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You can bring a child in from the cold - consider foster care
Thursday May 16th, 2024
By: Darcy Olsen and Ann Tredway
If a little kid showed up at your door looking hungry and cold, would you let them in? Absolutely! You'd give them warm blankets, make them lots of hot chocolate, and do everything you could to make sure they're safe and comfortable.
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The Permanency Project Helps More Children Find a Safe and Loving Home
Friday May 3rd, 2024
Nationally, over 90% of children in foster care leave the child welfare system via reunification with biological parents, guardianship, kinship placements, or adoption. The remaining children – approximately 9% of teens and young adults – “age out” of the child welfare system without a permanent family.
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Model Executive Order Protecting Benefits for Children in Foster Care
Tuesday Apr 9th, 2024
Phoenix, Ariz - Center for the Rights of Abused Children Releases a Model Executive Order Protecting Social Security, Disability, and Survivor Benefits for Children in Foster Care.
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Sample executive order to stop states from taking youth benefits
Monday Apr 8th, 2024
An order prohibiting the state department of child safety (department) from taking rightful federal benefits away from a child in foster care and requiring the department to preserve the child’s benefits in the best interests of the child.
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Colorado Improves Legal Protections for Children in the State Foster Care System
Saturday Apr 6th, 2024
Denver, Colo. – The Colorado legislature has passed a landmark reform strengthening core legal protections for children in the foster care system.
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Arizona Joins 22 States with New Law Allowing for the Restoration of the Parent-Child Relationship
Friday Apr 5th, 2024
Phoenix, Ariz. – Today, the Arizona legislature unanimously passed House Bill 2486, allowing courts to consider the restoration of the parent-children relationship.
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Groundbreaking Reform Brings Transparency and Oversight to the Department of Child Safety
Thursday Apr 4th, 2024
Phoenix, Ariz. – Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed a groundbreaking reform
created by the Center for the Rights of Abused Children to improve transparency and oversight of the Department of Child Safety (DCS).
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Arizona Unanimously Passes Critical Reform to Improve Graduation Rates of Children in Foster Care.
Thursday Apr 4th, 2024
Phoenix, Ariz. – House Bill 2645, adopted unanimously on April 2, 2024, will improve educational outcomes for children in foster care.
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Statement Urging Social Security Commissioner to Stop Taking Foster Youth Benefits.
Wednesday Apr 3rd, 2024
Washington, DC – A bipartisan coalition of federal lawmakers on both the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee.
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Enforcement of Foster Youth Bill of Rights
Thursday Feb 29th, 2024
February 29, 2024 - The Center for the Rights of Abused Children releases a toolkit aimed at enforcing the rights of youth in foster care.
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Webinar: Client-Directed Counsel for Children in Foster Care.
Tuesday Feb 27th, 2024
March 8, 2024 - Join VP of Policy, Kendall Seal for a discussion on the ten states that have passed client-directed counsel for all children.
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Preservation of Youth Benefits Toolkit
Wednesday Feb 7th, 2024
The Center for the Rights of Abused Children publishes toolkit to help pass legislation in states nationwide.
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