NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” And what will these groups do with the $20 million?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. Source: U.S. There are three problems with this: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. That’s not because they want to hurt children, of course. That is almost never true.

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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. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. How do you write a social work article? Recommended Books. Social Work Registration.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

We interviewed them to learn more about what it’s like to serve in these important roles with KVC. I had a friend encourage me to apply to KVC, to explore if social work in the child welfare system would be a good fit. She found a job listing from KVC in her search for a career in child welfare after graduating from college.

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Our interviews also require more than just an ear for words: hearing gaps, hearing what someone’s not saying, and picking up what goes unspoken in a facial expression, or even (if someone’s face is covered, or paralysed by a stroke, for example) in body language alone. Assessment can (consciously or not) promote other agendas.

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