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Why a drug treatment tool to protect Missouri kids is underutilized in the St. Louis area

Jason Rosenbaum

June 10, 2024 |

St. Louis Public Radio |

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Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

Temporary Alternative Placement Agreements (TAPA) allow parents struggling with addiction to enter a drug-treatment program and connect them with parenting resources and support to help them maintain custody of their children. Under a TAPA parents have a say in who their children stay with while they're seeking treatment, rather than losing custody altogether. Participants say TAPAs are far less traumatic and help hold them accountable as they’re required to sign an agreement to uphold at the start of the program.

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A Network Of Traditional Leaders Is Helping Kaduna Communities Find Missing Children

Aisha Gambo

May 06, 2024 |

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Rigasa, Kaduna

A rural village has instituted several WhatsApp groups to communicate and help find children when they go missing. Each ward has a WhatsApp group and a system in place to care for children until they are reunited with their families, all for free. From January 2024 to May, over 20 missing children have been found and reunited with their families.

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As more youth struggle with behavior and traditional supports fall short, clinicians are partnering with lawyers to help

Julia Hotz

April 30, 2024 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

A medical-legal partnership at the Yale Child Study Center allows health and law professionals to team up to address patients’ health and legal needs. The teams help children with anything from housing to academic environments by addressing the root of the problem and connecting it to their legal rights.

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Children in the courtroom: How Virginia judges are giving kids a voice

Jenna Zibton

March 05, 2024 |

Solutionaries |

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Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

Judges in Roanoke, Virginia, are ensuring children have a voice in the courtroom to improve the way cases are handled and the outcomes for children in foster care. They encourage children to speak up, ask them what they want, prepare them in advance with worksheets and letters, and even offer them gifts like a book or stuffed animal.

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Safe Spaces for Traumatized Children

Oana Sandu

June 09, 2023 |

Transitions Online |

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Response Location: Romania

The Association for Victims of Sexual Crimes is creating child-friendly interview spaces at legal institutions in Romania so that young survivors of sexual assault can be interviewed in a more comfortable setting and avoid further trauma.

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Feeling sick? The lawyer will see you now.

Julia Hotz

May 25, 2023 |

The Boston Globe |

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Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

The Child Health-Law Partnership (Child HeLP) is a collaboration between health and legal professionals to treat a patient’s “health-harming legal needs” together. The original medical-legal partnership began 30 years ago in Boston, but has since expanded to other cities to look at all aspects of a patient's health. To administer the best care, patients are asked questions about housing quality and stability, delays or denials of public benefits, unmet educational needs and mental health.

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Protecting children and healing families, one Native auntie at a time

Nancy Marie Spears

May 24, 2023 |

The Imprint |

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Response Location: Luiseño, United States, San Diego, California

My Two Aunties assists Indigenous families to help keep children out of foster care. The group provides parenting support and education, seeks to build relationships between families and their culture and also works to repair intergenerational trauma that can lead to creating an unsafe environment for children. In 2022, the program served 97 families and held 411 parenting classes and interest in the program is continuously growing.

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Court program seeks volunteers to help children through legal process

Caitlin Schmidt

November 22, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: United States, Pima County, Arizona

Court-appointed special advocates (CASAs) are trained volunteers appointed by a judge to represent a child’s best interests throughout the foster care system and adoption court processes. CASAs spend time with the children to get to know them and their situations, including their medical, psychological and social needs, to advocate on their behalf. The CASA program began in the 1970s; today, there are about 1,000 CASA programs nationwide.

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Tribal, Arizona and Pima County officials work to reunify families

Caitlin Schmidt

September 05, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: United States, Arizona

Lawyers, tribes, state agencies, judges, social workers, and a law professor in Arizona worked together to create the Pima County Superior Court's Indian Child Welfare Act Court. Since the court is specialized, cases are processed faster, outcomes have improved, and it protects the best interests of Native American children throughout the process.

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The struggle to help LGBTQ foster youth aging-out of the system with housing continues in Sacramento

Ken Magri

May 25, 2022 |

Sacramento News & Review |

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Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

The Fostering Connections to Success Act was designed to help aged-out foster children in need of housing for up to three years. Foster children can choose whether they want to continue living with their foster parents, another guardian or transition into an apartment or college dorm. There’s a group of twelve specialized social workers who work closely with foster care youth to create Transitional Independent Living Plans, which help these aged-out youths transition into housing.

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