Year: 2025

CPS profits from family separation, turning child welfare into a billion-dollar industry where courts, agencies, and service providers cash in on every removal. It’s a racket that must end. Child Protective Services (CPS) and its various counterparts—such as the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), the Department of Family Services (DFS), the Department of Children and Families (DCF), and other similarly named agencies—operate under the guise of protecting children. In reality, these agencies have become an industry unto themselves, profiting off the removal of children and the destruction of families. Every child taken from their home represents a payday for the state, foster care agencies, court-mandated service providers, and an entire network of professionals whose financial survival depends on keeping the system running. Read More: Click Here

The Trump administration’s call for a funding freeze could total hundreds of billions of dollars, with sweeping impacts on social safety net programs serving children and families. Under threat: child protection and juvenile justice, private foster family agencies, homeless shelters and nonprofits providing foster care services. UPDATE: On Wednesday, the Washington Post and New York Times reported that the White House budget office has “rescinded” its previous memo freezing federal social services grants. The Imprint will continue to inform readers on further developments. In a swipe at social spending that stunned state and local officials and advocates for the poor nationwide, the Trump administration ordered a halt to virtually all federal spending on social services, issuing a directive that sought to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding. Read More: Click…

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WZTV) — FOX 17 News first told you about a Murfreesboro family who had been questioned by The Department of Children’s Services (DCS). DCS alleged the family may have abused their six-month-old daughter, Janae. Read More: https://fox17.com/fox-17-investigates/murfreesboro-family-loses-custody-of-baby-for-months-after-doctor-doesnt-suspect-abuse?fbclid=IwY2xjawJNoNpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHS_vRzWJ6hWAcSUhF1Mvoqvc8F8l6niQupPWQDVWvkztJ-mUA_7Qrd2fcQ_aem_KJYfr38toVe9wwhSBlBZWw

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — A foster family that had served more than 50 children for a decade, says DCS closed their foster home after they complained that DCS was not providing proper services for a very sick toddler in their care. Jesica Lana’s Montgomery County home is never this quiet. It's almost like something is wrong, well, something is wrong. Read More: https://fox17.com/news/local/foster-familys-decade-of-service-ends-amid-dispute-over-care-and-financial-aid-from-dcs?fbclid=IwY2xjawJJnmFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaA0pEjEx_aR2LpvkHX8o1MM00LDFr-lXsSSliDW4yPjmskqgNRHooP1PA_aem_ZWixxgtDmMpKMfan-6Kmvw