NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Now The Imprint reports on how the same agency used the same tactics to undermine legislation to replace anonymous child abuse reporting with confidential reporting. One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It in contrast, passed bills to do both.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

They’re out to preference strangers over families in many adoption cases. Now, KDVR-TV reports, she’s persuaded a state legislator to introduce a bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. ● But the horrors about foster care in Kansas are not coming from kinship caregivers.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Over the last 25 years, KVC Kansas has served tens of thousands of children and families with parenting education and support, mental health treatment, foster care, family reunification services, adoption, and other vital services. Students will also learn about how to recognize and account for implicit bias in data.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

APRIL 11, 2022

This person may be a family member or a stranger, and the child may or may not need to be adopted out, depending on if the family member loses custody. Answer these ten confidential questions developed with the CDC and understand your warning signs. Read about the ten categories of ACEs by following our blog. Take the ACE test here.

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Learning Social Worker

OCTOBER 9, 2018

For example; reminding the child about confidentiality, safety during the session or agreeing how to stop or change an activity if it is too difficult. 2013) Digital lifestory work: using technology to help young people make sense of their experiences, London, British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF). Keep these minimal.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. The identity of a complainant is protected under confidentiality laws and social services must follow these regulations in order to protect the privacy of all parties involved.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

So the only real answer is to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting – as Texas has done , though too late to prevent a tragedy. --All Her adoptive parents, Isaac and Lehua Kalua, have been charged with murder.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Court records detail retaliation against attorneys, breaches of confidentiality to benefit the foster parent and an illegal audio recording in open court. It speaks volumes about the Florida CASA program that their email effectively adopts the position that all families are guilty. As we’ve seen other CASA chapters do much the same. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. The state allowed the couple to retain custody of their foster children and later adopt them despite nearly 20 complaints of misconduct.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Among the enormous harms of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is a dramatic escalation in the number of times children’s rights to their parents are terminated.

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The Critical Blog

MAY 10, 2021

In doing so, I hope to do something useful, which might help people who will encounter families such as mine and want to do the best they can to help in this most delicate situation where heartbreak and patient confidentiality collide. I know that the team of people supporting my son were highly professional. How about the term ‘lower GI’?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 11, 2023

Another bill largely (though not completely) replaces anonymous reporting to the state’s child abuse hotline with confidential reporting. The anonymous reporting bill The first bill discussed specifically in the Tribune story is the one largely replacing anonymous reporting with confidential reporting.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 2, 2023

In addition to the direct services we provide to individuals, families, couples, and groups, we also work to advocate at a systems level to ensure that laws and policies are adopted so everyone can live safely and to their fullest potential. Confidentiality is something that our profession makes as a core principle,” said Wanczyk-Karp.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 2, 2023

In addition to the direct services we provide to individuals, families, couples, and groups, we also work to advocate at a systems level to ensure that laws and policies are adopted so everyone can live safely and to their fullest potential. Confidentiality is something that our profession makes as a core principle,” said Wanczyk-Karp.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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