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Massachusetts pilots the most promising reform in child welfare. Guess who’s trying to undercut it.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Cara, who asked to keep her last name private, said she had already been in touch with a domestic violence organization about her ex. And, according to its own brochure , the Plummer program encourages something called “concurrent planning” which further stacks the deck against families and in favor of foster parents who want to adopt.*

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“Maybe we're just too damn intrusive": Tracing the take-the-child-and-run mentality that has endangered Massachusetts children for more than a century

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation. FAMILY FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE HOMES Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother because they witnessed domestic violence. That’s where Arabella died.

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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. 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.