NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

But i nstead of getting more money directly into the hands of poor families, they’re going to give up to $10 million over five years to some consultant or other – to teach mandatory reporters and child abuse hotline operators how to stop confusing poverty with neglect! That's certainly a step forward. One is 16, the other 13.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Hierarchy of support Overall, it found that authorities were most likely to support to family and friends foster carers, followed by carers with a special guardianship order (SGO) for the child and then those with a child arrangements order or residence order (CAO/RO) giving them parental responsibility.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The consultations close on 11 May, 2023. As part of this, the DfE will consult on removing the requirement for social workers to lead child in need cases. The DfE will also consult on new multi-agency child protection standards as part of a review of Working Together to Safeguard Children in 2023.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

and best practice training and consultation that stretches around the world, KVC’s presence in its home region of Kansas and Missouri has expanded. Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A Moving Family Reunification Story After Foster Care. Ashley and Sean’s substance use challenges led to their children being removed from their home and put in foster care. Black Children Are Overrepresented in Foster Care: Here’s How We Can Address This Disparity. Read it now. Read it now.

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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.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

And, precisely because most cases we think of when we hear the words “child abuse” are nothing like the horror stories and far more like the case of Logan Marr, the data show that, almost always, family preservation is safer than foster care. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. The Imprint has a story about it all. New Mexico is moving to do a better job providing representation for families in child welfare cases.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

In the Albany Times Union , Madelyn Freundlich, policy research consultant for the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York writes in support of legislation that would replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

(And CWLA’s long-ago apology rings hollow – since they still support draconian policing laws such as the so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.) And see also this story from Searchlight New Mexico, which focuses on a Native American child adopted by a well-meaning white couple.

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