● If you think Darth Vader was bad, wait ‘till you see how the family police operated a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. For The Imprint, Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan writes about it, and what we can learn from it in our galaxy right now.
● Prof. Gupta Kagan, a lawyer, joins with a social worker,
Andrea Asnes, and a doctor who authored the definitive history of the modern
child welfare surveillance state, Dr. Mical Raz, to offer guidelines for
clinicians to answer this question “Should I Call Child Protection.” The
brief guide, in JAMA Pediatrics includes “Five Things Every
Clinician Should Know About CPS and Equity Before Making a Report”
● In Minnesota, which takes away all children at a rate far above the national average and has, by far, the worst record of racial disparity when it comes to tearing apart Native American families, children of color don’t just lose family and friends. As The Imprint reports:
Data compiled by the state’s Department of Human Services for this outlet show that in 2022, more than 40% of the 4,051 Minnesota foster children placed with strangers were Native American, African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander or Latino. Of the licensed, non-relative foster parents who received them, twice that percentage were white. In some counties where foster youth are mostly children of color, 100% of foster parents are white, state statistics show.
In this week’s edition of The Horror Stories go in All Directions:
From VT Digger:
A former state Department for Children and Families employee has been charged with sexually assaulting a youth she was working with when she was employed by the department several years ago.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has arrested a youth counselor at A Kid's Place of Tampa Bay for allegedly engaging in sexual acts with a minor resident. |
