
Steve Volk
investigative Solutions reporter at Resolve Philly. Narrative journalist. Author of Fringe-ology and Breathless. https://t.co/RtwjgFO3LX
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3 weeks ago |
asianamericans.einnews.com | Violet Comber-Wilen |Julia Binswanger |Steve Volk |Meir Rinde
#BILLYPENNGRAM OF THE DAYGuarding the castle in Powelton Village(Photo by @karenbenson.eyeful)City Council will hold hearings looking into the troubled history of the Department of Human Services’ approach to child welfare. Advocates and others have hopes for solutions — and concerns based on a history of inaction — about what will come from it.
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3 weeks ago |
inquirer.com | Steve Volk
The Philadelphia police special victims unit is investigating the death of a child who apparently drowned in a bathtub when his foster mother left him unattended to go to the microwave. Records obtained by The Inquirer and Resolve Philly show that a Harrowgate foster parent left 19-month-old Sy’vir Hill and a second child unsupervised and returned to find Sy’vir submerged in the water.
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3 weeks ago |
billypenn.com | Steve Volk
For years, people with intimate knowledge of foster care practices at the Department of Human Services cited similar problems: random and subjective decision-making, the confusion of poverty and neglect, an unstable workforce riven by turnover - and more.
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2 months ago |
inquirer.com | Steve Volk |Resolve Philly
Philadelphia City Council has unanimously passed a resolution to hold hearings about the Department of Human Services in the wake of The Inquirer’s series on failings of the foster care system. Those articles, reported in collaboration with Resolve Philly, traced a wave of lawsuits against the city’s network of privately contracted foster agencies back to DHS itself.
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2 months ago |
inquirer.com | Steve Volk |Julie Christie |Resolve Philly
The problems bedeviling Philadelphia’s child welfare system — too many kids in foster care, worker vacancies, and lawsuits stemming from child injuries and deaths — have all steadily waned in New Jersey in the last two decades. So what can Philly learn from the Garden State? In the 1990s, New Jersey’s child welfare system was among the worst in the nation, with too few caseworkers for the number of kids in need.
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