Sentences with phrase «from child welfare»

Each organization, from the child welfare agency to the family courts to advocates to NGOs, is driven to find the best outcome for each child and family.

She has worked in a variety of settings from child welfare to social science research.

This qualitative study examined the impact of adoption on the educational experiences of older youths with disabilities who were adopted from the child welfare system.

A report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council15 stated that these needs could be addressed through regularized referrals from the child welfare system to the early intervention system for children with developmental delays or disabilities; subsequent federal reauthorizations of the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (Part C) both included requirements for establishing such linkages.

Protecting Children, 26 (2), 2011 Presents lessons learned from child welfare researchers and practioners from across the nation from the National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System.

Eligibility is open to all adoptive, kinship, and permanent legal custodian placements from the child welfare system.

Forty - five couples were interviewed for this study; 30 of the couples had adopted from the child welfare system and 15 had adopted an infant domestically.

This study was undertaken for two purposes — to gain insight into the issue of over-representation from the child welfare community, and to examine the programs and practices child welfare agencies are implementing to serve children and families of color.

On June 17, 2011 more than 130 professionals from child welfare, behavioral health, education, and public health came together to learn about reflective supervision and why it must be an essential component of a trauma informed service system for children.

The screeners also gain expertise from the child welfare caseworkers» practice experience and expertise in child welfare policies and, in some cases, court procedures.

About Single Mother Adoption: The Role of the Single Mother in Adoption of Children From the Child Welfare System Child Welfare League of America Describes the significant role played by single women who adopt children from the child welfare system, especially in the adoption of older and minority children.

Evidence from child welfare services research suggests that African - American families are less likely to receive in - home and reunification services (Landsverk et al., 1996).

(2011) Protecting Children, 26 (2) Presents lessons learned from child welfare researchers and practitioners from across the nation from the National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System.

It was reviewed because it was identified by the topic expert as a program being used in the field, or it is being marketed and / or used in California with children receiving services from child welfare or related systems and their parents / caregivers.

These professionals are required for assistance in selling all types of policies right from child welfare to life insurance.

While it remains unknown how many people purchased the app, Apple drew intense criticism from child welfare groups such as the Sarah Jane Brain Project.

Instead, he said, researchers should include data from child welfare or other administrative data sets to better capture the prevalence of abuse or neglect at a population level.

ECPC provides parenting education groups and counseling to the residents and training for staff at homeless and domestic violence shelters to counteract serious risk factors including homelessness, poverty, youth or emancipation from the child welfare system.

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Although infrequent, such incidents bring bad press, and with it pressure from international child welfare organizations like UNICEF and and Save the Children to improve - or shut down - foreign adoptions.

[10] Examples of money income — sometimes referred to as «cash income» — include: wages and salaries; income from dividends; earnings from self - employment; rental income; child support and alimony payments; Social Security, disability, and unemployment benefits; cash welfare assistance; and pensions and other retirement income.

The child - welfare investigators, though, closed the case with no action after concluding that Cruz was not a threat, had not been mistreated by his mother, that he was receiving adequate care from a counselor at Henderson Mental Health, and was attending school.

Income from certain sources (such as unemployment compensation, dividends, interest, worker's compensation, welfare, social security, or child support) is not considered «earned income.»

Other work - from - home ideas include catering services for birthday parties, small weddings and anniversaries; a babysitting service, which may require licensing from local health and child welfare services; a pet - sitting service, which may require approvals from your landlord and potentially your neighbors; and tutoring services for middle and high - school students.

Other writers have described other causes: the lobbying for same - sex marriage, the feminists» push for liberation from marriage duties, their legislative victories in getting states to adopt unilateral divorce, the culture's glorification of single moms, and the financial incentives for illegitimacy and divorce that flow from the welfare, child support, and domestic violence bureaucracies.

Globalization wreaks havoc on this primary life - giving relation, for example, by separating women from their children across enormous geographical distances as they seek to secure the welfare of their families.

She had several children from more than one man, was on welfare and going to church.

«Utopia - writing,» she argues, interacted with social experimentation and the more popular imagination to create social innovations in every sphere from the economic (the trade union movement, profit - sharing, social security, scientific management) through political (parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage) to the social (universal education, child welfare practices, women s «emancipation,» New Towns, social planning.

These statements underline a host of hazards confronting children — from gun violence to poverty - and call for generous welfare policies.

The father (and now mother) is taken from the home and it is decades before the children can contribute in a meaningful way to the family's welfare in our contemporary hi - tech economy.

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

«A person commits an offense,» the code reads, «if the person has cause to believe that a child's welfare has been or may be further adversely affected by abuse or neglect and knowingly fails to report in accordance with Section 34.02 of this Code» (Section 34.04) This is augmented by another section that describes who is exempt from the provisions:

The family is central to Catholic social teaching, and that is clear from the bishops» statements on taxes, welfare, children, crime, and jobs.

The court also heard that the child, who was taken from her mother after police became concerned for her welfare, could still be taken to her grandmother's country of origin if a permanent order was made to grant her care of the girl.

His final conclusion, that liberalism must incorporate a sense of «value pluralism» to allow for vigorous state defense of children's interests, is presented in such an off - handed manner that it raises far more questions than it resolves» for instance, how to distinguish Tubbs» pro-family state action from the welfare - state leviathan.

In the center at North Carolina, he received a call for help from a woman in California who was struggling on her own to raise two troubled children on welfare.

After rejecting the offer, Robinson, who was intermittently on welfare from the time of the child's birth in February 1992 until December 1995, filed a suit seeking more than $ 11,000 per month that claimed, «Mr. Howard's initial response... was that the birth was [my] choice and therefore he should not have to pay child support.»

In any case, agencies having contact with children generally do not enquire about the father's PR status, and will usually only do so where there is evidence of substantial conflict with or estrangement from the mother, or major child welfare concerns regarding the father's care of the child.

Secondly, if the father wants to register against the mother's wishes, the court, whilst it can not deny PR to any parent on child welfare grounds (as it currently prevented from doing so except for unmarried fathers), the court can use a Section 8 order to limit the exercise of PR by any parent on child welfare grounds.

• Where there are concerns for a child's welfare or safety, of whatever sort, the fact of his not having PR could discourage him from feeling responsible and empowered — and could make it less likely that agencies engage with him effectively as risk and / or resource.

It's not exactly clear what's behind the trend of more parents moving away from corporal punishment — it could be a result of doctors and other child health and welfare experts spreading the word about extensive and well - researched evidence showing a clear link between corporal punishment and negative outcomes for kids, or it could be that this form of punishing kids is less socially acceptable than it used to be, or a combination of both factors.

Among other things, she addressed the complaints from grassroots reformers that they — not Jamie Oliver — should be getting attention and credit: «Those of us who are truly concerned about the welfare of America's children, health care system, and food supply should be grateful that long - awaited and much - needed attention to what has become at best a national embarrassment, and at worst a national crisis, has finally arrived.»

The campaign fights such «license to discriminate» bills on the state and federal level and builds support for the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, a federal bill prohibiting child welfare agencies that receive taxpayer funds from discriminating against LGBTQ youth or prospective foster and adoptive parChild Deserves a Family Act, a federal bill prohibiting child welfare agencies that receive taxpayer funds from discriminating against LGBTQ youth or prospective foster and adoptive parchild welfare agencies that receive taxpayer funds from discriminating against LGBTQ youth or prospective foster and adoptive parents.

Parents always need to focus on the welfare of their children and try to shelter them from the conflict, whenever possible.

The Federal Adoption 2002 initiative brought pressure on the U.S. child welfare system to move children from temporary care into permanent family

In the spring of 2010, officials in Russia demanded a new bilateral agreement based on concerns about the welfare of children adopted from Russia by U.S. families.

And due to technicalities with the house I owned, I wasn't even eligible for welfare and still wasn't receiving any child support from my ex.

The state child welfare system is intended to protect children from abuse and neglect.

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All families can benefit from support in some way; the principles of family support should be incorporated into casework across the child welfare service continuum.

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