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NCCPR at the Kempe Center conference: The case against CASA

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. We’ll give ‘em 30 hours of training – ok, maybe 40. But it has failed.

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UPDATE: Federal Rule to Prevent Surprise Health Care Billing – Application to Clinical Social Workers

Social Work Blog

This blog post updates information from our post of December 21, 2021. If you reviewed our December 21 post, you may also find it helpful to review this one. If you reviewed our December 21 post, you may also find it helpful to review this one. If these do apply to you, further information is provided below.

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A Florida county sheriff says a private agency warehoused children in conditions so horrible he’s launching a criminal investigation. But guess who took away the kids in the first place.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It seems he’s noticed something we’ve been pointing out on our Florida blog for years: Eckerd Connects, the longtime “lead agency” responsible for what happens to foster children after they’re torn from their homes in Pinellas and neighboring Pasco and Hillsborough Counties, has been doing a terrible job. ( You don’t whine about it,” he says.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But I missed it until early this year, and I link to it now, as I did then, because I am in awe of the work from Raquel Rutledge of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Ken Armstrong of ProPublica that went into it and the skill required to tell this story. Suppose you are very rich. Another important book was released in 2023.