System Failure

The deaths of two young children in recent years bear some similarities. Parents of both AJ Freund and Sema’j Crosby had been contacted repeatedly by child-welfare workers. Both had been allowed to remain in the home despite sometimes squalid living conditions. Both died in the home. Why couldn’t the state’s child-welfare system protect these two children? Shaw Media Illinois will share what it has found in its investigating and share compelling stories of those affected by the child-welfare system.

Episodes

Episode 2: Her tireless Knight

February 14, 2020 • 19 mins

A DCFS worker trying to take a child into protective custody is beaten into a coma by the child's father and dies four months later. Some of the root causes of bad outcomes for DCFS workers and kids in the child welfare system – overworked and undersupported DCFS caseworkers, weak safety protocols, a revolving door of caseworkers with varied standards and a state government unable to agree on even simple changes – remain, a Shaw Me...

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Episode 1: When it works, when it doesn't

January 29, 2020 • 27 mins

What does it take to remove a child from the home? And why weren't AJ Freund or Sema'j Crosby? Our first episode on what happened and why.

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Intro to System Failure

January 28, 2020 • 2 mins

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System Failure

Episodes

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Intro to System Failure

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Episode 2: Her tireless Knight

Episode 1: When it works, when it doesn't