Advocates raise doubts about Florida child welfare reforms
Watkins said that while child-protective investigators are fact-finders, and case managers are “scorekeepers on how parents and their kids are doing,” it is the treatment programs — from mental health to substance abuse — that result in meaningful …
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Will Hill likely 'done' with Giants as safety faces another drug-related …
Paul Sancya/AP Giants safety Will Hill has been on the run from drug trouble for years, but after his latest violation of the league's drug policy he may have run himself right out of the NFL. After he endured his second … Then last season he was …
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Child Welfare Effort Avoids Taking Kids from Home by Giving them One
To be eligible, all families had to have been chronically homeless, have a head of household who was substance abusing or mentally ill, and have children in foster care or at risk of placement. Half the heads of household also reported that their own …
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Support Groups Erie Times-News
Cancer support group for people who have been diagnosed with cancer and their family members to share thoughts, hopes, anger and fears about cancer meets on the third Thursday of each month, 7 p.m., at St. Mark Catholic Center, 429 E. Grandview Blvd …
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Coping with mothers who neglect their kids
A drug addict who has already lost six children to the foster care system is jailed after her two little boys wander into a liquor store alone, hungry and looking for food. The toddlers — 2 and 3 years old — are … The group has one of the only …
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Parental substance abuse the main reason kids end up in foster care
All three of Bissell's children were taken away as a direct result of her drug addiction. When her son was in second grade, he went to live with his father. She later had two more kids who were removed from her care — her mother has custody of one and …
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