NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Combine these two stories with earlier excellent work by the same reporters on family policing agencies diverting some foster youth’s Social Security payments to help run their bureaucracies and you see a pattern, discussed in this NCCPR blog post about foster care as a shakedown scheme.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

From the golden age of "health terrorism" at Prevent child Abuse America Yet after decades of health terrorism that inflicted very real terror on millions of children victimized by needless investigations and needless, abusive foster care, Klika refused to apologize. Karen Bass that would curb its worst excesses. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This post is adapted from a virtual presentation I gave last month to the Racial Justice Task Force of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Child and Family Law Division. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in foster care on any given day -- is even worse. Katz did something simple.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Remember, family police agencies are supposed to conduct intensive searches to find relatives to care for these children. 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. But] We’ll handle them for you.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? The company that makes and sells the particular predictive analytics software that, as the column above documents, failed disastrously, also used to be in charge of foster care in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas County, Florida.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

That’s what they’ve done with the concept of “primary prevention” – turning it into another excuse to load families down with meaningless “counseling” and “parenting education.” Family policing systems have a way of co-opting and perverting good ideas.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Micro Social Work is direct-practice work in which a social worker meets with individuals, families, and small groups to support their treatment needs and improve their quality of life.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

? 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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

High-quality defense counsel for all families at risk of being caught in the family police net. ? Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep. Real child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ?

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Micro Social Work Micro Social Work is direct-practice work in which a social worker meets with individuals, families, and small groups to support their treatment needs and improve their quality of life.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

At that first hearing the detainees may – or may not – get a lawyer just before the hearing begins, and they almost never get effective counsel. But when you look at the lawmakers who lead efforts to make state and local family policing systems even bigger and more powerful, they tend to come from the Left. McCown’s legacy lives on.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in foster care. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. As is so common with Therolf’s stories, this implies that holding children in foster care is safe and only returning a child home can place a child “at risk.”

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Brayn Mares is government relations director for NASW-TX: Texas fights federal rule that would outlaw LGBTQ discrimination in state adoptions and foster care. The Texas Tribune. If the anxiety is severe enough or bothers the client enough, medication can also be used to treat anxiety along with therapy.”

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KVC

JUNE 16, 2022

Counseling can be a tremendous tool for an LGBTQIA+ young person. At KVC Health Systems, we’re here to support every child we serve and provide the best possible resources for their care. Did you know that if you’re an LGBTQIA+ adult, you can foster or adopt? Learn more about becoming a foster parent.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As I embark on this transformative journey, I am committed to adopting a strength-based approach—one that recognises and nurtures the inherent potential within each individual. Strength-Based Approach One of the key aspects of being a social worker is adopting a strength-based approach.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Arons points to the growth of mutual aid networks, community-based and community-run – providing everything from food and diapers to child care and counseling. In Phoenix Arizona, 20% of all Black children will be torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. In addition, Prof.

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