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From the people who brought you AFST: The most dangerous "child welfare" algorithm yet

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun. And sure enough, the developers say, it works! How do they know? Not a lot of money either, since we know that remarkably small amounts of cash are enough to significantly reduce what family police agencies call “neglect.”

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 25, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Expand Medicaid: Less “neglect.” Once again the suffering of poor people will enrich some child welfare establishment group or other. ● The Imprint has a good round-up of research documenting the confusion of poverty with neglect. Raise the minimum wage and you reduce what family policing agencies call “neglect.”

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News Items – November 18, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Michigan agencies seek strategies to address child welfare worker shortage. However, the state is currently facing what one industry leader described as a “critical shortage” of child welfare workers. However, the state is currently facing what one industry leader described as a “critical shortage” of child welfare workers.

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News Items – December 8, 2022

Social Workers Speak

There’s a huge accessibility problem to those who are not on Medicaid within the (community mental health) system, so we need to expand that to some other insurances as well,” Brann said. “We I’ve dealt with some of the most difficult cases: child abuse and neglect prevention, adoption, foster care and more. Washington Exec.

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PART THREE OF FOUR: Reputation laundering in child welfare: “Social Current”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

That’s the current name of a child welfare trade association that co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. Yet none of the recent trips to the reputation laundry from child welfare establishment groups includes support for any proposal that would reduce their power.

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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.