NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Publisher’s Weekly interviewed Roxanna Asgarian about her forthcoming book, We Were Once a Family , the story of “how flaws in the child welfare system contributed to the 2018 murder-suicide of six children by their adoptive parents.” Mom was late picking her up from school. Good thing they don’t have anything else to do.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services Trends in Foster Care and Adoption, FFY 2011-2020 Using the same limited measures, OPEGA suggests that child abuse deaths in June 2021 didn’t have much effect, since investigations didn’t increase. The report claims that parents have the right to refuse to let their children be interviewed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. But Alberi seems to want OCFS to adopt a policy that boils down to: Please pass the salt. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Or will they uphold their commitments to child safety through family preservation? -- Based on her extensive research Prof. 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.

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