Debbie Cook’s Post

🚨📞 Let your legislator know you oppose eliminating the Family Urgent Response System! Contact your CA representative & urge them to restore FURS in the #CABudget TODAY! Learn how to take action here: https://bit.ly/3v00vmt FURS’ 24/7 helpline with in-person response was created BY and FOR foster youth and caregivers. Let your legislator know that California’s budget deficit shouldn’t be fixed at young people’s expense. #ProtectFURS

Did you know? 💡The UIFSA makes it easier for parents to establish, enforce, and collect child support across state lines. 👍 If you need help with a child support matter, Johnson O'Keefe is here for you! #childsupport #familylaw #johnsonokeefe   Visit our website to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gz9F_KfE

Child support is a court-ordered financial responsibility designed to cover a child's essential needs such as housing, sustenance, and health care. While typically provided until the child turns 18, certain conditions can extend this obligation. Understanding these legal requirements is crucial for both custodial and non-custodial parents. Read More: https://lnkd.in/eJgDPwRq #FamilyLaw #ChildSupport #LegalAdvice

Pillar 2 Reform: Safe and Sustainable Reintegration of Children.This entails facilitating the transition of institutionalized and separated children back to family and community-based care by tracing their families and providing necessary support. #carereform #childrebelonginfamilies

Thank you Victorian Council of Social Services for addressing the pain points for care this #worldcareday. For carer households where day to day financial pressures are impacting lives and placements of children and young people, an increase to the Victorian care allowance rate and other financial supports to reach parity with other states in Australia, is urgent and critical. The state by state comparisons show Victoria is out of touch and leaving carers with unsustainable levels of financial responsibility to provide secure and quality care to the children and young people of Victoria. https://lnkd.in/gCkw-A26

Victoria’s child and family services system continues to come under significant and sustained pressure. Service providers – committed to supporting Victoria’s most at-risk children, young people, families and carers, and their workers – are working in an increasingly challenging environment. To ensure that Victoria’s children and their families are kept safe and well, Victoria must continue to implement policies and take steps to reduce the demands on the child and family services system, address the overrepresentation of First Nations families in the child protection system, and ease the financial burden on foster and kinship carers. Read more in VCOSS' 2024 Budget Submission: https://lnkd.in/gk4hvuKX

📢 Let your legislator know you oppose eliminating the Family Urgent Response System! 📢 On March 20, contact your CA representative & urge them to restore FURS in the #CABudget – learn how to take action here: https://bit.ly/3v00vmt FURS’ 24/7 helpline with in-person response was created by and for foster youth and caregivers. ⭐ Let your legislator know that California’s budget deficit shouldn’t be fixed at young people’s expense. #ProtectFURS

Child support in Maryland is typically calculated using a set formula, but what happens when these guidelines don't fit your situation? #MarylandChildSupport #FamilyLaw #ChildSupportCalculation #MarylandFamilyLaw #ChildCareCosts #SupportGuidelines

Supporting families to prevent separation, moving children from institutions into family and community based care, and closing institutions so that vulnerable children are not placed in an environment that exposes them to further harm. This document draws on 30 years of expertise in de-institutionalization. Hope and Homes for Children. #familycare #carereform #familiesnotorphanages #changingthewaywecare

At Directorate Alternative Care, I often meet parents who were once children in the care system, some of whom I encountered during my time working in child protection. It raises a critical question: does the fact that they grew up in our care system and now have children in care themselves suggest that the system failed them? Nowadays we moved more towards community home settings, where minors in care are given the opportunity to live in a family like environment. At present DAC hosts 62 minors and young people in our ten homes and two after care settings. We remain committed to de-institutionalisation, focusing on individual care plans tailored to each child’s needs. But beyond that, we must work harder to strengthen their skills, foster empathy, build self-awareness, and uphold their dignity. It's not just about care—it's about equipping them for life. #ChildProtection #DeInstitutionalisation #Empathy #Dignity #SocialWork #CareTransformation