Child Welfare System – Michigan

Posted on February 27, 2014 by admin

• Ex-foster children help push for more accountability from system, By Robin Erb, February 27, 2014, Detroit Free Press: “Kamille Tynes finds herself in a place she never expected to be: representing a department she said failed her repeatedly, pushing for a new way for Michigan to demand more accountability from the foster care system. Michigan could join a national movement to offer more pay and bigger contracts to agencies that best serve families and children — and eventually dump the agencies that fail…”
• Michigan’s child welfare system would be more transparent, accountable under new funding plan, By Melissa Anders, February 27, 2014, Mlive: “Michigan plans to change the way it funds child welfare, favoring a system based on performance and outcomes instead of a daily rate for foster care and adoption services. And children would be served by just one provider who would be held accountable for each child’s outcome, rather than having multiple caseworkers…”