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CPS is removing more kids; gov.: Statistics irrelevant By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services Tucson,Arizona | Published: 08.23.2007 http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/197794.php PHOENIX — The number of children being removed from homes by Child Protective Services is increasing at a rate...

Hardin County social workers face disciplinary action 07:20 AM EDT on Thursday, August 23, 2007 http://www.whas11.com/topstories/stories/082307whasasTopHardinCoSocialWorkers.605877af.html FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- The state has placed five Hardin County-based social workers on paid leave for 60...

Steiny: Life sentence for children of prisoners By Julia Steiny, Syndicated columnist GHS New! Sun Aug 26, 2007, 12:29 AM EDT http://www.milforddailynews.com/opinion/x1385105223 There are some children who matter so little that no government agency bothers to count or keep statistical track of...

Slain children remembered at memorial service SHERYL KORNMAN Tucson Citizen Published: 08.26.2007 http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/61184.php Jamie Hallum read Ariana and Tyler Payne's favorite storybook, "Goodnight Moon," to them one last time at a somber memorial service for her dead...

Where is the Outrage for OUR Kids? http://prairieguy.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/where-is-the-outrage-for-our-kids/ Yesterday (8/20/07) I was watching CNN’S program, “The Situation Room.� One segment of the program is, “The Cafferty Files.� It is a segment where correspondent Jack...

Foster care system is in crisis http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070826/OPINION01/708260311 Michigan's foster care system is in crisis. That's not a new revelation, but it bears repeating, because in spite of several deaths and a growing record of failure, we're...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A published report says guidelines that allow Department of Human Services workers to also become foster parents have led to some complaints. http://www.kjrh.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=1f14c935-a6d7-4792-8a60-66f4fcdc1f15 They include one from a former DHS...

Foster-care system under scrutiny Lori Holcomb The Enquirer http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070826/NEWS01/708260314 It's an hour before dinner and Brian and Kim Gerber's Bedford home is organized madness. Four teenage girls work an assembly line of washing and...

Florida Department of Children & Families negligent for removing children from family, judge rules Allegations against parents dropped By Jon Burstein | South Florida Sun-Sentinel August 25, 2007 www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbevans0825nbaug25,0,7563353.story

Agency to close home for teens in foster care By Kathleen Wilson (Contact) Wednesday, August 22, 2007 http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/aug/22/agency-to-close-home-for-teens-in-foster-care/ A residential program that prepares Ventura County teenagers to leave foster care is closing...

NATIONAL COALITION FOR CHILD PROTECTION REFORM 53 Skyhill Road (Suite 202) / Alexandria, Virginia, 22314 Phone and Fax: (703) 212-2006 / e-mail: / www.nccpr.org For release: For further information, Contact: Monday, August 20, 2007, 12:00 noon Richard Wexler, Executive...

DSHS mismanagement hurts kids; we must break it up now Other views State Sen Val Stevens As ranking Republican and a member of the Senate Human Services and Corrections Committee for 11 years, I have seen the tragic results of the Department of Social and Health Services'...

Arizona appears poised to repeat CPS mistakes Richard Wexler Aug. 21, 2007 12:00 AM http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0821wexler21.html Four days after she first took office, Gov. Janet Napolitano made a mistake that has haunted the state's vulnerable children ever...

Critics want CPS records open to public Mary K. Reinhart, Tribune http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/95522 The state’s child welfare system has needlessly taken poor children away from their families, according to critics demanding that Child Protective Services open its records to the...

Tussle, tussle, boil and fussle over DSHS http://www.theolympian.com/adamwilson/story/195070.html State Sen Val Stevens, The Olympian’s editorial board, and the disgruntled Internet masses wacked on DSHS this weekend. Stevens went into detail Saturday about splitting the Children’s...

I-Team: Inaction in Case of 2 Young Girls Diagnosed With STD http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6961129 Sexually transmitted diseases are generally considered the kind of problem that is kept private. Unless it's your child is diagnosed with the disease. Local police and CPS workers...

'Perennial Panic' Plagues Arizona Child Welfare http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,162635.shtml PHOENIX, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Arizona child welfare functions in a state of "perennial panic," endangering children even as it needlessly destroys thousands of...

Study: Arizona should increase child welfare spending by $54M SHERYL KORNMAN Tucson Citizen http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/60639.php A study by a nonprofit child welfare watchdog group calls for Arizona to boost child welfare spending in 2008 by $54 million and spend most of that...

Abuse, adoption scam may snare accused's son, prosecutor says By BRIAN SKOLOFF | Associated Press Writer 3:13 PM EDT, August 21, 2007 http://www.amny.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--abuse-adoptedchil0821aug21,0,7582742.story WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Prosecutors are considering charges...

CPS draws new scrutiny, lawmakers taking public look at child deaths http://www.mohavedailynews.com/articles/2007/08/26/news/state/state1.txt Saturday, August 25, 2007 8:58 PM PDT PHOENIX (AP) - State lawmakers are likely to propose more transparency and other changes for state Child Protective...