In 1998, DES officials asked lawmakers to pass the Child Placement Protection Act after the death of 16-year-old Nicholaus Contreraz at the Arizona Boys Ranch in Oracle.
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State Rep . Geanie Morrison, R-Victoria, has introduced a bill that would allow mothers to leave newborns at child placement facilities with a licensed nurse on staff or at any hospital.
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It is just one measure of growth within this fragmented industry that the number of licensed child placement agencies has increased by several hundred in just three years, to 1, 764, according to the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse.
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In a recent home study done of the Kavanaughs, child placement specialist Joseph F . Bielski said they could care for a child who might have such conditions as attention deficit disorder, eating disorders, attachment disorders and learning disabilities.
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"' J . ( Julia ) Jessie Taft "'( June 24, 1882 in Dubuque, Iowa June 7, 1960 in Flourtown, Pennsylvania ) was an early American authority on child placement and therapeutic adoption.
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Wool said a contract proposed with a newly forming agency, Lifeline Children and Family Services in Corsicana, shows Legacy's role as day-to-day manager of the child placement agency, hiring and firing and establishing policies and child care plans.
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At issue is the Christian faith-based management services firm, Legacy Inc . of Austin, run by the founder and other executives of a large child placement agency, For Children's Sake, which lost its license in August after a yearlong investigation.
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In 1941 the Society lost its endorsement from the Child Welfare League of America when it was discovered that Tann's organization routinely destroyed most of the paperwork associated with its child placements Tann argued that since Tennessee adoptions were shielded by privacy laws, the Society was not in violation of any practice.
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"' Children, young people and families "' this includes preventative family support and child protection services, child placement, fostering, adoption, working with young offenders, children and young people who have learning or physical disabilities, or homeless, as well as support for families and carers.
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In the last four years, as the number of children placed in foster homes by New York City has dropped by 40 percent, the city has had a rare chance to do what it has been promising to do since the late 1990s : cut its ties to the private foster care agencies with the worst scores on its annual evaluations of child safety and child placement.
