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

MARCH 14, 2023

In San Diego, Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother not because she abused them, but because they witnessed domestic violence. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. Arabella’s mother is suing – and still fighting for the return of Arabella’s sisters, who remain in foster care. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

The actual evidence of the inherent harm of foster care and the high rate of abuse in foster care is so overwhelming, that all they can do is try to distract us with horror stories. The mother says Arabella was taken because she’s witnessed domestic violence, a tragically common reason for wrongful removal.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 14, 2024

Among those who suffer most: Children of domestic violence victims. Terrified that their children will be taken under laws labeling them bad parents for “allowing” their children to see them being beaten, a national survey found that domestic violence survivors fear seeking help – often for good reason.

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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. Mezzo Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, it’s also safer. That may help explain how a tragedy like this death in foster care could occur. ● In this blog post, I suggest a better idea.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in foster care on any given day -- is even worse. She said no.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. The Western New England Law Review has a superb summary of the research showing the enormous harm to children caused when they are taken from domestic violence survivors. The article interweaves compelling case examples and a mass of research.

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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

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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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

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. Then I know [no one] will ever be able to put us in a foster home again. That’s best case – it doesn’t even begin to account for the high rate of abuse in foster care itself.

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