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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 13, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

When the agency sought to persuade the foster parents to adopt, here’s what the foster father says he was told: “Family will come out of the woodwork when we do this. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) But here the family police give away what really happens. But] We’ll handle them for you.”

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The failure of the child welfare McLawsuits, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The public policy arm has done outstanding work questioning things like the mad rush to terminate children’s rights to their parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights) to push them into adoptive homes. A member of NCCPR’s Board of Directors was co-counsel for plaintiffs.)

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Pushing back on a child welfare poll full of loaded questions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. And they commissioned a poll from Gallup , which appears to have been geared toward encouraging more Black families to foster and adopt. But there is. None of it was true.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 14, 2021

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Micro Social Workers include the following: Psychotherapist Child Protection and Family Services Worker Foster Care & Adoption Worker Juvenile Court Liasion School Social Worker Court Advocate Probation Officer Rehabilitation Case Worker Medical Social Worker Substance Recovery Worker Forensic Social Worker Case Manager Group Therapist Behavioral (..)

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When The Trauma is Extreme

Gary Direnfeld

Amazingly she had already adopted a number of strategies and capacities from those previous helpers. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 25, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.