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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 20, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As Dean of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Alan Detlaff devoted his career to fighting the racism that permeates family policing. One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. And KING5 continued to cover the story diligently. Added Prof.

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Our annual call to end child welfare’s public celebration of family executions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience.

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The horrifying ubiquity of the family police

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

That’s just one of the findings in the new study we highlighted in yesterday's post to this Blog (a study I first read about on the excellent blog written by Robert Latham, Associate Director of the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act. Yes, second highest.

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News Items – January 12, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Morgan State University Professor Anthony Estreet named CEO of the National Association of Social Workers. Morgan State University (MSU) professor Anthony Estreet, Ph.D , has been selected to step into the role of chief executive officer for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). News Items – January 12, 2023. Scary Mommy.

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Our annual reminder: End "child welfare"’s public celebration of family executions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience.

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End child welfare’s public celebration of family executions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience.

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center conference: The case against CASA

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.