NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
To read the account on CR’s website you’d think their suit turned a dreadful, failing “child welfare” system into a shining success story. But just four years later, the Tennessee Department of Child Services, their family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) has opened a bunch of new ones.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. And they commissioned a poll from Gallup , which appears to have been geared toward encouraging more Black families to foster and adopt. But there is. I don’t know.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 23, 2022
As America’s racial justice reckoning finally catches up with “child welfare” – or, as it should be called, family policing – the “child welfare establishment is engaged in its own campaign of reputation laundering. High-quality defense counsel for all families at risk of being caught in the family police net. ?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 22, 2022
The child welfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. The child welfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. We have always been at war with Eurasia.”
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 27, 2022
As America’s racial justice reckoning finally catches up with “child welfare” – or, as it should be called, family policing – the “child welfare establishment is engaged in its own campaign of reputation laundering. Not one has embraced any change that would actually diminish the police power of “child welfare.”
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 24, 2022
That’s the current name of a child welfare trade association that co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. Yet none of the recent trips to the reputation laundry from child welfare establishment groups includes support for any proposal that would reduce their power.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
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. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.
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