NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. So birth parents become, at best, nonentities, at worst those awful people their foster or adoptive parent friends told them about.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 27, 2022
She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. And so, Mossaides concludes A decision to explore adoption for Harmony should have been pursued earlier.
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Relias
JULY 5, 2023
In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed. However, there is some hope in the form of federal assistance for the child welfare system.
KVC
JUNE 13, 2023
We celebrate the inspiring ways children and adults have healed from serious challenges like strained family relationships, mental health needs, addiction, loneliness and hopelessness. The post Stories of Life-Changing Connections: Mental Health Support, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption appeared first on KVC Health Systems.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Or will they uphold their commitments to child safety through family preservation? -- Based on her extensive research Prof. Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws.
KVC
MAY 24, 2022
We celebrate the inspiring ways children and adults have healed from serious challenges like strained family relationships, mental health needs, addiction, loneliness and hopelessness. Our Two Families Became One’: Fostering Leads to Adoption and a Lifelong Relationship. We received many entries to our 2021 Story Contest.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 12, 2023
Somehow, however, this most essential and defining aspect of being human has been overshadowed or cast aside in the industry known as child welfare. Yet when adoptive parents want to cut children off from any and all contact with their birth parents, those birth parents usually have no recourse.
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