There's a great new series by Rise Magazine about how reporting to child protective services, by schools, impact children, parents, families, and relationships between families, schools, and communities. You can link to individual articles below or to this series link, here.
How Over-Reporting and CPS Monitoring Stress Families and Weaken Communities
Series edited by Rachel Blustain, Rise Contributing EditorWhen Schools Over-Report
Series edited by Rachel Blustain, Rise Contributing EditorPersonal Essays
No Escape: The system failed me as a child but now it won’t leave me alone.
by Sarah HarrisThe System Allowed My Ex to Use Investigations as a Weapon Against Me
by Lou HA Punishment Worse than the Crime: I was charged with abuse but my kids were harmed in foster care.
by Shakira PaigeMy Broken Life: My kids were never taken but child protective services hurt my son and me so much.
by AnonymousWe Just Needed Support: Instead, ACS tore us apart.
by Careena FarmerInterviews and Opinion
New Research: How Fear of CPS Harms Families
by Keyna Franklin and Careena Farmer
When Schools Use Child Welfare as a Weapon: What a reporter learned investigating malicious reports.
by Keyna Franklin
What Parents Need to Know: School Reports to CPS, Communicating with the School, and Advocating for Your Child
by Ray Watson, Shakira Paige, Sarah Harris and Keyna Franklin
How to Get School-Based Supports for Your Child
by Cynthia Zizola, Shakira Paige, Ray Watson, Keyna Franklin and Melissa Landrau
For those who don't know about Rise Magazine, here's some information:
Every year almost 300,000 children enter foster care nationwide. Media coverage of foster care focuses on tragic child deaths, the need for foster and adoptive parents, and the experiences of young people who “age out” of foster care at 18 or 21. Less understood is that more than half of children in foster care return home to their parents–and that nearly every child who enters foster care wants to go home.
Accessing family support services and navigating the family court system with little support requires extraordinary determination. Rise’s mission is to train parents to write and speak about their experiences in order to support parents and parent advocates and and to guide child welfare professionals in becoming more responsive to the families and communities they serve. Our goal is to reduce unnecessary family separations and increase the likelihood that children who are placed in foster care quickly and safely return home.
Through therapeutic writing workshops for parents, a publication reaching 20,000 readers nationwide, public speaking and staff training reaching thousands of child welfare professionals in New York City, and partnerships with foster care agencies to strengthen their supports for parents, Rise changes the story of who these parents are–and who they can become.
Here's the link to Rise Magazine.
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