NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that article, Alexandra Travis writes about her own experience with family destruction and then asks: Tell me, if you knew our story, would you still advocate so fiercely for adoption and termination? One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Added Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

As CBC News reports, that suit calls the modern Canadian family policing system "the next round of cultural genocide and discrimination toward First Nations." ● Two big new studies, one in JAMA Open and one in Academic Pediatrics examine who gets drug tested in hospitals and who doesn’t. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them.

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Anyone who cares about child and family wellbeing is encouraged to attend! This includes donors, volunteers, advocates, partner organizations, kinship families, resource families including foster and adoptive parents, youth and adult clients, and KVC team members nationwide. Learn more about this special event!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? And in Seattle, Fox 13 reports , a judge ruled that a rush to judgment by a doctor at Seattle Children’s Hospital was "based on conscious and unconscious bias towards people from minority communities. Or haven’t been reunited with them?

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator. Macro Social Work. Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

The Washington State Standard reports that Washington State is easing a policy that had required hospitals to automatically turn in to the family police the parents of any newborn “affected” by the mother’s substance use. I have a blog post about it. ● Of course, not everyone is happy about this.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Also: You know all those stories claiming there was an increase in hospital admissions for abusive head trauma? Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. That wasn’t true either. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Last month, two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. THE CITY reports on a fight in the New York City Council over whether ACS will continue to be able to run roughshod over families. ? Not one of those words came from a birth parent.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator Macro Social Work Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

For example, KVC and its supporters care for thousands of children in foster care , help hundreds of children either to be adopted or to safely reunify with their families , and provide life-changing treatment at its children’s mental health hospitals.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 14, 2024

And rather than face clandestine drug testing and suspicion from medical professionals who are mandatory reporters, pregnant people stay away from prenatal care and giving birth in hospitals. Mandatory reporting is where the racial bias that permeates family policing begins.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

(And CWLA’s long-ago apology rings hollow – since they still support draconian policing laws such as the so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.) And see also this story from Searchlight New Mexico, which focuses on a Native American child adopted by a well-meaning white couple.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. KVC Kansas. KVC Missouri. KVC Nebraska. KVC Kentucky.

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Like the organizations, agencies, and people who have been voicing concerns across social media and reaching out to NASW-NYC in light of the announcement, we too learned of the Mayor’s plan to involuntarily hospitalize people, when it was announced.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) Two months later he was dead.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

Volunteer your time to organizations such as KVC Health Systems or Prevent Child Abuse, either through parenting support classes, drug abuse prevention and treatment programs or foster care support events. Educate yourself and others on how to prevent child abuse. Mentor a child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune , which broke the story that is the subject of the Netflix documentary Take Care of Maya, reports on what the hospital accused of doing the child so much harm is up to now. Her adoptive parents, Isaac and Lehua Kalua, have been charged with murder. The discovery was somewhat selective.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

During the final days of the Vietnam War, Americans grabbed hundreds of Vietnamese "orphans" and flew them out of their country for adoption in the United States. military hospital, she had gone to live with her cousin and his wife, this newlywed couple. But many of them were not orphans. After months in a U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

But no matter how much they try to hide it, it’s another trade association full of private foster care and “residential treatment” agencies. The actual amount of money states get through CAPTA is tiny – they would save more by defying its odious provisions, thereby reducing needless investigations and foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in foster care. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. As is so common with Therolf’s stories, this implies that holding children in foster care is safe and only returning a child home can place a child “at risk.”

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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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