Children need safe and permanent families for healthy development. Therefore, states are tasked with moving children in foster care to permanency through reunification with the family of origin, ...

This article discusses the evolution and ongoing challenges in New York’s child protective system, especially regarding permanency hearings and case delays. Recent reforms emphasize timely hearings to ...

Foster care is meant to be “a temporary service for short-term care and supportive services to children who are unable to live at home because of child abuse or neglect.” The longer a child remains in ...

When a child is in the care and custody of the state of Maryland in a Child in Need of Assistance case, that child must have a permanency plan, which is determined by the juvenile court. “The ...

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