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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

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator. Macro Social Work. Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator Macro Social Work Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. In September you send your son off to boarding school. Janell, thrilled to avoid reading time, trotted off to the school office.

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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. ? Remember when children could walk home from school by themselves or even play in a playground without parents hovering over them? One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.

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News Items – March 2, 2023

Social Workers Speak

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. is looking to re-engage social workers – and future social workers and their faculty.