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Agencies are stepping up efforts to recruit foster parents for highly traumatized kids
Mental health professionals especially being sought
By: Bo Evans
and last updated 2021-04-19 14:24:52-04
DENVER â There are nearly half a million children in foster care across the United States, many of whom have experienced some level of trauma. Social workers are focused on recruiting families to take on the highest-level cases to give those children some stability.
Ronny DeCarlo always knew she wanted to be a foster parent.
âLike really, always. I knew that, that really called to me, she said. I really believe that it takes a village to raise children.â
10 Appalling Crimes That Exposed Major Flaws In Child Protection
In a world rife with human horrors, child abuse is among the most abominable. Almost equally horrifying is when individuals and institutions enable child abuse through neglect, willful ignorance, or woefully inadequate safeguards. Such failings shake the conscience to its core and sometimes even catalyze change.
10 Mary Ellen’s Ordeal
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Before 1875, legal remedies for the grotesque mistreatment of children were imposed inconsistently throughout the United States, and agencies devoted to child protection didn’t exist. That all started to change with the 1874 case of nine-year-old Mary Ellen Wilson.
Born in 1864, Mary Ellen became a ward of New York City’s Department of Charities after her father, Thomas Wilson, died, and her mother could no longer care for her. She ended up living with Thomas and Mary McCormack, whom the department illegally assigned as her caretakers. In a stroke of awful luck, W
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This is the third in a series produced under a USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on the stories of vulnerable communities. The first two parts of the series explored how COVID-19 has affected young adults aging out of the foster care system and grandparents raising kin.
Michael Mickey Hogan, 42, and his then wife were living in a camper beside a back road in Denver, preparing to take their newborn son to a doctor s appointment in August 2017, when a child protective services agent from the county showed up at their door.
He told the caseworker that they needed to leave for his son s appointment, and she told him it could wait.
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