NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The money goes to two adoption advocacy groups (reinforcing the bias that permanency equals adoption, not reunification, and prioritizing paper permanence over what has aptly been called “ relational permanence ”) not one, but two schools of social work, and – I kid you not - a consortium of child welfare system administrators.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

I know that the advocacy community conflates neglect with poverty," Mossaides said. In her interview with NEPM Mossaides made clear she prefers “another new program, based at the nonprofit agency Plummer Youth Promise, that provides mediators to work with parents and the child welfare agency.” Then it was back to the fearmongering.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

The researchers who wrote the article for JAMA Pediatrics debunking the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth discuss their findings in this interview. During that period, state, local, federal government and neighbors stepped in. Youth Today reports on creation of an independent Office of Family Representation and Advocacy. ­?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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