La razón principal por la cual las adopciones de niños en custodia temporal en Colorado fracasan es por un “problema con el comportamiento del niño”. ¿Cómo tratamos el trastorno de apego reactivo o la pérdida relacionada con la adopción?
Jennifer Brown
Jennifer Brown writes about mental health, the child welfare system, the disability community and homelessness for The Colorado Sun. As a former Montana 4-H kid, she also loves writing about agriculture and ranching.
Brown previously worked at the Hungry Horse News in Montana, the Tyler Morning Telegraph in Texas, The Associated Press in Oklahoma City, and The Denver Post before helping found The Sun in 2018.
Topic expertise: Mental health, child welfare, homelessness, social services, agriculture
Location: Denver
Language(s) in addition to English: A little bit of Spanish
Education: University of Montana
Honors & Awards: Brown has won several awards from the Colorado Press Association, the Top of the Rockies Society of Professional Journalists, the regional Best of the West and The Katie Awards, and was part of a Denver Post team that won a national Scripps Howard Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
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Colorado solo financia una agencia para que ayude a familias y niños adoptados con pasados traumáticos. Y su presupuesto acaba de recortarse.
De todas las familias que han recibido asesoría informada por el trauma a través de Raise de Future, ninguna ha reportado una adopción interrumpida, según la agencia y el estado.
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El mismo niño adoptado en Colorado puede obtener $1,000 en subsidios mensuales, o nada. ¿El factor decisivo? Dónde vive.
Colorado figura entre solo un puñado de estados donde los condados establecen totalmente los pagos de asistencia para adopciones. El estado está implementando reformas.
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Doble decepción: cuando los niños en custodia temporal en Colorado son adoptados, con frecuencia terminan otra vez en el sistema de bienestar infantil
En la última década, más de 1,000 niños adoptados después de estar en custodia temporal en Colorado terminaron otra vez en el sistema.
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Opioid settlements from Big Pharma are helping Colorado communities fight fentanyl
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Denver Public Schools puts special education director who was subject of past complaints on leave
The district declined to comment on the reasons for removing Michael Winston from his duties or whether they were related to past allegations
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Colorado Medical Board finds that so-called abortion reversal is outside “generally accepted standard of practice”
The rule, which came after hours of discussion, does not go as far as the Democratic-controlled legislature wanted, but comes close to an outright ban
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