By Legal Intern Kelly Monahan Benefits of Kinship Care Kinship care – placing children with relatives rather than non-relative foster parents – is associated with significant benefits for children and youth, including improved mental and behavioral health. Specifically, kinship care may help mitigate the trauma of removal when children are placed with relative caregivers who […]
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Solution Based Casework Model to be Implemented for DCP&P-Involved Families
By Legal Intern Kelly Monahan The NJ Division of Child Protection & Permanency (CP&P) is rolling out training for its staff on Solution Based Casework (SBC)™ to help improve the quality of case plans, one of the four remaining benchmarks that New Jersey has to meet pursuant to a federal court settlement agreement. Solution based […]
BLOG: Special Education Students Turning 21 in 2021 Entitled to Another School Year
Nina Peckman, Staff Attorney According to New Jersey regulations, students with disabilities have the right to be in school until they turn 21 years old. Parents always had the right to advocate for their child to remain in school beyond 18 years old or a proposed graduation date in order to request additional or compensatory […]
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Watch the recordings of our webinar series where we discuss how the child care sector was uniquely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we can work together to #ReimagineChildCare and help build back better.
Register – Newark KIDS COUNT 2021 Data Snapshot: College Students and COVID-19
Join us as we discuss the data surrounding Newark’s children and families. This snapshot takes a look at how COVID-19 has affected the classes of 2019 and 2020, and their future college plans.
