University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Administration for Children and Families Grant cooperative agreement sub-award of $300,000. This project allows us to focus on supporting families and preventing child maltreatment in our home state rather than waiting until things get to the point where the child welfare system opens a case,” says Phillips.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

The study found that when COVID-19 forced the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, to step back and community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up, the trauma of needless investigation and foster care was significantly reduced, with no compromise of safety.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

Here are the entry numbers from 2012 to 2020: Entries into foster care in Arizona 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 10,663 10,790 12,209 12,722 11,729 10,057 9,173 9,607 9,583 Sources: 2012 to 2019: Administration for Children and Families AFCARS database. 2020: Arizona Department of Child Safety Semi-Annual Child Welfare Reports.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Get Involved (Advocate) Child Abuse Prevention Month Digital Advocacy Day 2024 [link] Trainings and Resources Social Workers Out-Front on the Harms of Corporal Punishment [link] NASW Social Work Talks Podcast Supporting Families to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect EP84: Supporting Families To Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect (socialworkers.org) Shielding (..)

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. Practical Pros and Cons : AI can boost the productivity of administrative tasks and richer educational content. Todd Sage , Ph.D., Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Alan Dettlaff, was invited by the Child Welfare League of America, a trade association whose members include agencies paid for each day they hold children in foster care, to write the forward for an issue of one of their journals. A founder of the upEND Movement, Prof. So think carefully before you click here. ●

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

This gathering, which drew child welfare administrators and practitioners from across the nation, was a crucial platform for discussing the opportunities and challenges presented by the new, flexible licensing standards issued by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in September 2023. million views.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

● Gothamist reports that Black communities in New York City have long said the city's child welfare agency has subjected them to an unmatched degree of scrutiny and that their families have borne the brunt of forced separations.

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Doin' The Work

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Join the mailing list Support the podcast Download transcript In this episode, I talk with Ronnita Waters, who is the Program Operations Administrator at the Center for Family and Child Enrichment, Inc. in Miami, Florida. in Miami, Florida.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

is a child welfare agency that works to end the cycle of child abuse and neglect through comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. s programs, services, management, and administration. Shelter, Inc. Shelter, Inc. COA Accreditation evaluated all aspects of Shelter Inc.’s

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Dorothy Roberts , who explains: “A promising trend that this lawsuit is part of is recognizing that enforcing parents’ constitutional rights is critical to an approach to child welfare that truly benefits children. So I reprinted that part, in full. You cannot support children by terrorizing their families.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Khadijah Abdurahman, who is both a parent with lived experience dealing with New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services – and a Tech Research Fellow at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. We begin with a photo: Check out the ads on New York City buses, from JMac For Families: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It’s all in a report commissioned by the Administration for Children’s Services itself. Yesterday: Context for the new study : The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? Emphasis in original].

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Here’s what you’ll find in it: PREFATORY MATERIAL Editor’s Note—Growth in Unprecedented Times, Nicolás Quaid Galván Foreword—Strengthened Bonds: Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well Being, Nancy D. The full issue is here. Polikoff & Jane M. Khadijah Abdurahman In other news: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

● Last week’s round-up began with the New York Times story about a landmark lawsuit against the New York City family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services. As a child, she reported drug use in her home to the child welfare agency with the hope it would improve her situation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Whether it’s housing subsidies, child care assistance, or cash aid, there appears to be the same positive effect — reducing CPS reports. Unfortunately, the federal Administration for Children and Families hasn’t quite gotten the message. The post includes excellent recommendations for reform. ●

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inSocialWork

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Suggestions for individuals interested in research addressing social justice in the child welfare system are provided. Her research focuses on social justice in the child welfare system, and ways that organizational and policy contexts can affect practice in child welfare and other human services settings.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

Only in a system as morally bankrupt as “child welfare” could it be considered acceptable to make children pay an allowance to their substitute parents. It’s also interesting to see where the money DHS steals from foster children is going: It’s used to pay their foster parents.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

NASW Senior Practice Associate, School Social Work and Child Welfare. It was during the Clinton Administration when then President Bill Clinton declared November National Adoption Month. Here are some resources: Requirements to Adopt a Child. November 23rd marks National Adoption Day.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

New data from Pennsylvania confirm: When America’s child welfare establishment fearmongers predicted that COVID would bring on a “pandemic of child abuse” it was just the usual health terrorism. By 2021 even people who run family policing agencies admitted that there had been no pandemic of child abuse.

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MARCH 23, 2022

Dorothy Roberts’ new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families -- and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World The event, sponsored by Rise, takes place April 16, and it’s available in person or online. ? This week we start with an upcoming event: The New York debut of Prof. You can register here. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Roberts understood before anyone, that family policing – a more accurate term than “child welfare” – is a reproductive justice issue. Gothamist has a story about how she raised $40,000 for an ad campaign to tell families their rights when the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, is at the door.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 4, 2023

So in Massachusetts, where you can seek an administrative hearing to fight your way out, even though the burden of proof is on you to show you are innocent, families win about half the time. DCF is now providing administrative hearings for those who appeal “substantiated concern” determinations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Two years ago, New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, commissioned a study of racism in the agency. There’s been so much news since the last round-up that I’m dividing this one up into two parts. Part two, tomorrow, is just for stories about Florida. ? ACS’ response: Don’t release the report!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The New York City Administration for Children's Services Uses Highly Coercive Tactics to Illegally Search Tens of Thousands of Families’ Homes Every Year. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

The Bronx Defenders is suing New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, over such a case. You may think you know all about the evil - and that is the word -- inflicted on Native American children by the Child Welfare League of America – but now please read this from The New York Times.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The real story of COVID-19 and “child welfare” was not a “pandemic of child abuse” -- that never happened. The state’s child welfare “ombuds” investigated and found that KING got it right. Speaking of dangerous delusions about adoption, check out Prof. Shanta Trivedi’s analysis, in Ms. , NYN Media has that story.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Commission on Civil Rights is examining racism in the New York family policing system (a more accurate term than “child welfare” system). The New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. New York’s institutional providers of family defense prepared in-depth written testimony that is a report in itself.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a final rule regarding licensing and approval standards for kinship placements. Background There are calls to change the child welfare system to promote better outcomes for children. What does This Mean for Child Welfare Social Workers?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I have written before about how mandatory child abuse reporting laws backfire. They overload child welfare systems – or as they should be called, “family policing systems” -- with false reports and cases in which poverty is confused with neglect , stealing time from finding the few children in real danger.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

On The Imprint podcast, journalist Rebecca Nagle discusses her findings about the campaign to destroy the Indian Child Welfare Act. ? But will Oregon’s Senator Soundbite try to undercut even this progress? I have a blog post about it. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

These stories appeared just in March and April of 2023: ● In San Diego , KNSD-TV reports , A San Diego mother filed a $10 million wrongful death claim against the county last month, saying Child Welfare Services failed her 11-year-old biological daughter, Aarabella McCormack, who died in the hospital last August. The boy wasn’t lying.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. At long last, it appears America’s racial justice reckoning might be starting to reach child welfare. ? We begin this week not just with one story but with an entire magazine.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Now, as pediatric ICUs fill with COVID-19 patients and kids are rushed back into classrooms – sometimes without masks and too young for vaccines – this NCCPR Blog post offers a reminder of how child welfare establishment fearmongering helped make things worse. ? Obviously, they can’t. And here’s what Rise wants don’t instead. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Gothamist has real news about what should be called fake Miranda rights – the notices that New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, will give parents when ACS caseworkers pound on their doors.

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Doin' The Work

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

We discuss the disproportionate numbers of Black and Brown children, as well as children in poverty, who are removed from their parents, and how racism and systemic oppression set the framework of many child welfare policies and practices. I hope you enjoy the conversation. . Twitter @BronxDefenders. Facebook @bronxdefenders .

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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