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Neglect and Abuse

Few systems are as critical to a community as child welfare. To an outsider, the child welfare system is also a complex labyrinth of programs that cover children’s safety, abuse and neglect, foster care and adoption as well as supporting and strengthening families. How children fare in that system will have lifelong repercussions across all parts of society.

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Neglect and Abuse, Families and Communities

Family Implores Mentally Ill Mother to Tell Them Where She Left Her Missing Children

The Washington Post
Dan Morse

“Tell us where the children are.” “I promise you they’re alive.” A Maryland woman is being held at a maximum-security psychiatric hospital after being charged with abduction and neglect of her two toddlers.

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The Outcast

The New Yorker
Rachel Aviv

After a Hasidic man exposed child abuse in his tight-knight Brooklyn community, he found himself the target of a criminal investigation. 

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The Standing Rock Sioux Fight to Get Their Children Back

Al Jazeera America
Laura Rena Murray

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota fight to gain custody of their children and grandchlldren after they are taken by state social workers and placed in foster care. 

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Investigating Abuse and a "Broken Shield"

Mina Dixon
In mid-2011, Ryan Gabrielson, public safety reporter at California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting, received a tip about a police force he’d never heard of: The Office of Protective Services.The tipster indicated that some members of this state-run police force were... Read more
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Runaway Girl: Review and Reporting Resources

Amanda Perez
Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets, One Helping Hand at a Time by Carissa Phelps and Larkin Warren tells the story of a girl who was kidnapped at age 12 and forced into prostitution. The memoir details Carissa Phelps' journey from runaway to success story and illuminates the... Read more
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Digging Deeper and Finding “Kids in Peril”

Michael LaForgia, Reporter, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post
In 2010, Palm Beach Post Reporter Michael LaForgia discovered that Florida’s lax laws allowed anyone—even a convicted sex offender—to run a summer camp. The resulting article “Sex Offender, Other Felons Ran Camps for Homeless Kids,” earned LaForgia a 2011 Casey Medal and prompted state... Read more
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Unreported Victims Of An Economic Downturn

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
While child maltreatment incidents rose from 10 percent to 24 percent, reported child maltreatment incidents sunk by 12.7 percent, according to a report by Harvard University.
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Psychotropic Medication Use Among Children in the Child Welfare System

Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire
Children in the child welfare system are given psychotropic medication, drugs prescribed to affect the mind, emotions and behavior, at rates approximately three times higher than children and adolescents in the general population.
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"Jeremiah Williams’ Story"

The Indianapolis Star Tim Evans, Alvie Lindsay and Jenny Green
A heartbreaking tale of repeated failures, poverty and an untimely death, told with sensitivity and suspense. Evans sorts through the bureaucratic...
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As of 2011, nearly 60,000 children in foster care in the U.S. are placed in institutions or group homes, not in traditional foster homes.
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Child Welfare League of America
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Smith College
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Santa Clara Univeristy
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Michigan State University
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