Category: News & Notes
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Orlando Sentinel: With LGBT groups in Capitol, House briefly debates ’sexual oreintation’ foster care bill
A beautiful moment: It was a rare first-person discussion for the Florida House: two openly gay lawmakers discussing the problems they experienced as teens. The Florida House briefly showed its new, more diverse membership Tuesday when two freshmen openly gay House members supported an amendment to an otherwise non-controversial foster-care bill to prohibit foster parents from…
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DCF to CLS: Seek Attorneys ad Litem for Medicaid Denial Cases
DCF, understandably, sees the futility and waste of paying for medical services that Medicaid should be covering. Medical support is an important component of permanency for families. I wouldn’t limit this advocacy to just out-of-home kids: we should extend this service to parents (as part of case plans and reasonable efforts) and to kids still…
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Who is challenging APD’s iBudget?
I saw this notice today. Someone is challenging the validity of APD’s iBudget rules. I have my guesses on who.
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And They’re Off: The Independent Living Debates Begin
The Florida Senate’s Children, Families, and Elder Affairs committee has filed its Independent Living Bill (SPB 7012). It is on the committee agenda for February 19.
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ILSAC Conference Call Presenting IL Recommendations
What’s the new ILSAC been working on? Find out on January 15th at 11:00am.
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Miami Herald: How Florida limits care for disabled kids
In a drab, cramped conference room in Doral, a 45-year-old single mother is fighting with the state to secure in-home nursing care for her severely disabled daughter — while the 10-year-old fights for her life. The mother sits across a wooden table from a state hearing officer who will decide whether health regulators were right…
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DCF Rewriting Foster Care Regulations
The focus appears to be normalcy. I haven’t had a chance to go through them in detail yet. https://www.flrules.org/gateway/View_Notice.asp?id=12390991
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childlaw.net: Be Careful When “Making Healthy Choices”
I will repost this in its short entirety. Attorneys who represent youths, parents, and foster parents have reason to be concerned about a pamphlet recently published by the federal government’s Children’s Bureau. The pamphlet, “Making Healthy Choices,” is intended to advise youth in foster care about psychotropic medications and is being distributed nationwide in English and…
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Happy National Adoption Day!
A heartfelt congratulations to everyone adopting or being adopted today.