23 Mar, 2024 More Evidence that States Need a Massive Change in Services for Foster Children By Debbie Ausburn A story from Oklahoma analyzes the problems that the foster care system in that state is facing. The root problem is that the state...
03 Feb, 2024 Arizona Foster System Under Fire By Debbie Ausburn More and more states are examining their foster care system, and the latest agency under the microscope is the Arizona Department of...
04 Nov, 2023 Did Georgia DFCS Really "Lose" 1800 Children? By Debbie Ausburn News media and politicians are hyping a new report that Georgia DFCS lost track of 1790 children between 2018 and 2022. The implication...
28 Oct, 2023 One Simple Way The Community Can Help Foster Parents By Debbie Ausburn Earlier this month, my TED colleague, Tom Rawlings, and I spoke at the Christian Legal Society national conference about ways that local...
02 Oct, 2023 A Good Trend Toward Allowing Foster Children Access to Their Social Security Payments By Debbie Ausburn Until recently, it was a common practice for states to claim the Social Security funds assigned to youth in foster care. However, a 2021...
25 Sep, 2023 Challenges in Maine’s Foster Care System By Debbie Ausburn Maine recently joined a long list of states struggling with challenges in providing consistent and quality foster care to vulnerable...
13 Sep, 2023 Foster Care Stresses are Universal By Debbie Ausburn Ireland is facing the same problems as the United States in keeping foster parents. A recent survey of Irish foster parents found that...
23 Aug, 2023 Incompetent Investigations Create Yet More Barriers to Recruiting Good Foster Parents By Debbie Ausburn A recent story from Washington state outlines another barrier to recruiting good foster parents, specifically jumping to conclusions...
18 Aug, 2023 Caseworkers Charged With Felonies After Child's Death By Debbie Ausburn Prosecutors have charged child welfare caseworkers with felony child endangerment, alleging that the caseworkers negligently recommended...
31 Jul, 2023 Red Tape Discourages Foster Families By Debbie Ausburn One well-known barrier to recruiting foster families is the red tape that agencies impose. The District of Columbia demands a notarized...
12 Jul, 2023 Foster Parents Quit Because of Treatment by Government Agencies By Debbie Ausburn Kansas commissioned a survey to determine why it lost 500 parents between July 2019 and June 2022. What it found should have come as no...
21 Jun, 2023 Minimum Standards Are Not Enough in Child Protection By Debbie Ausburn It's Hawaii's turn in the spotlight as various attorneys, politicians, and journalists investigate the problems with the state's child...