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Massachusetts pilots the most promising reform in child welfare. Guess who’s trying to undercut it.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. I know that the advocacy community conflates neglect with poverty," Mossaides said. Enter the Fearmonger-in-Chief Mass. Then it was back to the fearmongering.

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Social Work Blog

In 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , Gerald O’Brien provides a resource to overcome these challenges, because policy familiarity contributes to social workers’ fundamental understanding of the individuals, communities, institutions, and governments they serve.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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Power, privilege, and passing judgment in “child welfare”: The Massachusetts “Child Advocate” gets it wrong again

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 20, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In that article, Alexandra Travis writes about her own experience with family destruction and then asks: Tell me, if you knew our story, would you still advocate so fiercely for adoption and termination? One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Added Prof.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 1, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

During that period, state, local, federal government and neighbors stepped in. Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed.

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NCCPR news and commentary year in review, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. But read it only if you are ready to reconsider everything you think you know about adoption. ● In North Carolina, WBTV produced a series of reports documenting the harm done to children and families by hidden foster care in that state.