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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.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, weeks ending Nov. 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Among the enormous harms of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is a dramatic escalation in the number of times children’s rights to their parents are terminated.

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Thoughts from the storage boxes

The Vintage Social Worker

The prevailing political dogma was that fostering and possibly adoption were the best option and significantly easier on the purse strings. If it does not… it is likely to harm their interests either directly or indirectly. Our standardised interviewing techniques certainly do not allow exploration of many of these issues.

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Why Assess?

The Critical Blog

It means active listening – letting the service user speak (or communicate in whatever way they find easiest), and becoming an active part of their account, reflecting their thoughts and helping them use their own perspective to improve their own self-knowledge and self-efficacy.