Paul Borik, who lost more than $340,000 over the course of a decade, is among those whom the state is failing to protect, an Injustice Watch investigation found.
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Content warning: Graphic descriptions of physical and sexual abuse When James McIntyre advocates for queer kids facing abuse and neglect in the state s foster care system, he draws on painful personal experience of his own time in the system and the abuse he endured. McIntyre was only three years old when his parents drug use and neglect forced Illinois child protection authorities to place him and his four siblings in foster care. A couple eventually adopted him and two siblings years later, but that home wasn t the solace he was promised. He tells the
Reader that after he turned seven years old, his adoptive mother would beat and starve him. And her biological son raped him for years. After escaping that home by feigning mental illness, McIntrye says he was shuffled between foster homes until he turned 21 and aged out of the system.
From Cook County Public Guardian Charles P. Golbert…
The Child Welfare Advisory Council (CWAC) is an important council that advises DCFS on all aspects of child welfare policy and practice. To the best of our institutional memory, for the entire history of the council, our office, which represents nearly half of the children and youth in DCFS’s care, has always had a representative. Until now.
Last month, Marc Smith, the Acting Director of DCFS, advised us that we would no longer have a seat at the table. In fact, there is no one on the current roster who is appointed to represent children in their Juvenile Court cases. Most of the appointees work for organizations under contract with DCFS.