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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.
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.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Remember, family police agencies are supposed to conduct intensive searches to find relatives to care for these children. When the agency sought to persuade the foster parents to adopt, here’s what the foster father says he was told: “Family will come out of the woodwork when we do this. But] We’ll handle them for you.”
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 4, 2022
The end of 2021 brought more outstanding reporting on various dark corners of the “child welfare” system. ? If you tear a child from a parent’s arms, then demand money to give the child back, what’s the right word for the payment? How about TANF as a child welfare slush fund.
Beyond Advocacy
JUNE 13, 2023
If enacted, the bill would expand state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. We will also hear from Duane Price, a young man with experience in foster care whose life was enhanced by getting a car.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
This post is adapted from a virtual presentation I gave last month to the Racial Justice Task Force of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Child and Family Law Division. Today the Department of Public Welfare is the Department of Transitional Assistance. Katz did something simple. She said no.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 25, 2022
Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? But let’s also remember who took the child from his own home in the first place. ?
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