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A reminder: The horror stories go in ALL directions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The actual evidence of the inherent harm of foster care and the high rate of abuse in foster care is so overwhelming, that all they can do is try to distract us with horror stories. The mother says Arabella was taken because she’s witnessed domestic violence, a tragically common reason for wrongful removal.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator. Mezzo Social Work. Macro Social Work. Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator Macro Social Work Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 25, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? The company that makes and sells the particular predictive analytics software that, as the column above documents, failed disastrously, also used to be in charge of foster care in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas County, Florida.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 14, 2021

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center conference: Child Abuse, COVID-19 and the Legacy of “Health Terrorism”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As the trade journal The Imprint reported: “I’m happy to say we really haven’t seen any indicators” of an increase in undetected child abuse, Commissioner of the Administration for Children’s Services David Hansell told the City Council. Then I know [no one] will ever be able to put us in a foster home again.