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.” Oh, don’t get me wrong. Admittedly, that’s not a lot.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 23, 2023
Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides Who in the world could be against something like that? If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. I know that the advocacy community conflates neglect with poverty," Mossaides said.
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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. That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent.
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Also in New York City, Black Agenda Radio interviews Anne Venhuizen of The Bronx Defenders about their big win against the family police – successfully suing the family police agency for tearing a child from her mother at birth because the mother smoked marijuana. The interview starts at 27:15 in. ● I have a blog post about it.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Fong will be interviewed at the second of these two events sponsored by the City University of New York School of Law. Among those most ardent about pushing the false, racist myth that COVID would lead to a “pandemic of child abuse” were the nation’s so-called “Child Advocacy Centers” and their trade association.
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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