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By JoANNE YOUNG / Lincoln Journal Star
The testifiers seemed oceans apart at times.
The progress Nebraska has made in getting help for kids with mental and behavioral health problems bogged down in opposing viewpoints.
A committee of senators addressed the problems head-on Monday with pointed questions to state Medicaid director Vivianne Chaumont and Deborah Happ, a vice [...]
By Martha Stoddard
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
The Nebraska Court of Appeals today lifted a gag order on a Lincoln mother and stepfather who dropped off their then-17-year-old son under the state’s former safe haven law.
The court ruled that the order imposed by Lancaster County Juvenile Court Judge Toni Thorson violated Sue and Avery Quakenbush’s rights to [...]
By Liz Kellar
Staff Writer
It’s called emancipation, but for many foster children who age out of the system at 18 or 19, that “freedom from slavery” is more like being thrown into the deep end.
Each year in California, approximately 4,200 young adults exit foster care when they turn 18. Deemed to be adults by the state, [...]
By Paul Hammel
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
A split Foster Care Review Board opted against suspending its longtime director, Carol Stitt, after confusion erupted Tuesday over how many votes were needed to take that step.
The board voted 5-4, with one abstention, to suspend Stitt with pay until a federal investigation concluded whether she should be removed from her [...]
Spending time with family during Thanksgiving and Christmas can be stressful, but what if you didn’t have anywhere to go?
Zachary Reid of the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch recently did a story about kids who are “aging out” of the foster care system.
When these young people turn 18 — 19 in Nebraska — they might find themselves [...]
By Martha Stoddard
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
Two familiar Nebraska agencies have won state contracts to create new services for families of troubled children.
Nebraska lawmakers approved and funded the new services in response to the problems highlighted by the state’s former safe haven law.
Boys Town will operate a statewide help line and set up a peer support and [...]
MATT MILLER/THE WORLD-HERALD
LINCOLN — With five adult boys, their 16 kids, one great-grandchild and the seven great-nieces and great-nephews who are starting to call her “Mom,” there’s no telling how many will gather around Aunt Tiny’s table today.
Phyllis “Tiny” McCaul, so named because of her size at birth and still-diminuitive 4-foot-11-inch height, will cook for [...]
Filed on November 24, 2009
18 Neb. App. 153, 775 N.W.2d 470
SUMMARY: A denial to allow in-chambers testimony from the child is not a final, appealable order.
Marcella B. and Juan S. were removed from the mother on January 26, 2009, on allegations of inappropriate physical contact and failure to provide appropriate care, support and/or supervision. [...]
Children’s advocates say more needs to be done
Reporter: Jodi Baker
Just shy of three months old, Jayden Roland is set to undergo brain surgery Thursday.
Police say his father, 17 year-old Marcus Bass admitted to shaking Jayden, then throwing him down a flight of stairs. It allegedly happened during an overnight visit.
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Lexie Van Fleet said she’s always had a part-time job and worked hard in school, but she said there’s a stigma that often follows her and other former foster children.
“Foster children aren’t evil. I had no other choice but to enter foster care because my parents couldn’t take care of me,” Van Fleet said.
The college [...]
