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November is National
Adoption Month. Nationwide, there are 115,000 children and youth in
foster care waiting for adoptive families. Find national resources on
National Adoption Month here.
The Youth
Court Questionnaire has now been released by the Nebraska Foster Youth
Council and the Through the Eyes of the Child Initiative as a method for
children and youth to provide input in their cases. If you are a
Guardian ad Litem, caseworker, Service Coordinator, or someone who works
with youth, you are urged to encourage them to complete it. The Youth
Court Questionnaire is intended for any youth with an open CPS case,
regardless of age or placement, at anytime and as often as they would like,
especially since circumstances frequently change. Contact Cassy
Blakely with questions at 402-817-2003 or cbla...@nebraskachildren.org.
The Through the Eyes of
the Child Initiative, through the Nebraska Court Improvement Project, has
developed a Microgrant Project that will be funding up to $10,000 total per
year in local projects proposed by local teams. The project is aimed
to allow local teams to lead development and implementation of small projects
that will improve abuse/neglect court processing in their communities.
The deadline to apply for a grant is February 1, 2011. For more
information, contact your local Team Coordinator or Kelli Hauptman at khaup...@unl.edu.
2009 Team Data
Reports now available online
The Team Data Reports
that were released at the 2010 Regional Conferences are now available online. These
reports cover all foster care cases that were closed in 2009. Teams
are encouraged to use the reports to guide action plan development.
If you have questions, please contact Kelli
Hauptman.
Upcoming Judges
Webinar
As requested, the judges
webinar below is being repeated live on November 17th at noon
Central Time. Judges will receive more information by e-mail.
- November 17th: How to Lead
an Effective Multidisciplinary Court Team, Nancy Miller, Director,
Permanency Planning for Children Department, NCJFCJ
This webinar will
address the role of a judge as the leader of a multidisciplinary court team
and how judges can ensure better outcomes from their teams’ efforts through
more effective leadership. Focus will be on abuse/neglect
multidisciplinary teams that are part of the Through the Eyes of the Child
Initiative.
Oral Argument of Abuse/Neglect Cases
Oral arguments in abuse/neglect cases made before the Nebraska
Supreme Court and Nebraska Court of Appeals are available on the Through
the Eyes website. You may stream the audio on your computer, or
download it to play on an iPod or other mobile device.
Oral arguments held in November:
Caselaw Summaries
Trying to find an abuse/neglect case but can’t remember the case
name? Use our search engine for abuse/neglect cases since 2006.
Cases can be searched by keyword. To begin a search, click here.
- In re Interest of Ramon N. (18
Neb. App. 574, ____ N.W.2d ____, October 5, 2010) Refusal to
invalidate an adjudication order that was not ICWA compliant was
proper because ICWA provisions apply prospectively from the formal
identification of the child as Indian, because there was no basis for
collateral attack and because Neb. Rev. Stat. 43-1507 does not apply
where there is no denial of substantive protections of ICWA. Being a
member of a tribe and the mother of the child are not sufficient facts
to establish that the person is a qualified expert under ICWA. Full
Opinion
- In re Interest of Maddison T.
(unpublished opinion, October 26, 2010) Immediate termination after
removal was proper based on prior terminations and evidence
establishing that the mother continued to struggle with drug addiction
and mental health issues. Full
Opinion
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