Safe Delivery in Michigan: What You Need to Know About Surrendering a Newborn in 2025 It has now been over 20 years since Michigan enacted its Safe Delivery of Newborns Law—commonly known as the Safe Haven law. This law allows a parent to legally and safely surrender an infant, no more than 72 hours old,…
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Aging Out of Foster Care in Michigan: No Support and No Safety Net (Part 2) Welcome back, and thanks for joining us again as we continue our discussion on the challenges faced by kids who age out of Michigan’s foster care system. As we explained in the first part of this series, when foster youth…
What Happens to Foster Kids When They Age Out? A System That Leaves Too Many Behind There’s long been a public sentiment that children in foster care often get a raw deal. They lose their families, are shuffled from one unfamiliar home to another, and often lack basic stability or security. While foster care is…
Foster Care and Mental Health, Part 2: Reactive Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorders Welcome back. In Part 1 of this series, we explored the devastating emotional impact that foster care can have on children—particularly the widespread prevalence of depression and anxiety disorders following removal from their homes. Now we turn to two additional, and often…
New Michigan Law Demands Greater Transparency From the Office of Children’s Ombudsman In a move to improve oversight of Michigan’s child welfare system, recently enacted legislation now requires the Office of Children’s Ombudsman (OCO) to release redacted reports following investigations into allegations of child abuse or neglect. These reforms aim to bring long-overdue transparency and…
There are many government institutions that could use a revamp (or a complete do-over, depending on who you ask!) But the one we seem to deal with the most, and whose glaring flaws are particularly obvious to us, is Michigan’s Child Protective Services. And while many people might say that’s because we’re child abuse defense…
Abuse Of Disabled Woman Caught On Camera Strathmoor Manor, an adult care facility in Detroit, recently had its foster care license suspended in the wake of a horrific video released to the press. The footage captured documentation of one of the facility’s caregivers, Kadia Konate-Dennard, violently abusing a young disabled woman who was a resident…