Foster Care – Social Services Involvement Survey We are asking for your help as a part of a survey we are conducting regarding foster care experiences in yours or your childrens lives. Your response to this survey is totally voluntary and anonymous, but it would be very helpful if you do respond. You may […]
Top 10 Five Minute Bonding Activities From Carrie Craft, Your Guide to Adoption / Foster Care. These activities are not for every foster/adoptive parent or every foster/adoptive child. Only do what is comfortable for you and your foster/adopted child. Keep in mind: Child’s Age – Chronological and Emotional Child’s History of Abuse and/or Neglect Comfort […]
Article published Feb 5, 2008 DCF to review personnel records Agency spokesman faces child-porn charges By Bill Cotterell FLORIDA CAPITAL BUREAU POLITICAL EDITOR The head of the Department of Children and Families, “horrified and shocked” by the arrest of his agency spokesman on child-pornography charges, Monday ordered a review of personnel records for all DCF […]
I wonder if this could’ve been stopped sooner with the right kind of help in a system that’s overrun by false allegations and unsubstantiated abuse reports … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The deaths of four children whose bodies were discovered Wednesday in a Washington home are being treated as suspected homicides, but the remains are so […]
Abusive Ex-husband Makes Sure Woman Loses Son Its Almost Tuesday – Read Our Story on http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com January 8, 2008. By Julia Browne RSS Del.icio.us Seed Newsvine Facebook Dallas, TX: Mary’s abusive husband, Robbie, vowed to make her pay if she left him. She dared escape domestic violence, but due to additional victimization by Child Protection […]
Malicious Mother Syndrome – I say it is CHILD ABUSE SYNDROME. While I’ve heard Parental Alienation Syndrome tossed around for years, a new term I’ve not seen before suddenly appeared before me in wikipedia – and I am amazed… First of all, I want to say, if a couple divorces, using the child as a […]
My apologies for being stagnant as of late. Life has been happening, and it hasn’t always been easy.. Anyhow, this article is a few years old but the problems aren’t – they continue today. I hail Comptroller Strayhorn for the work she did in “Forgotten Children” and if you have not read the report and […]
If you haven’t read my story, you can find it here –Its Almost Tuesday, The True Story. This is my 4th Christmas without my son. The first was Christmas 2004; but it is as devastating for me today as then… if not more. It just doesn’t show as much. I have not spoken to my […]
Top 10 Five Minute Bonding Activities From Carrie Craft, Your Guide to Adoption / Foster Care. FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now! These activities are not for every foster/adoptive parent or every foster/adoptive child. Only do what is comfortable for you and your foster/adopted child. Keep in mind: Child’s Age – Chronological and Emotional Child’s History […]
I recently had a situation in my own life come about with my 17 year old daughter and her use of the internet. To respect her privacy, I won’t go into it, but suffice it to say, I had some grave concerns with what she was doing, who she was talking to, and the information […]
Documents: Counties changed, destroyed records in starvation case (AP) Caseworkers from two neighboring counties and a state agency doctored or destroyed records pertaining to a 4-year-old girl whose starved body was found stuffed into a picnic cooler, according to a newspaper’s review of court documents. One caseworker testified in a pretrial deposition that her […]
14 different foster homes, 10 different schools its worth something I suppose – in Seattle, it awarded $1.52 million to two ex-foster children; but is it worth it at all? Of course not. One of the two ex-foster children wouldn’t say its worth it those cold nights he lived on the streets. Suffering the trauma […]
A photo of Whitney Williams, who was only 2-years-old when she died after being physically abused. 09/27/2005 PRINCESS ANNE, Md. (AP)– The Somerset County Department of Social Services on Monday settled a suit brought by the father of a fatally abused child for $50,000. The father, Clark Bell, sued Somerset County Social Services for $1 […]
A lawsuit has been filed and is seeking class action status against the department alleging violations of constitutional rights. Nine Latina child care workers claim the state came into their homes and seized personal records in search of ‘phantom children’. The lawsuit also alleges discrimination against child care workers on the basis of ethnicity and […]
Yakima County, WA Yakima County, WA: (May-26-07) Tim Farris, a Bellingham, WA lawyer and critic of Washington’s foster-care system, has been known to repeatedly file lawsuits against the State Department of Social and Health Services. He filed one more lawsuit against the department recently, on behalf of injured children, accusing the department and social workers […]
Washington, DC: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that Mattel has received more than 400 reports of magnets coming loose in products such as Polly Pocket, Doggie Day Care, Barbie & Tanner, Batman and “Sarge” Die Cast toy cars. Unfortunately, under the Bush administration, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission staff has been cut […]
Baltimore, MD: (Dec-13-07) A lawsuit was brought against the state by the mother of a 6-year-old, alleging violation of rights. The suit claimed that Brandon, the severely brain-damaged boy lives in a hospital bed in the front room of his Southwest Baltimore home, being fed through a tube and undergoing daily dialysis because of abuse […]
Sunday, December 2, 2007 Last modified Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:03 AM EST Schaefer: Trial by jury needed to remove child By Tom Law Source: The Toccoa Record State Sen. Nancy Schaefer last week called for an overhaul of the state’s child protection services provided through the Department of Family and Children’s Services (DFCS). Among […]
