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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The money goes to two adoption advocacy groups (reinforcing the bias that permanency equals adoption, not reunification, and prioritizing paper permanence over what has aptly been called “ relational permanence ”) not one, but two schools of social work, and – I kid you not - a consortium of child welfare system administrators.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 16, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? Last week, we noted the stunning Atlantic cover story about the Trump Administration policy of trying to destroy families at the Mexican border. One reason New York City tears apart families at less than half the rate of Philadelphia is an infrastructure of family advocacy and family defense unmatched anywhere in America.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.