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Did you know that children and families of color are more likely to experience poverty and come to the attention of the child welfare system for child abuse and neglect? In fact, over 50% of black children will experience a child welfare investigation before the age of 18. We can't ignore the systemic issues that are causing this to happen. We need to change how our society values and cares for all children and families. This means addressing inequity and injustice, so all families benefit from policies, programs, and systems that ensure access to the resources and support they need to thrive before a crisis happens. As the nation’s oldest and largest organization dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect, PCA America is connecting families, communities, elected officials, businesses, and prevention workers across the country to create safe, stable, and nurturing environments for all children. Learn how PCA America's Theory of Change provides a game plan for supporting families from the start: https://lnkd.in/ez2SM5W7 #PCAAmerica #PrimaryPreventionEcosystem #ThrivingFamilies #PreventionIsPossible #ChildWellbeing #DidYouKnow #PCAANorthStar #TransformingTheNarrative #TheoryOfChange

One of the ways we can change the future of child welfare is by focusing on helping adults who have suffered trauma as children to break cycles of abuse and neglect. In this episode, Rhoni Bruhn, our Family Mentor Coordinator, joins us again to talk about how to work with adults in hard places and what being a mentor for adults looks like. If you're curious about becoming a mentor with Christian Heritage, you can reach out to Rhoni by emailing her at [email protected].

➡️ Child welfare agencies receive around 3.9 million reports involving 7.1 million children in a given year. Safe Families is a family preservation movement that keeps children from unnecessarily entering the foster care system by providing prevention support to families facing crisis. Will you be a part of the solution? #safefamilies #keepchildrensafe #familiestogether #ittakesavillage #supportparents #ThursdayThought #trending #childwelfare (Stats from Children's Right 2023 Fact Sheet)

Repeal CAPTA Coalition was in FULL FORCE at the Capitol yesterday, January 31, 2024, to mark the beginning of the end of the 50 year reign of what Prof. Dorothy Roberts calls the “benevolent terror” of “child protective services/CPS” - more accurately termed the Family Police. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974, with its system of mandated reporting, investigation, prosecution, child removal, and “treatment” , institutionalized the multi-billion dollar, child commodification, family destroying foster, adoptive, and child welfare “treatment/services” industry. #ShiningTheLight “Separating children from their families and making them wards of the state is far more profitable for governments and their private industry partners than reunification with the children’s families. The commodification of Black children generates a steady stream of open-ended funding from federal taxpayers’ dollars to state and local governments and agencies that are rewarded for removing children from their families, prolonging their stay in state custody, and terminating parental rights. In just under fifty years since the enactment of CAPTA in 1974 with an authorization of $86 million to be spent over three years, the child abuse and neglect industry has grown into a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate.” https://lnkd.in/gR93Ky_F #RepealCaptaNow

▶️ Child welfare agencies receive around 3.9 million reports involving 7.1 million children in a given year. Safe Families is a family preservation movement that keeps children from unnecessarily entering the foster care system by providing prevention support to families facing crisis. Will you be a part of the solution? #safefamilies #childrensafe #familiestogether #ittakesavillage #supportparents #ThursdayThought #trending #childwelfare (Stats from Children's Right 2023 Fact Sheet)

Urge the United States Congress to act immediately to stop the reprehensible practice of forced family separation which affects hundreds of thousands of children and families annually. Not only do these families lose their vital connection to each other, they face ongoing trauma and abuse from the ‘System‘ that separated them. Call and write your United States Congress Members to demand that federals reforms are enacted to the US Child Welfare System to make state care a safe, nurturing, supportive, healthy, and happy environment. The trauma inflicted by The Child Welfare System on children and families is so impactful, it is passed down through generations affecting the mental health and outcomes of the victims‘ descendants for generations to come. https://lnkd.in/eciS2BZX #ChildWelfare #FosterCare #REFORMSNOW #Advocacy #GetInvolved #ChildAbuse #Trauma #ChildNeglect #ChildTrafficking #CPS #FamilySeparation #ChildrensRights #ParentsRights #FamilyPreservation

#DidYouKnow: In Florida, domestic violence is responsible for as many 200 deaths annually and child maltreatment occurs in up to 60% of families where domestic violence occurs. The Florida Institute for Child Welfare is working to bridge the gaps for child welfare professionals working with families exposed to domestic violence. SAFER, the latest Advanced Certification course from our ALIGN program, is a free, online course designed specifically for child welfare case managers and child protective investigators in Florida to learn the best practices for engagement with families experiencing domestic violence. The first cohort of SAFER begins in October. Applications are due by September 27. Learn more at FICW.FSU.EDU/SAFER Data Source: Benjamin Houseman & George Semien, 2022 published in National Library of Medicine journal. #CWWorkforce #WeAreChildWelfare #Professionaldevelopment #Socialwork #FICWGROW #TDVAM2023 #DomesticViolenceAwareness #Domesticawarenessprevention #onlinecourse #FloridaStateUniversity

You may have seen the terms "formal" and "informal" used in our social media posts before. Let's talk about what we mean when we use those terms! Formal refers to circumstances when children are in the care of a relative or non-related extended family member and are in the custody of a public child welfare agency. These families will have a foster care worker. Informal refers to circumstances when children live with grandparents or other relatives and are not in the custody of a public child welfare agency. These families will not have a foster care worker but may have had contact with Child Protective Services. Informal families might have no legal relationship to the children in their care, or they might have Power of Attorney (POA), guardianship, or another legal relationship. For more information, contact the Kinship Care Resource Center at [email protected] or 800-535-1218. #KinshipCare #Caregiver #KCRC #KinshipCareResourceCenter #MSU #MichiganState #MichiganStateUniversity #Michigan #Training #Support #SupportGroup #Grandparents #Grandchildren

In light of the growing body of evidence that economic and concrete supports can keep children safely at home and prevent entry to foster care, more and more jurisidictions are building flexible funding into their child welfare prevention programs. While models vary, these interventions recognize that family needs differ, that they often require an urgent response, and that child welfare programs have a responsibility to ensure that poverty does not become the basis for more intrusive intervention in families’ lives. This Casey Family Programs strategy brief explains how three states (Indiana, Kentucky and Wisconsin) are responding to this challenge. https://lnkd.in/dga3vQTd

It's #National Foster Care Month. Too many American families find themselves struggling because of gaps in health, economic, and #HumanServices systems. And too often families are sent to the child welfare system for well-being needs and support that #ChildWelfare was not designed to provide. We need a multi-system approach designed to meet family needs from the start and prevent children from entering the foster care system when not necessary. Explore a new strategic framework for this child and family well-being system: https://lnkd.in/gxqsb7kq