Steve Volk
investigative Solutions reporter at Resolve Philly. Narrative journalist. Author of Fringe-ology and Breathless. https://t.co/RtwjgFO3LX
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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Steve Volk
In fall 2021, Tytianna Hawthorne received a phone message from an investigator with the Philadelphia Department of Human Services: Someone may have abused her 1-year-old daughter. The investigator was acting on a confidential tip to ChildLine from a caller who said a photo of Su’Layah on a social media account showed “hookah charcoal burn marks” on Su’Layah’s inner thighs. Hawthorne, a first-time mother at 20, had spent time in foster care herself and had no love for the system.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Steve Volk |Julie Christie
A story like this could begin in dozens of places. It could begin with Elliot, an infant shaken so badly that he suffered a traumatic brain injury; or Adeen, another boy, submerged in scalding water; or Samaya, held down and burned with an iron. A story like this could also begin with a mom, like Tytianna Hawthorne, whose daughter Su’Layah Williams was removed from her care by the Philadelphia Department of Human Services and placed in a private home where the girl was allegedly murdered.
Foster care agencies in Pa. took millions owed to kids in their care, often keeping them in the dark
2 weeks ago |
wesa.fm | Julie Christie |Steve Volk |Resolve Philly
Counties across Pennsylvania are taking millions of dollars in Social Security benefits owed to kids in foster care, a practice some child advocates equate to stealing. These local agencies contend the practice is allowed under law and needed to offset the cost of care. But it’s often done without a child’s knowledge and how some counties use the money is unclear. “This money belongs to these kids,” said state Rep.
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