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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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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 13, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● As is so often the case, the professor’s comments minimize the harm of one of the worst “adverse childhood experiences” a child can endure – being torn from everyone s/he knows and loves and thrown into foster care. There’s still more about the harm of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ●

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The researchers who wrote the article for JAMA Pediatrics debunking the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth discuss their findings in this interview. 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.

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center conference: The case against CASA

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Did the entire American Bar Association just go on record calling for the repeal of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Multi-Ethnic Placement Act? He discusses his work in New York City and his current work building family advocacy internationally in this podcast from the Kempe Center. ?

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.