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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, weeks ending January 4, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? Unfortunately, Alberi’s approach is not unusual.

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How to Support LGBTQIA+ Youth: Gender-Affirming Care and Resources

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One report revealed that this support and acceptance is associated with greater self-esteem, social support, general health status, less depression, less substance abuse and less suicidal ideation and behaviors among LGBTQIA+ youth. Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.

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Garrett Therolf and the Magic Algorithm!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

He co-authors a “news analysis” for the Los Angeles Times that sounds like a pitch by a company selling “predictive analytics” software for child welfare. The post talked about Therolf’s profound discomfort with any suggestion that there is systemic racial bias in child welfare. Second of two parts. Read part one here.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Or will they uphold their commitments to child safety through family preservation? -- Based on her extensive research Prof. 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.