NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

If this all weren’t so dangerous the answer would be laugh-out-loud funny: They know it works, they say, not because the algorithm was good at predicting actual child abuse, but because, in many cases, it was good at predicting whether a child would wind up in foster care! And sure enough, the developers say, it works!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Expand Medicaid: Less “neglect.” Once again the suffering of poor people will enrich some child welfare establishment group or other. ● The Imprint has a good round-up of research documenting the confusion of poverty with neglect. Raise the minimum wage and you reduce what family policing agencies call “neglect.”

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Social Workers Speak

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Michigan agencies seek strategies to address child welfare worker shortage. However, the state is currently facing what one industry leader described as a “critical shortage” of child welfare workers. Her 20 or so family clients reside in the surrounding rural areas and most are Medicaid participants.

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There’s a huge accessibility problem to those who are not on Medicaid within the (community mental health) system, so we need to expand that to some other insurances as well,” Brann said. “We I’ve dealt with some of the most difficult cases: child abuse and neglect prevention, adoption, foster care and more. Washington Exec.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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.

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