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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 5, 2024
The Complaint alleges that the two largest counties in Minnesota, Hennepin and Ramsey, engage in systematic, rampant, racially biased needless investigation and surveillance of families and needless removal of children. For example, in Minnesota Black children are twice as likely to be thrown into foster care as white children.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” And what will these groups do with the $20 million?
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Martin Guggenheim calls “ACS’s widespread practice of engaging in lawless home invasions that terrorize parents and children.” In The Grio, Shereen White, director of advocacy and policy at Children’s Rights, and Prof. As the story explains: Rodriguez’s passion for reforming DCF stems from her own experience in foster care.
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
● We begin with this from The New York Times : A sweeping class-action lawsuit filed against New York City on Tuesday argues that the agency that investigates child abuse and neglect routinely engages in unconstitutional practices that traumatize the families it is charged with protecting. The child never needed to be taken.
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. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.
Beyond Advocacy
APRIL 13, 2022
We cancelled Student Advocacy Day scheduled for the next day as the House and Senate would go into hiatus until the Covid-19 pandemic abated. Cortez Carey, the recently hired Executive Director of the Foster Youth Caucus, was the evening’s spokesperson, a job he shared with Zahra Marin, NFYI’s National Policy and Organizing Director.
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