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Advocating For Children With Disabilities In Child Protection Cases, Joshua B. Kay
Advocating For Children With Disabilities In Child Protection Cases, Joshua B. Kay
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Children with disabilities are maltreated at a higher rate than other children and overrepresented in child protection matters, yet most social service caseworkers, judges, child advocates, and other professionals involved in these cases receive little to no training about evaluating and addressing their needs. Child protection case outcomes for children with disabilities tend to differ from those of nondisabled children, with more disabled children experiencing a termination of their parents' rights and fewer being reunified with their parents or placed with kin. They also tend to experience longer waits for adoption. Furthermore, the poor outcomes that plague youth who age …
The Americans With Disabilities Act: Legal And Practical Applications In Child Protection Proceedings, Joshua B. Kay
The Americans With Disabilities Act: Legal And Practical Applications In Child Protection Proceedings, Joshua B. Kay
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Parents with disabilities, particularly those with intellectual disability and/or mental illness, are disproportionately represented in the child protection system.1 Once involved in the system, they are far more likely than parents without disabilities to have their children removed and their parental rights terminated. The reasons for this are many. Parents with disabilities are relatively likely to experience other challenges that are themselves risk factors for child protection involvement. In addition, child protection agencies, attorneys, courts, and related professionals often lack knowledge and harbor biases about parents with disabilities, increasing the likelihood of more intrusive involvement in the family. Yet research …
Fundamentally Fair? A Critical Look At The Due Process Afforded Parents In Child Protection Proceedings Under Minnesota Law, Brooke Beskau Warg
Fundamentally Fair? A Critical Look At The Due Process Afforded Parents In Child Protection Proceedings Under Minnesota Law, Brooke Beskau Warg
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
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Wounded Souls: The Need For Child Protection Professionals And Faith Leaders To Recognize And Respond To The Spiritual Impact Of Child Abuse, Victor I. Vieth, Pete Singer
Wounded Souls: The Need For Child Protection Professionals And Faith Leaders To Recognize And Respond To The Spiritual Impact Of Child Abuse, Victor I. Vieth, Pete Singer
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
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Child Advocacy Studies (Cast): A National Movement To Improve The Undergraduate And Graduate Training Of Child Protection Professionals, Victor I. Vieth, Betsy Goulet, Michele Knox, Jennifer Parker, Lisa B. Johnson, Karla Steckler Tye, Theodore P. Cross
Child Advocacy Studies (Cast): A National Movement To Improve The Undergraduate And Graduate Training Of Child Protection Professionals, Victor I. Vieth, Betsy Goulet, Michele Knox, Jennifer Parker, Lisa B. Johnson, Karla Steckler Tye, Theodore P. Cross
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
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Keeping It In The Family: Minor Guardianship As Private Child Protection, Deirdre Smith
Keeping It In The Family: Minor Guardianship As Private Child Protection, Deirdre Smith
Faculty Publications
Due to the opioid use epidemic and an overwhelmed public child protection system, minor guardianship is an increasingly important tool for relative caregivers seeking to obtain legal authority regarding the children who come into their care because of a parent’s crisis. Yet minor guardianship originated in colonial law for an entirely different purpose: to protect legal orphans who had inherited property. Today’s guardianship laws are still based on this “orphan model” which does not fit today’s reality. This Article is the first to analyze how these outdated guardianship laws are being used as a form of “private child protection” and …