Foster Care reform (parents behind the pinwheels)

  • Multi-witness testimony to remove children from home.
  • Harsh penalties for dfacs workers who fabricate evidence, ignore abuse, do not follow up on cases, work against the best interest of the child first then the biological family.
  • Remove monetary benefits that encourage removing as many children as possible - fund reunification.
  • Checks and balances - a lot of these kids are not getting checked on. There needs to be a cap on how many children one case worker has.
  • Thorough background checks.
  • Requirement to interview children apart from foster families.
  • Requirement to allow children to go to immediate family members (that they already see with any regularity) without approval. Children shouldn’t have to sleep with strangers over paperwork.
  • Secondary temporary shelters for kids who have to be removed but no foster home open. They shouldn’t be sleeping by the case workers deak.
  • Increase of foster parent monetary allotment with a requirement to provide proof that 75% goes directly to the child.
  • Requirement for foster parents to send children away with all belongings they came into care with (at a minimum) with harsh fines if anything is not returned with the child.
  • Prison for any foster parents found to be abusing foster children or their own children while a foster child is in their care.
  • Quick due process - first hearing should be within a month and if evidence cannot be provided by the accuser, the case needs to be dropped.
  • Prison for doctors with a history of falsely accusing parents.
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