Beyond Advocacy

JANUARY 5, 2024

It had been the subject of her dissertation titled In the Best Interest of the Family: The Outcomes of Children in Foster Care with an Incarcerated Parent and the Adverse Implications of the Adoptions and Safe Families Act. Angelique Day, her former professor at Wayne State University.

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yolanda has also worked for the Foster Care & Adoptive Services Division where she provided oversight and support to foster parents, conducted training for kinship providers, facilitated support groups, licensed kinship foster homes and relicensed foster homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Substance Abuse 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

Even the minimal due process protections in criminal justice are effectively null and void in “child welfare.” Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep. A police officer in a blue uniform can stop a Black youth, throw him against a wall and frisk him.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

In no place in the American criminal-justice system, he reportedly testified, would it be considered either ethically or legally permissible to keep children from their parents for punitive purposes after their legal process is completed. But only because family policing is part of the civil, not criminal legal system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

It was tried first in criminal justice – and proven to be racially biased. 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. It amounts to computerized racial profiling. Anthony Avalos. Noah Cuatro.

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