Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. Yet, study after study show child abuse and neglect is lower in Black families than white families. When we do that, we will have made huge strides toward making the child welfare system fair for all.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. She has repeatedly misused her power and privilege. In a report on Harmony’s case, Mossaides exercises that judgment ruthlessly.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? s Child Welfare System Racist? There was the headline: “Is N.Y.’s

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. And his TED Talk on the benefits of placing children with family members has more than 1.2

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In The Grio, Shereen White, director of advocacy and policy at Children’s Rights, and Prof. As a child, she reported drug use in her home to the child welfare agency with the hope it would improve her situation. The group’s executive director is Tatiana Rodriguez. Instead, she said, she was placed with a foster family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in child welfare. Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty. Even then, reporters condemned it as a “carnival.” (I

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. This one takes on what may be the most dangerous phrase in the family policing lexicon: “best interests of the child.” That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He He continues as a professor.) I have a blog post about it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Dorothy Roberts’ definitive dissection of racism in family policing: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Some might say the novel depicts a dystopian future child welfare surveillance state. We start with three important books: ● First, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

? Last week, I was asked to list the most important contributions to the field of family advocacy and family defense made by Prof. When reporters call, one of the most difficult questions for me to answer is how the Fourth Amendment applies in “child welfare” cases. Martin Guggenheim.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Maine’s child population is only four percent Hispanic, but more than one-quarter of them will be forced into foster care and 15% of them will lose their parents forever. That state’s child welfare “ombudsman” issues reports indicating she’s never seen a problem with wrongful removal in Maine. It’s not hard to figure out why.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? But things have taken a strange turn in Maine.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In the Virginia Mercury , Valerie L’Herrou, deputy director of the Center for Family Advocacy, urges support for legislation that would bolster the quality of family defense in that state.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Remember all those scare stories about how, because COVID-19 prevented overwhelmingly white disproportionately middle-class “mandated reporters” from constantly having their “eyes” on children who are neither, their parents would unleash upon their own children a “pandemic of child abuse” ? million Black children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 30, 2023

I have written often about how the entire debate over what to do about child welfare has been poisoned by “health terrorism,” the misrepresentation of the true nature and scope of a problem in the name of “raising awareness.” A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting has passed the Texas Legislature.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When Honolulu Civil Beat reached out to NCCPR for comment on the findings of a study, done by the state’s own Court Improvement Project, of what really happens in child welfare court hearings, I said: “What this report tells us is that Hawaii doesn’t really have a court system for ‘child welfare’ cases at all.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

And check out this detailed testimony from several New York City family defense and family advocacy organizations. ? When it concludes, a family may be blacklisted, sometimes for life, on a state “central registry” of alleged child abusers – with no hearing beforehand. And now we have the perfect real-world example.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 6, 2022

She participated in the Child Welfare Title IV-E Program, a federal training program which helped pay for her graduate work. Mike Pierce, Executive Director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, with whom NASW partners on student loan debt advocacy, provided testimony at the hearing.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

No Black history in America or history of children’s advocacy can be complete without the name of Marian Wright Edelman. Her impact on the welfare of all children has been profound. a child’s advocacy and research center. And the history of Child Welfare. Marian Wright Edelman is a name to remember.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

No Black history in America or history of children’s advocacy can be complete without the name of Marian Wright Edelman. Her impact on the welfare of all children has been profound. a child’s advocacy and research center. And the history of Child Welfare. Marian Wright Edelman is a name to remember.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? And here’s part two , which explains why “creme" is to food what “permanency” is to child welfare: a fake substitute. ●

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

International Seminar on Social Welfare in Asia and the Pacific Rim 2023 The Role and Future of Social Welfare Practitioners during a Global Crisis－ COVID-19, war, and the economic instability that followed threatened the lives of people living in countries around the world, shaking the very foundations that allowed people to live their lives.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

In fact, given that the child welfare establishment has no shame, expect the usual op-eds to have token boilerplate statements about racial justice – even as they propose making a profoundly racist family policing system even bigger and more powerful. The problem of child abuse is serious and real, but the solutions have been phony.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 13, 2023

Judy Chu (D-CA-28) who worked on the legislation; and Gerry Glynn, Chief Legal Officer for Embrace Families, a state-designated lead agency for child welfare services in several counties in Florida. We will also hear from Duane Price, a young man with experience in foster care whose life was enhanced by getting a car.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Top stories include: Human Rights Advocacy: Wave of LGBTQIA+ Bills Underscores Vital Role for Social Workers. Schools of Social Work: University of North Dakota – Fighting for Native American Child Welfare. In case you missed it, here are some of the features in the latest issue of Social Work Advocates.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 29, 2022

He says he plans to move the commission towards being more involved legislatively by partnering with Michigan Community Action , an advocacy association. I first met Justin years ago when he attended CRISP’s Student Advocacy Day and former Michigan School of Social Work dean Lynn Videka told me he is someone to connect with.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

In fact, given that the child welfare establishment has no shame, expect the usual op-eds to have token boilerplate statements about racial justice – even as they propose making a profoundly racist family policing system even bigger and more powerful. The problem of child abuse is serious and real, but the solutions have been phony.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Instead of making the dreadful Texas "child welfare" system better, "Children's Rights" and "A Better Childhood" set off what amounts to a giant game of whack-a-mole. The one thing the McLawsuits do well is offer thorough, vivid descriptions of how awful “child welfare” systems typically are. Not that this was a surprise.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. Writing in The Imprint , Prof. Appellate courts would intervene. As the lawyers might say, the circuits are split.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

This user-friendly resource can assist in developing organizational responses to policy issues, conducting policy analysis, and working in advocacy coalitions. Chapters examine distinct content areas, such as child welfare, aging, the climate crisis, and forced migration. We are all part of the economy. Currently, about 5.4

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 14, 2022

Some of the things we have learned: Education is the best defense against child maltreatment; knowing the causes, knowing the symptoms; what part each of us can play to stop it. We’ve identified flaws in our child welfare system, and Shelter has been leading advocacy for making systemic changes.

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Social Work Bubble

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This can also help clients see where they can use their voice, practice communication and boundaries, and embrace self determination and advocacy. This can include work, school, child welfare, court involvement, extracurricular activities, faith communities, volunteering, peer support, groups, and everything in between.

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Social Work Bubble

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This can also help clients see where they can use their voice, practice communication and boundaries, and embrace self determination and advocacy. This can include work, school, child welfare, court involvement, extracurricular activities, faith communities, volunteering, peer support, groups, and everything in between.

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Social Work Bubble

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This can also help clients see where they can use their voice, practice communication and boundaries, and embrace self determination and advocacy. This can include work, school, child welfare, court involvement, extracurricular activities, faith communities, volunteering, peer support, groups, and everything in between.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

But I should explain at the top why this commentary is on a blog about the “child welfare” system. AFA’s members include some of the most strident supporters of tearing apart more families and some of those deepest in denial about racism in child welfare. She also condemned the Indian Child Welfare Act.

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Michigan Girl's Café

MARCH 15, 2019

SAGE Guide to Social Work Careers: Your Journey to Advocacy (2019) by Melissa Bird, PhD is a career book about macro social work practice. Rather, it provides guidance for social work students whose dreams and aspirations are leading them toward a career in social justice and advocacy work.

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