domestic violence

This column relates accounts of family engagement by a nonprofit working to keep families together while avoiding child welfare involvement. The names of the family members have been changed to provide anonymity.

Parents who have survived domestic violence as adults or as children have a lot to add to child welfare discourse. We should invite them into co-design with open hearts and minds.

Mi Escuelita in San DIego offers students on-site mental health services and a safe space where children can learn and heal.

In Washington state, a ‘model code’ would have only licensed mental health professionals making parenting plan recommendations to the court.

A Washington mother filed a lawsuit alleging that a guardian ad litem and her abuser’s attorney colluded to flip the narrative against her.

Courts can no longer order CPS supervision of a parent just because they have an abusive partner, an appellate court in Brooklyn has ruled.

Being in a domestic violence relationship after foster care is like a continuation of trauma with a different title, writes Jessica Castillo.

In a New York appeals court, a Brooklyn mother and her lawyers are challenging CPS supervision of her home after she was physically abused.