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My, my our networking has worked.
ASFA provided that relatives receive consideration. But since CPS thrives on power and control and ENDLESSLY DRAGGING OUT TO keep the drones employed---and all those associated with this wrongly structured industry, this small concession to reality (and fiscal realities, too) makes sense. Even foster parents find out about CPS' absolute secrecy, control and abuse of well-meaning foster parents. They can't even recruit anyone to foster. Now who do we lay that debacle at? Natch.....CPS....Catching parents spanking. Wex sent in: Subject: Waiver will help relatives who adopt foster kids From: wexwimpy Date: 9/11/2004 5:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id: Waiver will help relatives who adopt foster kids Thompson will discuss effects Friday By JESSE GARZA Posted: Sept. 9, 2004 Relatives caring for foster children in Wisconsin will be able to retain federal subsidies if theybecome legal guardians of the children under a waiver granted Thursday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 43813Quotable This action helps remove a significant barrier in developing healthy family environments. - Scott Walker, Milwaukee County executive From a policy standpoint, it makes sense to open the guardianship option to more families. From the standpoint of kids who need safe, loving homes, it makes even more sense. Wisconsin and Minnesota were granted the waivers to create five-year demonstration projects that will also allow foster youth, after age 15, to remain eligible for supportive services if they leave the foster care system, a statement from the department's Administration for Children and Families said. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson, who approved the waivers, is expected to discuss what they will mean to foster care and adoption programs at a press conference Friday morning at the Milwaukee County Children's Court Center. The waivers will allow foster children to "move from the uncertainty of foster care to the permanent loving protection of the guardians they know and trust," Thompson said in a statement issued Thursday. Under current law, relatives, other than parents, with custody of children under foster care arrangements receive federal funding through state programs. However, if they make the relationship permanent by obtaining legal guardianship, those fundscould be cut off, according to the Administration for Children and Families. Under the waivers, those funds will continue when guardianships established by court order transfer custody of those children from the state to the respective relatives. "This action helps remove a significant barrier in developing healthy family environments," Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker said in a statement Thursday. Walker will join Thompson at this morning's press conference. To be eligible for the program, children must be in a licensed relative foster placement program for at least one year and with the relative seeking guardianship for "several months", according to the Administration for Children and Families. Wisconsin's demonstration project will initially operate in Milwaukee County, allowing about 775 children in foster care to participate in subsidized guardianship, the agency said. The Wisconsin program will be run by the state Department of Health and Family Services, which applied for the waiver in 2002 and resubmitted the application this year. "From a policy standpoint, it makes sense to open the guardianship option to more families," Gov. Jim Doyle said in a statement Thursday. "From the standpoint of kids who need safe, loving homes, it makes even more sense." The federal waiver will be cost neutral, both to the federal government and the state, Doyle said. Since the children affected by the waiver would otherwise remain in foster care, the guardianship payments will be cost neutral, and no additional state funding is needed to implement the program, he said. According to the Department of Health and Family Services, in Wisconsin more than 5,100 families are licensed foster care providers and, on a typical day, about 8,000 children are living with foster families. Implementation of the waiver program will begin once the state Legislature passes enabling legislation, with a target starting date of July 1, 2005, Doyle's office said. http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/sep04/257763.asp Defend your civil liberties! Get information at http://www.aclu.org, become a member at http://www.aclu.org/join and get active at http://www.aclu.org/action. |
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Thanks, I passed this on to interested kinship care, support and children's
rights groups. This is very good. I appreciate you posting it. Sherman. "wexwimpy" wrote in message ... Waiver will help relatives who adopt foster kids Thompson will discuss effects Friday By JESSE GARZA Posted: Sept. 9, 2004 Relatives caring for foster children in Wisconsin will be able to retain federal subsidies if theybecome legal guardians of the children under a waiver granted Thursday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 43813Quotable This action helps remove a significant barrier in developing healthy family environments. - Scott Walker, Milwaukee County executive From a policy standpoint, it makes sense to open the guardianship option to more families. From the standpoint of kids who need safe, loving homes, it makes even more sense. Wisconsin and Minnesota were granted the waivers to create five-year demonstration projects that will also allow foster youth, after age 15, to remain eligible for supportive services if they leave the foster care system, a statement from the department's Administration for Children and Families said. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson, who approved the waivers, is expected to discuss what they will mean to foster care and adoption programs at a press conference Friday morning at the Milwaukee County Children's Court Center. The waivers will allow foster children to "move from the uncertainty of foster care to the permanent loving protection of the guardians they know and trust," Thompson said in a statement issued Thursday. Under current law, relatives, other than parents, with custody of children under foster care arrangements receive federal funding through state programs. However, if they make the relationship permanent by obtaining legal guardianship, those fundscould be cut off, according to the Administration for Children and Families. Under the waivers, those funds will continue when guardianships established by court order transfer custody of those children from the state to the respective relatives. "This action helps remove a significant barrier in developing healthy family environments," Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker said in a statement Thursday. Walker will join Thompson at this morning's press conference. To be eligible for the program, children must be in a licensed relative foster placement program for at least one year and with the relative seeking guardianship for "several months", according to the Administration for Children and Families. Wisconsin's demonstration project will initially operate in Milwaukee County, allowing about 775 children in foster care to participate in subsidized guardianship, the agency said. The Wisconsin program will be run by the state Department of Health and Family Services, which applied for the waiver in 2002 and resubmitted the application this year. "From a policy standpoint, it makes sense to open the guardianship option to more families," Gov. Jim Doyle said in a statement Thursday. "From the standpoint of kids who need safe, loving homes, it makes even more sense." The federal waiver will be cost neutral, both to the federal government and the state, Doyle said. Since the children affected by the waiver would otherwise remain in foster care, the guardianship payments will be cost neutral, and no additional state funding is needed to implement the program, he said. According to the Department of Health and Family Services, in Wisconsin more than 5,100 families are licensed foster care providers and, on a typical day, about 8,000 children are living with foster families. Implementation of the waiver program will begin once the state Legislature passes enabling legislation, with a target starting date of July 1, 2005, Doyle's office said. http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/sep04/257763.asp Defend your civil liberties! Get information at http://www.aclu.org, become a member at http://www.aclu.org/join and get active at http://www.aclu.org/action. |
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