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Missouri child welfare agency pitches plan to rebuild overburdened foster care system

Missouri child welfare agency pitches plan to rebuild overburdened foster care system
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Missouri child welfare agency pitches plan to rebuild overburdened foster care system • Missouri Independent

Missouri social services leadership pitched lawmakers on a new philosophy to “rebuild and reform” Children’s Division.

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Arizona s new child welfare director has a lot of work to do

A mistake 20 years ago still reverberates today at Arizona s Departmetn of Child Services. Gov. Katie Hobbs seems eager not to repeat it.

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Katie Hobbs Picks Matthew Stewart to Lead Arizona s CPS Agency — ProPublica

Stewart will become Arizona’s first Black director of the Department of Child Safety. A recent ProPublica-NBC News investigation found the agency had investigated the families of 1 in 3 Black children in metro Phoenix during a recent five-year period.

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Hawaii Judges Were Trained To Run Better Child Welfare Hearings Their Performance Plummeted

The hearings can determine whether parents lose their children, but topics that could help avoid that are rarely or never discussed.

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