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The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, WadeHorn of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologistwho says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blownup.



 
 
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Old August 7th 07, 06:15 AM posted to alt.support.child-protective-services,alt.support.foster-parents,alt.dads-rights.unmoderated,alt.parenting.spanking
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Default The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, WadeHorn of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologistwho says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blownup.

Facts on Foster Care in America
A Grim Picture for Many Kids, but There Are Reasons for Hope

May 30, 2006 —

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991

Each week, nearly 60,000 children in the United States are reported as
abused or neglected, with nearly 900,000 confirmed abuse victims in
2004. About 520,000 of those children end up in foster care each year --
double the number 25 years ago. Approximately 800,000 children every
year come in contact with the foster care system.

Watch ABC News' and "Primetime's" special series on foster care, "A Call
to Action: Saving Our Children," beginning Thursday, June 1.

Despite more than a decade of intended reform, the nation's foster care
system is still overcrowded and rife with problems. But taxpayers are
spending $22 billion a year -- or $40,000 a child -- on foster care
programs.

The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up. He's most critical of the way foster care gets funded
by the federal government -- $5 billion that goes mostly, he says, to
keeping kids in foster care.

There are no provisions for treatment, prevention, family support, or
aging out -- just for supporting things as they are. He wants to rethink
foster care on a national level.

Foster Care Statistics:

On September 30, 2004, 518,000 children were in the U.S. foster care
system. Most children are placed in foster care temporarily due to
parental abuse or neglect.

A record 304,000 children entered the system in 2004, according to one
study. Much of the rise was due to methamphetamine use. Experts estimate
that 80 to 90 percent of foster care placements can be traced to
substance abuse.

About 40,000 infants are placed in foster care every year.

126,000 children are currently available for adoption.

On average, children stay in the system for almost three years (31
months) before either being reunited with their families or adopted.
Almost 20 percent wait five years or more. Children have on average
three different foster care placements. Frequent moves in and out of the
homes of strangers can be profoundly unsettling for children, and it is
not uncommon to hear of children who have been in 20 or 30 different
homes. Many have been separated not only from their parents, but from
their siblings.

More than 20,000 children each year never leave the system -- they
remain in foster care until they "age out."

Thirty percent of the homeless in America and some 25 percent of those
in prison were once in foster care.

44 percent (or about 241,000 children) have reunification with their
birth families as their case goal.

48 percent were in foster family homes (non-relative), 24 percent were
in relative foster homes, 18 percent were in group homes or
institutions, 4 percent were in pre-adoptive homes, and 6 percent were
in other placement types.

The average age of a foster child is 10. Half are 10 or under.

40 percent of foster children are white; 34 are black; 18 percent are
Hispanic.

Case workers burn out and leave the profession in very high numbers. The
annual turnover rate in the child welfare workforce is more than 20 percent.

The recommended number of cases for a social worker is 17. In some
states, the number is three or four times that number.

Click here for more statistics from the Administration of Children and
Families, at the Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Glimmers of Hope

Despite ambitious and expensive public and privately funded pilot
programs in communities around the country, and despite the heroic
efforts of think tanks, community organizations, foster and adoptive
parents, mentors and some members of the religious community, there is
no national approach or policy regarding child welfare in this country.

As the public policy pendulum swings back and forth between family
preservation (keeping children with their biological parents) and
protecting children by placing them in foster care -- most experts now
agree that the best thing to do is try to leave them at home if at all
possible and provide good services to help the family cope.

If that's not possible, the next best solution is to have family members
or nearby foster parents take the kids in, and at the same time provide
a group of professionals (a therapist, a pediatrician, a social worker,
a tutor) to help the kids and the adults. This is called "wraparound
services" and has been working well in pilot programs in this country
and in others, like England. This is designed to prevent a child from
falling through the cracks, which happens all too often when one
over-burdened social worker is the only one responsible for the safety
of a child.

To compound the problem, not nearly enough is being done for children
leaving the system when they become adults, who often receive a small
check ($600 in Florida) and a pat on the back. How many parents of
well-adjusted typical children send their kids out into the world with
hardly any support when they turn 18?

Using the extraordinary resources of ABC News, we can make a difference
-- putting foster care and child welfare on the policy map, and starting
an open discussion of where the system is going and what needs to be
done. This is a critical national issue, because these children will be
costing us billions of dollars more down the line. They are the future,
and they are our children. Yet most people think of foster kids as some
one else's children, and someone else's problem.

But there is reason for hope, too. Across the country, we found heroes,
individuals and institutions offering services, ideas, hope. There are
dozens of foundations and organizations a mouse click away, in every
community in this country, offering innovative solutions and a few
practical things that all of us can do to help the children who need it
most.

A few obvious solutions: lighten social workers' case loads to the
recommended number, under 20; compensate foster parents more fairly and
in return demand they keep children, even when they act out; offer
services to children aging out of the system; help teach young parents
skills they need to care for their children; place foster children near
their parents, or with extended family whenever possible; smooth the way
for loving foster parents to adopt; make foster care a national priority.

Consider this a call to action, a chance to do something to help save a
life before it is too late. For more information on how you can help,
Click Here.

Copyright © 2007 ABC News Internet Ventures



CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NSA / CIA
WIRETAPPING PROGRAM....

CPS Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.

every parent should read this .pdf from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*

Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5

CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...


BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...

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Old August 7th 07, 08:29 PM posted to alt.support.child-protective-services,alt.support.foster-parents,alt.dads-rights.unmoderated,alt.parenting.spanking
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Default The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up.

The STATE is the worst possible parent.
If they would end the removal of children using
trivia, caseworker lies, perjury and contractors
who feel they are part of the "child protection team"
there would be less need in the first place.

Remove the financial "perverse incentives" and that
would help also.

Remove the immunities and "prosecutors descretion"
when it comes to caseworker perjury and that would help.

If the courts would automatically use "clear and convincing"
where child removal is at issue or might later be, and stop
using the INAPPROPRIATE "preponderance" lousy
standard for burden of proof, things would get better.

Bypassing the Constitution in "dependency courts"
is way beyond wrong. Possibly treason against the Constitution.

On the Foster side, if they could just weed out the PEDERASTS
they would look less like gay pimps feeding the pederasts
large numbers of boys for "indoctrination".

The Federal bears responsibility for continuing the
flow of funding even though the state agencies have
failed to fulfill their CONTRACT which demands respect
for Constitutional Rights of families under threat that
the funds should be REMOVED.

Clearly they have been unwilling to choke off the MONEY
for agencies that have FAILED this basic part of
their contract for the money.

In essence, US DHHS has become PART OF the
out of control and disgraced Child Protection INDUSTRY.

(Failing in their responsibility as watchdog.)

On Aug 7, 12:15 am, fx wrote:
Facts on Foster Care in America
A Grim Picture for Many Kids, but There Are Reasons for Hope

May 30, 2006 -

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991

Each week, nearly 60,000 children in the United States are reported as
abused or neglected, with nearly 900,000 confirmed abuse victims in
2004. About 520,000 of those children end up in foster care each year --
double the number 25 years ago. Approximately 800,000 children every
year come in contact with the foster care system.

Watch ABC News' and "Primetime's" special series on foster care, "A Call
to Action: Saving Our Children," beginning Thursday, June 1.

Despite more than a decade of intended reform, the nation's foster care
system is still overcrowded and rife with problems. But taxpayers are
spending $22 billion a year -- or $40,000 a child -- on foster care
programs.

The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up. He's most critical of the way foster care gets funded
by the federal government -- $5 billion that goes mostly, he says, to
keeping kids in foster care.

There are no provisions for treatment, prevention, family support, or
aging out -- just for supporting things as they are. He wants to rethink
foster care on a national level.

Foster Care Statistics:

On September 30, 2004, 518,000 children were in the U.S. foster care
system. Most children are placed in foster care temporarily due to
parental abuse or neglect.

A record 304,000 children entered the system in 2004, according to one
study. Much of the rise was due to methamphetamine use. Experts estimate
that 80 to 90 percent of foster care placements can be traced to
substance abuse.

About 40,000 infants are placed in foster care every year.

126,000 children are currently available for adoption.

On average, children stay in the system for almost three years (31
months) before either being reunited with their families or adopted.
Almost 20 percent wait five years or more. Children have on average
three different foster care placements. Frequent moves in and out of the
homes of strangers can be profoundly unsettling for children, and it is
not uncommon to hear of children who have been in 20 or 30 different
homes. Many have been separated not only from their parents, but from
their siblings.

More than 20,000 children each year never leave the system -- they
remain in foster care until they "age out."

Thirty percent of the homeless in America and some 25 percent of those
in prison were once in foster care.

44 percent (or about 241,000 children) have reunification with their
birth families as their case goal.

48 percent were in foster family homes (non-relative), 24 percent were
in relative foster homes, 18 percent were in group homes or
institutions, 4 percent were in pre-adoptive homes, and 6 percent were
in other placement types.

The average age of a foster child is 10. Half are 10 or under.

40 percent of foster children are white; 34 are black; 18 percent are
Hispanic.

Case workers burn out and leave the profession in very high numbers. The
annual turnover rate in the child welfare workforce is more than 20 percent.

 




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