Better Reform of Child Protective Services
We Need Better Solutions for Child Protective Services To Protect Our Children
Child Protective Services are here to protect and save children from abusive homes. Yet, too many children are suffering or have died with their voices unheard. Children who do survive abuse within the home, from biological, foster, or adoptive parents, live life with the haunted scars of torture. Though time heals all wounds, the memories remain forever. Those who still carry anger and hurt in their heart, pass it down to their children or to those around them, creating a cycle that is hard to break. Something needs to be done to protect the future generation of America. This petition is for all 50 states of America. Let's give our future generation a better tomorrow.
Our policy solutions are as follows:
1. Child Protective Services needs oversight and accountability. If there is a question of one or more social workers on the case, then the case should be transferred to another social worker until further investigation is completed.
2. Reports and information should be accessible on the state, county and federal levels so there can be someone or a designated place to file complaints, pursue investigations and deliver proof of evidence of criminal or unethical cases.
3. Dependency courtrooms need to be open, so that corrupt judges cannot have as much privacy as they would like.
4. There needs to be the standards as to what constitutes abuse and neglect, instead of only what seems like a problem to each individual social worker. There needs to be a written agreement on the definition of abuse, and all social workers need to be trained in the details therein.
5. Interviews need to be recorded. These interviews are presented in CPS? court reports as evidence, and they need to be accurate. Every social worker should wear body cameras so that the situation, body language, tone of voice, reactions, and circumstances of the house can be seen and handled better if one person misinterprets.
6. CPS workers should take refresher courses to maintain an up to date knowledge of psychology, studies, and body language. They should be mandatory every 2-4 years.
7. Absolutely no courtesy calls. No family pending investigation should be given warning of a social worker?s arrival.
8. There should be random monthly visits to foster children, to make sure the children are safe.
9. If a child says they are being abused, social workers need to take heed and immediately take proper action for what is safest for the child.
Our policy solutions are as follows:
1. Child Protective Services needs oversight and accountability. If there is a question of one or more social workers on the case, then the case should be transferred to another social worker until further investigation is completed.
2. Reports and information should be accessible on the state, county and federal levels so there can be someone or a designated place to file complaints, pursue investigations and deliver proof of evidence of criminal or unethical cases.
3. Dependency courtrooms need to be open, so that corrupt judges cannot have as much privacy as they would like.
4. There needs to be the standards as to what constitutes abuse and neglect, instead of only what seems like a problem to each individual social worker. There needs to be a written agreement on the definition of abuse, and all social workers need to be trained in the details therein.
5. Interviews need to be recorded. These interviews are presented in CPS? court reports as evidence, and they need to be accurate. Every social worker should wear body cameras so that the situation, body language, tone of voice, reactions, and circumstances of the house can be seen and handled better if one person misinterprets.
6. CPS workers should take refresher courses to maintain an up to date knowledge of psychology, studies, and body language. They should be mandatory every 2-4 years.
7. Absolutely no courtesy calls. No family pending investigation should be given warning of a social worker?s arrival.
8. There should be random monthly visits to foster children, to make sure the children are safe.
9. If a child says they are being abused, social workers need to take heed and immediately take proper action for what is safest for the child.
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