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5/1/2019

Child Deaths and Faulty Facts: A Surefire Recipe for Misguided Child Welfare Proclamations

Opinion

Daniel Heimpel

Last week, City Journal, a magazine and website published by the Manhattan Institute, published a fear-mongering column entitled “Parents Rights,’ at the Expense of Kids’ Safety.” In that piece, a writer named Naomi Schaefer Riley, a fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, made two points.

1/16/2019

Will Shutdown-Ending Legislation Include Rubio, Feinstein Bill to Extend Foster Care Waivers?

Daniel Heimpel

Last week, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced legislation that would allow scores of state and county child welfare agencies to delay implementing a new federal law that promises to reshape foster care.

12/22/2018

Ohio Child Welfare Leaders Support Federal Legislation to Extend the Title IV-E Waiver

Angela Sausser and Mark Mecum

Imagine being a child protection agency director 20 years ago and making a bold decision to use the flexibility that comes with capped federal dollars to keep kids from entering foster care – instead of using the funding only as intended, to remove children from struggling families and place them into the system.

Former Children's Bureau head Jerry Milner.

2/14/2018

Trump’s Top Child Welfare Official: Family First a Good First Step, but True Prevention is Key

Jerry Milner

Last week, Congress passed and the President signed into law the Family First Prevention Services Act. It is an encompassing and complex piece of legislation that will take some time for states to figure out in terms of the opportunities, as well as the data collection, reporting, accountability and state plan requirements that accompany those opportunities.

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