On May 13, 2024, Crain’s Chicago Business published an article entitled, “The child welfare system is hurting the kids it was designed to protect. Why?” The answer to the question is a complicated one, but the issues facing Illinois’ foster care system are stubborn and longstanding. My grandmother was placed in foster care in Illinois […]
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In the White House’s 2024 proclamation on National Child Abuse Prevention Month, it wrote, “[t]here is no greater sin than the abuse of power, especially when that abuse is directed at a child.” When state and county child welfare agencies remove children from their homes, we expect that they are placed in safer environments. But
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Problems With Today’s Foster Care Residential Facilities & Group Homes Over 40,000, or 10 percent of the children in foster care in the U.S., are placed in congregate care facilities, including group homes, residential facilities, and psychiatric residential treatment facilities. In some states, the percentage of children in congregate care facilities exceeds 30 percent. Most
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There are nearly 400,000 children in foster care in the United States. These children enter care for a variety of reasons, including due to physical abuse, sexual abuse and exploitation, neglect, parental substance abuse, abandonment, etc. In other words, some sort of trauma brought them to the attention of state or county child welfare officials.
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