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Week In Review – June 5th, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – June 5, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Foster care in West Texas prepares for community-based care transition The foster care...
Week In Review – May 29th, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – May 29, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: 1. Texas tries to rein in false accusations of child abuse In an effort to address...
Week In Review – May 22nd, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – May 22, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Texas DPS recovers 30 children in joint human trafficking operations Last week, a...
Week In Review – May 15th, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – May 15, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: First Lady Abbott hosts Heart Gallery event At Governor’s Mansion First Lady Cecilia...
Week In Review – May 8th, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – May 8, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Judge defends keeping eye on Texas’ overuse of mental health drugs on foster children...
Week In Review – May 1st, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – May 1, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Texas is facing a child care crisis. More than 30 groups are asking lawmakers to do more...
Week In Review – April 24th, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: DeSoto newborn returned to parents after 3 weeks in foster system Newborn Mila Jackson, removed by...
What We Are Reading – Upstream by Dan Heath
Welcome back to our series “What We Are Reading”! This month we are taking a deep dive into Dan Heath’s book Upstream and today we are taking a glimpse at part one. To introduce the topic, Heath uses a parable that is ubiquitous in child welfare where friends...
Week in Review – April 17th, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – April 17, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Meet the Houston lawyer whose charity work sparked the epic battle over Texas foster...
What We Are Reading – Upstream by Dan Heath
Every now and then you run across a book that you just have to share with your friends. We ran across one that we feel speaks perfectly to the hardships and frustrations of child welfare. Upstream by Dan Heath is just that. Initially drawn in by the title as...
Week In Review – April 10, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – April 10, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Legal document used to take Dallas newborn had the wrong family’s name Dallas couple...
Week In Review – April 3, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – April 3, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Asking the right questions about adoption On March 26, 2018, white adoptive parents...
Week In Review – March 27th, 2023
Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Caseworkers hampered by ’90s-era foster care software that the state hasn’t replaced Texas has poured more than $100 million into the state’s aging...
Week In Review March 20th, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – March 20, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Texas removed six Black children from their homes. Their adoptive parents drove them...
Week In Review March 13th, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – March 13, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Former Texas CPS employees say nearly 70 'children without placement' are being housed...
Week In Review March 6th, 2023
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – March 6, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Nonprofit network to take over foster care in Dallas, Collin, 7 other counties On...
Week in Review February 27th
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – February 27, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: Hurdles keep Texas youth out of extended foster care designed to help them In Texas...
Week in Review February 20th
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – February 20, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: 1a. Lawyers for foster children using money awarded in Texas lawsuit to lobby...
Week in Review – February 13th
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review – February 13, 2023 Here are some news items from last week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye: How a 12-year-old federal lawsuit turned a judge into Texas’ foster care czar When...
We Need More Foster Home
We Need More Foster Homes In recent news our attention has been turned to the question: What happens to children and youth that are in care of the State of Texas? This is most commonly known to us as the foster system. Parents, most often, come into hard times...