marcia Robinson Lowry, executive director of Children’s Rights, has heard heartwarming stories of families safely reuniting after their kids spent time in foster care. In Georgia, Donald, a single father, welcomed his children home with the assistance of a reunification counselor who helped him turn his life around and work on parenting skills and anger […]
Miami police and prosecutors have arrested four men accused of running a human trafficking and prostitution ring that targeted abused and neglected girls in foster care. This is the latest in a string of tragic stories coming out of Florida’s troubled Department of Children & Families (DCF). The Miami-Herald reports: Beginning in January of 2011, […]
Michigan has made noteworthy steps toward overhauling its long-troubled child welfare system, according to the first monitoring report tracking progress made by the Snyder Administration’s new management at the Department of Human Services (DHS). MLive reports: In a federal courtroom Monday afternoon, both a court-appointed monitor and the group that brought the lawsuit, Children’s Rights, […]
Carisse Phillips knew that entering foster care was a chance at a better life, but still wasn’t sure what to expect. Just 10 months after joining the home of veteran foster parents Cheryl and David Shive, Carisse’s life has changed in ways she never could have imagined. The Gazette reports: “Before I went into foster […]
Illinois lawmakers have approved a budget that could lead to layoffs in the state’s troubled Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and reduce programs that have helped keep kids out of foster care. Governor Pat Quinn called the cuts “unacceptable” and could make changes before signing the budget by the July 1 deadline. The […]
A trio of convictions in a shocking Los Angeles child torture and abuse case has shed new light on failings in the county’s beleaguered Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). The Los Angeles Times reports: A 5-year-old boy, known only as Johnny, was rescued from a dark closet in San Bernardino County in 2009. […]
The hard part was supposed to be over for R.H., a young boy in Oregon’s child welfare system, when he was adopted by foster parents Alona and Roger Hartwig. However the Department of Human Services (DHS) repeatedly failed to protect him and other children from the Hartwig’s horrific abuse, according to a suit filed on […]
For many, turning 18 means being one step closer to becoming a happy, successful adult. Unfortunately, for some foster youth turning 18 means they’re on their own. The Epoch Times reports: “People don’t realize that at 18, when their own kids are going to prom or preparing for college, these kids are going to homelessness,” […]
