Sentences with phrase «child welfare cases»

To empower tribes, it gives them concurrent jurisdiction over state child welfare cases (and exclusive jurisdiction over ones arising on their own land).

In most child welfare cases, parents are required to participate in a parent training program with some interactive components, using a wide variety of curricula.

Another judge, in child welfare cases, spoke of relentless «sadness»: «there is no good news».

Gail Barber is a consultant in private practice, providing technical assistance and consultation on system reform addressing child welfare cases involving parental substance abuse leading to involvement with the courts.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal issued a second Compliance Order against the Government of Canada on the First Nations child welfare case on September 15, 2016.

Each year, the Clinic trains up to 20 law students in public defense practice in the Tulalip Tribal Court, with some students also working on civil child welfare cases in the Muckleshoot Tribal Court.

The First Nations child welfare case is the most important Indigenous children's rights case.

Functional Assessment Interviewing Toolkit: Questions to Assess Strengths, Needs, Wants and Desires (PDF - 337 KB) The Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group (2016) Presents a toolkit for child welfare case workers on conducting a family functioning assessment interview.

Presents background information on the incidence of parental substance abuse in Illinois child welfare cases and the federal waiver authority that allowed Illinois to focus on providing treatment services to substance abusing families in Cook County.

ACDSS also surveyed staff and refocused its efforts to support father involvement in child welfare cases throughout the CFA project.

The current level of effort and competency that individual caseworkers, supervisors, and program managers are making toward engaging fathers in child welfare case activities

Examining African American Fathers» Involvement in Permanency Planning: An Effort to Reduce Racial Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System (PDF - 193 KB) Coakley (2008) Children and Youth Services Review, 30 View Abstract Examines the extent to which African - American fathers» involvement in permanency planning influences children's placement outcomes using a secondary data analysis of child welfare case records.

That was a sealed child welfare case on which the media was speculating.

Ceil has argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court on preschool standards in Abbott v. Burke, the landmark educational equity case, and on the issue of permanency for foster children in several child welfare cases.

Then before too long I went back and taught at the University of Michigan law school in the Child Advocacy Law Clinic doing child welfare cases, and working with students.

The Margaret Winchester Child Welfare Advocacy Award honors a staff member or a private attorney who, through his or her zealous advocacy and extraordinary commitment to children and parents in care and protection and other Massachusetts child welfare cases, is a model for other advocates seeking to protect the rights of children and parents.

Family Assessment and Case Planning (PDF - 444 KB) Florida Department of Children and Families (2016) Examines the procedures used by child welfare case managers in Florida for family assessment and evaluation and reviews the components of a family assessment, including reviewing strengths and needs, protective capacities, and family motivation to change.

More about the dads: Exploring associations between nonresident father involvement and child welfare case outcomes.

The results of a special study of participants with open child welfare cases found parents using Triple P had lower rates of new substantiated maltreatment allegations and lower rates of new foster care placements compared to parents who had completed a different prior parenting program offered by the same agency.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study involved the retrospective review of 4,559 public child welfare cases from the state of Kentucky.

Child welfare cases involving immigration issues are considered to be some of the most time consuming and challenging because many social workers are unfamiliar with immigration issues and child welfare systems are not typically equipped to address them.

Represented homeless / runaway youth, pregnant and parenting teens, youth in mental health institutions, parties in Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and respondents in civil child welfare cases.

Support for and supervision of these attorneys is provided by the Private Counsel and Public Defender Divisions (for criminal cases and related matters), the Children and Family Law Division (for child welfare cases), the Youth Advocacy Division (for delinquency, youthful offender, and GCL revocation cases), and the Mental Health Litigation Division (for guardianships and mental health / substance abuse commitments).

The current level of effort and competency that the agency as a whole is making toward engaging fathers in child welfare case activities

Examining African American Fathers» Involvement in Permanency Planning: An Effort to Reduce Racial Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System Coakley Children and Youth Services Review, 30 (4), 2008 View Abstract Examines the extent to which African - American fathers» involvement in permanency planning influences children's placement outcomes using a secondary data analysis of 88 children's child welfare case records.

Engaging Fathers Considerations Edwards (2007) View Abstract and Download Describes strategies that judges can use to ensure fathers are engaged in child welfare cases.

Home schooling was initially an ancillary consideration in a child welfare case involving Phillip and Mary Long, parents of eight home - schooled children.

The Ohio Supreme Court's Children and Families Section invited judges, prosecutors, child welfare agencies, and experts to a recent forum to try to improve collaboration in child welfare cases.

Melody's experience also includes representing the State in child welfare cases.

A majority of family law cases and child welfare cases are also heard by the Provincial Court.

Kinship Caregivers / Grandparents Raising Grandchildren / Custodial Relatives Connecticut 211 Explains the varying routes for relatives to gain legal custody in child welfare cases.

Engage incarcerated parents, when appropriate, early and regularly throughout a child welfare case — from arrest to release — to help improve permanency outcomes

Parents» Pasts and Families» Futures: Using Family Assessments to Inform Perspectives on Reasonable Efforts and Reunification (PDF - 389 KB) Smithgall, DeCoursey, Yang, & Haseltine (2012) The University of Chicago, Chapin Hall Examines the use of family functioning assessments to better address the needs of parents and families to improve reunification efforts in child welfare cases.

Fatherhood programs can look for opportunities to talk with child welfare agencies about the research that shows how children benefit when fathers are engaged in child welfare cases.

I also offer forensic consulting in divorce and custody matters, special education advocacy, and in child welfare cases.»