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4/6/2022
The Imprint staff reports
In Georgia, child advocates are suing the state’s child welfare agency in federal court because it refuses to pay for the specialized legal services that some undocumented youth and young adults would need to fully protect their foster care benefits.
1/24/2022
Michael Fulcher
Trauma and mental illness seem to go hand in hand with foster care, writes Michael Fulcher.
9/23/2021
A Georgia circuit judge ruled that federal law entitles students with disabilities to education services when in adult jails.
8/4/2021
The director of Georgia’s family and children’s services resigned after he demeaned a Black sheriff’s deputy on state property.
6/22/2021
Georgia has a new leader to advocate for the rights of children and youth in the child welfare system and the services they are entitled to.
5/6/2021
Six new bills signed into law in Georgia this week are intended to accelerate the state’s ongoing efforts to make adoption easier.
11/17/2020
For more than a decade, hundreds of disabled students locked up in a large Georgia jail have not been getting the special education services they’re entitled to under federal law, but that may soon start to change.
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9/8/2020
John Kelly
The vast majority of reports of child abuse and neglect emanate from adults outside a child’s family or neighborhood. Most calls come from so-called “mandated reporters,” who are required to disclose any concerns about child safety with protection officials.
9/4/2020
Georgia will no longer maintain its child abuse registry, which launched four years ago to help investigators quickly identify and locate substantiated cases and keep tabs on the scale of the problem.
11/22/2019
Jeremy Loudenback
Virginia Pryor, the chief of staff to Bobby Cagle when he served as Georgia’s child welfare director has been hired in the same capacity for his team at the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).