NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This post is adapted from a virtual presentation I gave last month to the Racial Justice Task Force of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Child and Family Law Division. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in foster care on any given day -- is even worse. Katz did something simple.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. Parents who lose their children to foster care, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Arons points to the growth of mutual aid networks, community-based and community-run – providing everything from food and diapers to child care and counseling. In Phoenix Arizona, 20% of all Black children will be torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. In addition, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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