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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, weeks ending Nov. 28, 2023

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Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. One of those two things has now prompted the Biden Administration to propose regulations to curb this practice. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

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

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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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In Oregon white middle-class foster parents try to play the bonding card to prevent relatives from taking custody of their Asian-American niece

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His administration used it as a justification for not returning children his administration took at the Mexican border. wound up with the foster parents long enough for their supporters to claim those foster parents are “the only family she’s ever known.” A mong the many who done it: Donald Trump. Yet somehow, A.N.