
Michael FitzGerald
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1 day ago |
imprintnews.org | Jeremy Loudenback |Michael FitzGerald |Michael Fitzgerald
The Los Angeles court-appointed special advocates organization parted ways with its leader last week, a prominent voice for racial justice in the child welfare system who grew up in foster care and has decried her dismissal. Charity Chandler-Cole has led the local CASA program for the past four years. But in a message sent to its mailing list on June 18, CASA of Los Angeles stated that Cole, 39, was no longer working with the organization, and thanked her for her service.
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1 month ago |
imprintnews.org | Michael FitzGerald |Michael Fitzgerald
The Imprint’s recent five-part series, Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out? revealed that states across the country have failed to properly monitor and curtail the heavy, haphazard reliance on psychiatric medication prescribed to foster youth. Dozens of young people with histories of trauma described “pain and anguish muffled, not healed,” by these quick-fix drugs.
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1 month ago |
imprintnews.org | Sara Tiano |Michael FitzGerald |Michael Fitzgerald
On a Thursday in late March, department leaders in the U.S. Administration for Children and Families gathered at a meeting. The warning they received from higher-ups was blunt: On Monday, ACF will look nothing like it does today. With White House officials and business tycoon Elon Musk on camera calling to “delete” federal agencies and leave bureaucrats “traumatically affected,” cuts to social services appeared imminent.
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1 month ago |
imprintnews.org | Michael FitzGerald |Michael Fitzgerald
Hannah Van Dinter lived in a homeless shelter with two young kids beneath Washington’s snow-capped Olympic Mountains when she learned about Head Start. The landmark early childhood education program has served millions of working poor families with young children since it was established 60 years ago. They were a good fit. The family of four lacked steady household income, and they kept running into “bad situations,” including a visit from CPS, she said.
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2 months ago |
imprintnews.org | Michael FitzGerald |Michael Fitzgerald
The Trump Administration’s latest cost-cutting blitz has eliminated millions of dollars in funding for the nonprofit overseeing popular volunteer programs that match Court-Appointed Special Advocates and guardians ad litem with abused and neglected kids. In a statement posted on its website Wednesday, the Seattle-based National CASA/GAL Association for Children announced it was among hundreds of U.S. Department of Justice grantees that had received funding termination notices this week.
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