Category: Child Protection and Advocacy

Layla Jackson never returned to her mother. The cheerful, observant 17-month-old was murdered by her foster father in 2018. Latasha Bacon said child protection workers should not have removed her daughter from her care after the girl returned from a babysitter’s with a broken leg. Bacon, who is Black and Native American, is part of a movement demanding Minnesota rethink its child protection system that has disproportionately penalized families of color. “Nobody wants to say, ‘Racism is very much still alive.’ Nobody wants to say that our system is broken,”…

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ABUJA, NIGERIA, April 19, 2024 — In a significant move to advance the rights and welfare of children in Nigeria, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Nigerian Guild of Editors, and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This partnership aims to leverage media’s influential power to promote and protect children’s rights across the nation. The collaboration will focus on advocacy and awareness campaigns, capacity building for journalists, shared research, recognition of impactful media contributions, and influencing policy to support children’s rights.…

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A new report contends that two-thirds of kids in California foster care’s system have never met with their legal counsel outside of court, but critics call the data and conclusions flawed. By Jeremy Loudenback Attorneys represent tens of thousands of California foster children, but the results of a new survey reveal many still feel left without enough assistance in dependency court hearings that determine their fate. Art by Adobe Stock. Court-appointed attorneys for foster children represent the voice of abused and neglected children in dependency court. They inform judges about…

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TOPEKA — Following a years-long clash over who should oversee the state’s child welfare system — a battle that took on new urgency with the death of a Topeka 5-year-old in October — lawmakers sent a bill creating an independent office to the governor.  Senate Bill 115 would establish the Office of the Child Advocate as a independent state agency. Gov. Laura Kelly first created the Division of the Child Advocate under executive order as a stopgap measure for the overburdened foster care system in October 2021, after the House…

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Thursday, April 18, 2024TOPICS: Politics and Law Share This Post SAN DIEGO (April 18, 2024) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law Children’s Advocacy Institute (CAI) released a report, entitled “Foster Care or Foster Con? Preserving the Federal Benefits of America’s Most Vulnerable Children.”  The report evaluates all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia with respect to their laws and policies relating to the preservation and management of foster youths’ federal benefits. Every day, tens of thousands of fostercare children are being robbed of millions in…

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News By Alli Stephens | April 18, 2024 Child Advocates of Montgomery County is pleased to announce the selection of its President and CEO, Ann Marie Ronsman, as a regional representative to the Texas CASA Board of Directors. The Texas CASA Board of Directors plays an important role in governance, financial stewardship and ensuring that Texas CASA has the resources to fulfill its work and mission of supporting local CASA volunteer advocacy programs and advocating for effective public policy for children and families in the child protection system.  Ann Marie Ronsman, President and…

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