NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In The Hill, Dr. Ruchi Fitzgerald, a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s Legislative Advocacy Committee, explains the enormous harm done by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to children of mothers with substance use disorder – by driving those mothers away from help. ?

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Given that, you’d think it would have been big news when the federal government released its annual estimate of child abuse fatalities and found that, in the year ending Sept. 30, 2020 – including the first six months of the pandemic – child abuse deaths actually decreased. Another key factor is the potential for bias.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

During that period, state, local, federal government and neighbors stepped in. And in Illinois, a family is suing after their children were thrown into foster care for more than a year, all because of a false allegation from a doctor who allegedly was retaliating because she felt offended and embarrassed by the father. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. In North Carolina, WBTV produced a series of reports documenting the harm done to children and families by hidden foster care in that state. This year’s story is more evidence that the solution to the problems of journalism is more journalism.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Advocacy takes various forms, including individual, organisational, and systemic levels. Client Advocacy 6. Self-Care 13.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

Over the years, I have realised the many facets of my passion for social work, exploring the intersections of personal experience, advocacy, interdisciplinary collaboration, and lifelong learning. From direct client interaction to policy advocacy, social workers can make an impact at various levels.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The panel’s ruling was then partially reversed by the full Fifth Circuit Court , declaring that while Congress had the authority to set standards for state agencies, parts of the law violated the 10th Amendment, which gives the federal government only those powers enumerated in the Constitution. All other powers belong to the states.

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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. None of us would want a social worker to be able to search our home based on such flimsy evidence provided by an anonymous report.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The Tribune is still pushing the Big Lie of American “child welfare” – the idea that any bill that protects children from being traumatized by the family police and forced into the hellscape of Texas foster care is a “parents’ rights” bill that supposedly comes at the expense of child safety.

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Beyond Advocacy

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The federal government says shelter is affordable if it requires no more than 30 percent of household income, a percentage only about half of the nation’s 44 million renters rent pay. Devoting half of one’s income to rent is not sustainable and leads to housing instability for millions of rent-paying Americans. Too many are denied that.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In other cases, the Post reported, “children’s advocacy centers have tried to reach children in new ways, slipping messages into supply bags or into homework lessons.” This is all coming due to us at some point,” said the head of a trade association for “Children’s Advocacy Centers. Later in 2020 came phase two of the messaging.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 22, 2022

When I received the invite to attend Monday evening’s Capitol Hill dinner celebrating progress on legislation supporting the needs of foster care youth, I was a bit surprised by the nature of the bill. Benefits would be capped at $4,000 per year per individual and would not count against receiving other benefits from the government.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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