Community Care
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. This was because of an increasing focus on the role of race in identity formation and the challenges of transracial adoptions.
Community Care
MARCH 6, 2022
The decline in the number of adoptions since 2015 is continuing while children are waiting longer on average to be placed despite an expanding pool of approved adopters, official figures show. for regional adoption agencies, from 2022-25, sparking renewed calls for investment in the rest of the care system. Related articles.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
Ariel Sellers, as she was known before her adoption, was reported missing by her foster/adoptive parents. They say Hawaii’s family police agency, known as “Child Welfare Services” (CWS) ignored them. ? They say Hawaii’s family police agency, known as “Child Welfare Services” (CWS) ignored them. ? Honolulu police dept.
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. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.
KVC
MARCH 30, 2022
Nearly one-quarter will be adopted, many by their foster parents. On the other hand, more than 15,000 18-year-olds age out of the foster care system each year without reuniting with their families or being adopted. There’s a particular n eed for diversity in foster parents as well. The need for more foster homes continues.
KVC
APRIL 18, 2024
KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2023
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. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.
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