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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 12, 2023
You probably remember the story: White adoptive parents of six black children drive themselves and the children off a cliff, killing them all. She found children who not only never should have been placed with the adoptive parents who killed them; they never needed to be placed with strangers at all. Emphasis added.]
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 23, 2023
This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. It’s one reason New York City’s rate of removal is well under one-third the rate of Massachusetts, even when rates of child poverty are factored in.
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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.” Where oh where to begin. Oh, don’t get me wrong.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from foster care. In Dayton, Ohio, a misdiagnosis of child abuse forced infants into foster care for nearly a year.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 27, 2022
Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. You can read about those data here and here.
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
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The previous round-up began by comparing a real-life case to the depiction of a dystopian child welfare surveillance state portrayed in Jessamine Chan’s novel The School for Good Mothers Now, Let Grow has a comprehensive comparison between the novel and the real world of family policing. It is not reassuring. ?
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