D.C.’s hidden foster care practice is harming families, advocates warn
The 5-year-old showed up in the same way that many children who have been suddenly taken from their homes do: carrying barely anything.
At 12, she started running away. At 17, she started standing up for some of D.C.’s most vulnerable kids. “Rather than follow both federal and D.C. law requiring removal of the child to foster care — preferably with a relative who has received an expedited temporary kinship foster care license — CFSA diverts the child to live with the relative, without providing the legally required due process, services or supports, including foster care maintenance payments,” she said.Unlike foster care, she said, the hidden practice allows the agency to remove and place children without going through the courts.
Making up for birthday parties that were never had, group gives older foster kids a chance to celebrate “Basically, they set these families up to fail,” Spindel said. “They’re dropping these kids who already have trauma into the laps of these family members or godparents and waving goodbye.”As K.H. tells it, she let caseworkers know at the beginning that she needed support and wanted them to stay involved. She said she told them that she wanted her sister, who is her niece’s mother and has a long history of mental health struggles, to get the help she needed.
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