Adoption Confidentiality Foster Care Social Worker 
KVC
MARCH 15, 2022
KVC Health Systems’ largest subsidiary, KVC Kansas , has been a foster care case management provider on behalf of the Kansas Department for Children and Families since 1996. In addition to uncovering valuable insights, this partnership will help students learn about the ethical, confidential and privacy aspects of data.
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. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.
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. Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ●
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 3, 2022
The independent researchers, who received data from the county, also found that social workers disagreed with the risk scores the algorithm produced about one-third of the time. In my own commentary for CommonWealth Magazine last month, I suggested some alternatives. ?
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