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Baked-in biases challenged by child welfare workers in Pennsylvania

Emily Bregel

March 08, 2018 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

Implicit biases, among other systemic factors, can lead to a disparately punitive approach to child welfare and services for people of color, especially African Americans. Allegheny County has enlisted the help of consultants to help train caseworkers about implicit bias and to track the data about racial differences in treatment by child services agencies. So far, the effort has improved the "disparity between how often black and white children are removed from their homes improved by 28 percent," along with other disparities.

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Flexible, individualized services found to keep families together

Emily Bregel

March 08, 2018 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

For families involved with child protective services, a one-size-fits all mentality has been replaces with comprehensive and individualized services in some counties across the United States. Service providers in Pittsburgh and Alabama are focusing on in-home services, which have found to be cheaper and often more effective.

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Negative cycles broken as families learn better ways to cope

Patty Machelor

March 02, 2018 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

Communities in Arizona, Washington, and Colorado are creating programs that center collaborations to provide guidance and a listening ear to foster healthy relationships between children and parents. These programs, which include education for parents with addiction and trauma-informed approaches to school discipline, help families live better lives.

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Supporting families so kids aren't pulled from home

Patty Machelor

March 02, 2018 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

To help families stay together and decrease cases of child abuse and neglect, programs around the country are using evidence-based solutions to prevent the crises that require government intervention. Solutions like Arizona's "Healthy Families" provide intense parent education and home visits to help families dealing with poverty and related stresses and traumas.

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Upfront investments can ward off 'horrible outcomes'

Patty Machelor

March 02, 2018 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

In El Paso County, Colorado, the economic stress of poverty is recognized as a precursor to many instances of child abuse and neglect. Child safety caseworkers and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) providers collaborate to address some of the underlying issues - like lack of access to child care, housing, and transportation - that increase chances for neglect, a model that has helped families ultimately get off of welfare and into better financial situations.

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Why Foster Care Students In Seattle Are Beating The Odds

Anya Kamenetz

December 17, 2017 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

TreeHouse, a nonprofit in Washington state, achieved an 89 percent five year graduate rate for the hundreds of high school students in the foster care system it serves. This figure is a stark contrast to a 2010 statistic that found only 36 percent of foster students in King County and Seattle were completing high school. By providing the missing resources and guidance to students, TreeHouse hopes to expand the model to all Washington state counties.

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Friends of the Children

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

December 07, 2017 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

The organization, Friends of the Children, is dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty by giving at-risk children adult mentors to help guide them. The program results in kids who avoid teen pregnancy, graduate from high school, and don't end up in the criminal justice system.

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Want Medicaid to cost less? Help first-time mothers in poverty

Jack Graham

November 06, 2017 |

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Response Location: United States

Investing in home-visit programs provides crucial support to low income, first time mothers and reduces overall government healthcare costs. The Nurse-Family Partnership, in coordination with the US Department of Health and Human Services, provides mothers with support from the time of pregnancy and continuing on for two years after birth. Nurses focus not only the health of the child, but also help parents build healthy habits. The benefits extend beyond childhood health, to areas such as reduction in crime.

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Courts That Save Opioid Victims' Family Life

Amelia Schonbek

September 26, 2017 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Dunkirk, New York

The rampant opioid epidemic tearing through communities across the United States is exacerbated by a rigid court system that fails to address individual needs and a severe lack of comprehensive treatment options, even for those who want to get clean. Family Treatment Court, like the one in Chautauqua County, N.Y., provides parents who are addicts an innovative intervention program that includes a broad range of custom-tailored services to permanently quit their drug use and keep their families together.

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Beyond Faith: How One Community Raised 70 Kids from the Texas Foster Care System

Beth Cortez-Neavel

September 05, 2017 |

The Chronicle of Social Change |

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Response Location: United States, Possum Trot, Texas

Possum Trot, Texas is home to a deeply religious African-American community. The people in this rural town are also responsible for adopting or fostering 70 children from Texas' foster care system, often sparked by their religious beliefs and sustained through caseworkers' hard work and community resources.

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