Irving Mother Whose 3 Children Drowned Sues CPS
Attorneys for an Irving mother whose three children drowned in a swimming pool have filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against the Dallas County Child Protective Services Unit of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Service.
Is Texas denying health coverage to foster youth?
The final weeks of 2014 were a stressful time for Jasmine Johnson, then a 20-year-old expectant mother who was moving to Conroe after attending business management school in Brenham. Unbeknownst to Johnson, they were also the final weeks of her Medicaid health coverage.
Baby girl’s death in foster care leaves family with unanswered questions
Norman Nickelberry doesn’t know how his baby granddaughter died.
California Approves Laws To Cut Use Of Antipsychotics In Foster Care
Efforts to protect children in foster care from being inappropriately medicated with powerful antipsychotic drugs got a big boost forward on Tuesday, when California Gov. Jerry Brown signed three bills into law designed to reform prescribing.
Texas CPS Worker Found Guilty of Official Oppression
A Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) worker has been found guilty of official oppression. The CPS worker is one of three individuals who were charged in connection with a CPS investigation.
California Moves To Stop Misuse Of Psychiatric Meds In Foster Care
By the time DeAngelo Cortijo was 14, he had been in more than a dozen foster homes. He had run away and lived on the streets for months, and he had been diagnosed with bipolar and anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, intermittent explosive disorder or posttraumatic stress disorder. He had been in and out of mental hospitals and heavily medicated.
Texas Parents May Lose Children for No Good Reason
A Texas Christian family is facing the nightmare that all 11 of their homeschooled children (16, 14, 12, 9, 8 [twins], 7, 6, 3, 2, and 12 weeks) will be forcibly removed from them at the end of the month.
State Appoints Ombudsman For Foster Youth And Children
McLennan County (August 27, 2015) The Texas Legislator last session passed Senate Bill 30 which created the position of ombudsman for children and youth in state care.
Judge Ordered Children Out of Foster Care in 2013
Nearly two years before the murder of six Houston siblings, a state district judge denied a request by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to keep them in foster care, according to a memo sent to members of the Legislature on Tuesday.
Murdered Houston Family had Extensive CPS History
The six children found murdered along with two adults in Houston over the weekend were no strangers to Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, which investigated at least four complaints about their care dating back 2011, and temporarily took the children into foster care two years later.