Remaking Foster Care: Learning How To Survive Outside The System
On Thursday, we heard from a single mom about her transition out of the foster care system. In the final part of KERA’s Remaking Foster Care, we’ll hear from another person who aged out of the system: a 24-year-old from East Dallas.
Remaking Foster Care: Navigating The System As A Parent
At a Fort Worth church, Greg Bunch addresses a group of mothers and fathers.
Remaking Foster Care: After A Number Of Crises, Redesign Takes Root In Fort Worth
Forty-five thousand young Texans can’t safely live with their parents. A third of them are in state custody. They’re trying to navigate a foster care
Lundy: Texas’ foster care system is hurting
Many foster children need highly specialized and individualized care. A study by the Children’s Trust Fund and Michigan State University found that 30 percent of abused children have some type of language or cognitive impairment, and 14 percent exhibit self-harm.
Video: Seeing An Unintended Consequence In CPS Law
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would prohibit the Department of Family and Protective Services from making a finding of “abuse” or “neglect” against a parent who surrenders parental rights to get a child mental health care.
6-month-old baby dies while in CPS custody
“Today is the last day I will ever see my daughter again,” said Anastasia Hernandez through tears.
Raising Awareness to Find More Foster Parents
AMARILLO– 31,000 children are currently in foster care in Texas and with the growing need in Amarillo groups are trying to raise awareness to find more foster parents.
Carson: Consider early success of Foster Care Redesign
It was early July 2001, and Trish Virgil was going to make a lemon meringue pie. “In our family, 12 years old meant that you get to finally learn how to make homemade pies,” she says now, smiling.
US feds are paying for psychiaric fraud to drug foster care kids – National health
The state of affairs of psychiatry in the United States with all of it’s deceitful fraud and other abuses is shocking.
Feds Pay for Drug Fraud: 92 Percent of Foster Care, Poor Kids Prescribed Antipsychotics Get Them for Unaccepted Uses
The release in late March of an alarming new report by federal investigators has confirmed in shocking new detail what has been known for years: Poor and foster care kids covered by Medicaid are being prescribed too many dangerous antipsychotic drugs at young ages for far too long — mostly without any medical justification at all.