Late last month, another young child involved with Los Angeles County’s child welfare system died in the Antelope Valley under unknown circumstances. Unlike the headline-grabbing cases of other children dying at the hands of a parent, 19-month-old Joseph Chacon was found unresponsive in a car seat inside his foster mother’s vehicle. The lack of information about…
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Effects of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Parental Representation in Child Welfare, a new report from Casey Family Programs and undertaken with New York University and Action Research is now available. This was a multi-year study of child welfare cases brought in the New York City courts to determine whether the kind of legal representation provided…
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