June 2014

Family

Foster Kids in Limbo: The Effects of the Interstate Compact on Children in Foster Care

Vivek S. Sankaran

When children in the child welfare system are placed across state lines, the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children can create delays to timely permanency. Learn the challenges and how to overcome them.

Family

ICPC Stories

Stories of Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children [ICPC] delayed studies

Family

Strength-Based Child Interviewing Tips: Preschoolers

Question preschool-age children with these tried and true tips from the Handbook on Questioning Children.

Family

Status Offender Did Not Resist ‘Arrest’ When Refusing to Leave With Probation Officer

Scott Trowbridge

Youth, who had previously been adjudicated a Person in Need of Supervision (PINS) and struggled with probation officers who were trying to remove her from her home, could not be adjudicated as a delinquent for resisting arrest or obstructing government administration.

Family

Mother Did Not Neglect Children Because She Was Homeless

Where mother attempted but failed to find employment, or secure housing through friends, family, or public assistance programs, her children could not be adjudicated neglected because neglect findings cannot be based solely on poverty.