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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 28, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The adoptive parents the family policing system preferred to the grandfather have been charged with their murder. ? NCCPR’s new publication, “Child Welfare” heads to the reputation laundry , includes a guide to how to recognize reputation laundering, and what real change is all about. ? The children are dead.

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NCCPR news and commentary year in review, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Dorothy Roberts’ definitive dissection of racism in family policing: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Some might say the novel depicts a dystopian future child welfare surveillance state. We start with three important books: ● First, Prof.

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Lessons from some extraordinary investigative journalism by The Associated Press

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

During the final days of the Vietnam War, Americans grabbed hundreds of Vietnamese "orphans" and flew them out of their country for adoption in the United States. military raid that killed her parents and five siblings. military hospital, she had gone to live with her cousin and his wife, this newlywed couple.

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International Conference for Social Work Students

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Disclaimer: This conference is devoted to the Human Rights Day (every year on 10 December) — the day when the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Child Welfare. Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy. Aging Services and Gerontology. Disability.