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Studies: Money better spent helping family than on foster care
By DEBORAH CIRCELLI
Staff Writer

http://www.news-journalonline.com/Ne...AD05013008.htm

DAYTONA BEACH -- Shifting more money to help families -- whose children
otherwise would be taken away by social agencies -- would help save on
the billions of dollars child abuse costs the country each year, a study
released Tuesday shows.

Local experts agree it's less costly to provide services to families in
their homes instead of the long-term impacts of separating children from
their families and placing them in foster care.

New national studies show child abuse and neglect cost an estimated
$103.8 billion in 2007 because of long-range implications to children
and families, including hospitalizations, mental health counseling and
costs to law enforcement, jails and court systems.

Advocates are calling for Congress to give states more say in how about
$7 billion in federal funding is spent instead of the majority being
restricted to paying for foster care services. The studies were
conducted by Prevent Child Abuse America and Kids Are Waiting, a project
of The Pew Charitable Trusts, two nonprofit child-advocacy groups.

Jim Hmurovich, president and CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America, said
there are too many adverse effects of abuse on children being in foster
care, "not to mention the human suffering that the child goes through."
He said it's better to spend the money to prevent the abuse from
occurring in the first place.

Local officials hope state funding isn't cut this legislative session
for child welfare services and a prevention program that works with
at-risk families.

Healthy Families Florida, a home visiting program that contracts
locally, received $30.5 million last year to operate its program
statewide. The program helps parents with everything from discipline
techniques to getting children immunized and attending doctors
appointments. More than 13,000 families were helped last fiscal year,
including 476 locally.

"We've seen families grow and flourish," said Dixie L. Morgese,
executive director of the local contractor, Healthy Start Coalition of
Flagler and Volusia Counties.

Local child welfare officials are also starting a new program in July
intended to reduce the number of abused or neglected children being
removed from their homes. On average, 40 local children a month are
removed; the goal is to reduce that to 25.

Here's how the program will work: If the abuse is not egregious, state
investigators will connect families with social workers who visit homes
several times a week for parenting training and counseling. A crisis
response team does that now, but the new program will be more intense
and will cover more families, officials said.

Too many studies, officials say, show children placed in foster care
have higher risks for everything from pregnancy to committing crimes.

Those statistics "show us if we can keep the family together and solve
the problem, we can do better for kids," said Ron Zychowski, president
and CEO of Community Partnership for Children, which provides local
foster care and other services.

In one of the studies released Tuesday, it shows that the main reason
children entered foster care in Florida based on 2005 statistics was
because the parent had a substance abuse problem.

Florida currently has more flexibility than other states when it comes
to spending federal dollars on prevention after receiving a special
waiver in October 2006. State officials couldn't say how much of that
federal money is now being spent on prevention, but said child welfare
agencies spent 5.7 percent of their total budget on prevention in fiscal
year 2006-2007, compared to 3.2 percent the year earlier.

"We want to provide appropriate services so if a child can safely remain
at home, that can be done," said Don Winstead, deputy secretary for the
state Department of Children & Families.



At a Glance

A national study released Tuesday shows the annual estimated cost of
child abuse and neglect in 2007 was $103.8 billion. The cost includes
foster care, hospitalization for abuse injuries, mental health
counseling, special education for abused children, law enforcement,
legal and jail services for adults and juveniles and long-term loss of
income for a child later on in life for having been abused.

· Average yearly cost per victim of abuse: $66,775

· Average yearly cost per tax-paying family: $1,340

· Average cost per day nationally: $284.2 million

SOURCE: Prevent Child Abuse America


"SAVE THE FAMILY AND YOU SAVE THE CHILD"


CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL
SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....

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

Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.


CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS 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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