Adoption Advocacy Interviewing Welfare 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” Oh, don’t get me wrong. Admittedly, that’s not a lot.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 23, 2023
If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. I know that the advocacy community conflates neglect with poverty," Mossaides said. Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 17, 2022
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? Did the ABA apologize for its own role in supporting racially biased “child welfare” laws and initiatives? But they came damn close.
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 2, 2022
? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? But things have taken a strange turn in Maine.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2022
There’s still more about the harm of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ● In The Imprint , Kathleen Creamer, managing attorney of the Family Advocacy Unit at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia writes: My clients are the children of ASFA. It involves, yes, a questionnaire about adverse childhood experiences.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2021
This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. That’s not because they want to hurt children, of course. That is almost never true.
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