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4/28/2020

Parents’ Foster Care Placement Challenges Need Quick Resolutions, New York Appeals Court Rules

Michael Fitzgerald

The New York City family court isn’t moving fast enough to hear some parents’ challenges of children’s foster care placements, a state appeals court ruled late last week.  And, within days of the ruling, advocates say they’ve begun citing the precedent-setting decision in new filings for such hearings.

With Influx of Federal Funding, New York Aims to Expand Foster Care Prevention

6/24/2019

Child Welfare Reform Advocates Achieve Historic Policy Victories in New York

Michael Fitzgerald

Amid tired lawmakers reportedly flinging rubber bands back and forth, New York’s Senate and Assembly passed a major two-pronged reform to the child welfare system before the end of a frenzied 2019 legislative session last week.

4/11/2019

Movement to Stem Family Separation in Child Welfare Gains Momentum

Guest Writer

On Thursday, scores of attorneys, judges and other child protection professionals descended on Washington, D.C., for the American Bar Association’s National Conference on Parent Representation. The conference’s name is suggestive of the family justice revolution brewing within child welfare law.

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