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Project Visitation–How to Recommend a Child

Project Visitation began as a joint collaboration between the Family Court of the First Circuit, the Department of Human Services (“DHS”), and Volunteer Legal Services Hawai`i in an effort to continue the relationship of brothers and sisters separated in Hawaii’s...

A Commencement Address at Harvard: Insights from J.K. Rowling

This inspiring article comes to us from Dr. Robert Brooks who is one of today’s leading speakers on the themes of resilience, self-esteem, motivation, and family relationships. Download: J.K. Rowling Speech To read more of Dr. Brook’s articles, visit his...

Attachment 101 for Attorneys

According to this article, “when we deliberately remove a very young child from the only home he or she has ever known, we move that child into the group of children who mentally represent close relationships as untrustworthy.  In other words, when the state...

Federal Budget Bill Cuts Services to Abused and Neglected Children

Final 2006 Budget Bill Cuts Services to Abused and Neglected Children by Casey Trupin, Vicki Turetsky, Rutledge Hutson. On February 8, 2006, President Bush signed into law the 2006 federal budget bill, which includes provisions to decrease federal funding for a range...

Forced Separations and Forced Reunions in the Foster Care System

From page 38: “The longer a child has been cared for in a safe, nurturing relationship, the more compelling the reasons would have to be to remove him or her from a postive environment (whoever is the caregiver) to return to another caregiver; to do so would...

Kinship Care Report to Congress, June 2000

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 directed the Secretary of HHS to develop this report to Congress. This report was prepared with the input of the Advisory Panel on Kinship Care which met in October 1998 and January 1999. The report has two parts. Part I...