Michigan: Working to keep families together?
Michigan has never been known, here at FightCPS, for trying to keep families together. During the course of my work as a family rights advocate I’ve received numerous complaints about Michigan DHS and always considered it one of the worst states for child welfare injustice and the persecution of families.
A new prevention program provides three months of in-home help from non-profit social service agencies in Michigan. Working with families identified by the Michigan Department of Human Services as those who might have their children removed if help isn’t provided, in-home caseworkers develop “treatment plans” to keep families out of the child welfare system.
Source: Michigan program working to keep families together, by Jeff Karoub, Associated Press, published on June 11, 2011 by the Detroit Free Press.
A word of caution… though the article states that few of the 2500 families served so far have been sent back to Michigan’s child welfare system, I am aware of cases that stemmed from having in-home visits from post-natal nurses and in-home caseworkers. My preference has always been to keep government agents out of the house in accordance with the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This program may be well-intentioned, but it is still a way to force families to allow social service agents into the home.
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