NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In The Grio, Shereen White, director of advocacy and policy at Children’s Rights, and Prof. In Massachusetts, the Boston Globe reports, former foster youth who were harmed when they were torn from their homes protested at the State Capitol. Instead, she said, she was placed with a foster family.

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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? This solution, to both homelessness and foster care sounds almost ridiculously obvious. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. ● As is so often the case, the professor’s comments minimize the harm of one of the worst “adverse childhood experiences” a child can endure – being torn from everyone s/he knows and loves and thrown into foster care. I have a column about it in CalMatters. It has decimated their lives.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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. It’s called National Adoption Day.

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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. As a student at Spelman College in Georgia, she earned a scholarship to study abroad at such notable schools as the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

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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. As a student at Spelman College in Georgia, she earned a scholarship to study abroad at such notable schools as the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 25, 2022

University of Michigan scholars Trina R. Sherraden stated: “Of interest to social workers, the CDA policy gives much larger deposits to foster kids and homeless kids, but also includes all newborns. Each emancipated foster youth will receive $1,000 monthly—no strings attached, guaranteeing the first statewide universal basic income.

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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. Davis from Illinois who I met when I joined the faculty at Howard University School of Social Work in 2002. I was back on Capitol Hill Tuesday, April 5, for the first time in two years.

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 12, 2023

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

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. It’s called National Adoption Day.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

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. It’s called National Adoption Day.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

JUNE 9, 2022

Possible mechanisms for the elevated scores include: The disproportionate involvement of LGBTQI+ kids in foster care , Increased stress in the family relating to the child’s gender, Living in homes with less accepting attitudes, and. Columbia University Student. and “how can we prevent this?”. Check my ACE score. Antony Nguyen.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

But since that’s what AP has chosen to use without context, here’s the context: We’re looking at an increase of 73 (or 34) in a universe of more than 8.5 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan School of Law says the best thing CR could do would be to get out. In January 2016, I described federal judge Janis Jack’s first decision in favor of CR as a guided tour of the hellscape of Texas foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania Law School is quite a piece of work. The school’s Dean, Theodore Ruger, has written a letter urging the University to consider imposing a “major sanction” against the self-proclaimed “race realist.” As The New York Times reports , AFA sent a letter to University of Pennsylvania President M.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The event is being presented in conjunction with the Congressional Social Work Caucus and the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth. The discussion will be moderated by CRISP Legislative Director Dr. Angelique Day, an associate professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work who is a descendant of the Ho Chunk Nation.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My passion is to advocate for underserved and monolingual Latinx populations, undocumented individuals, and children involved in the mental health or foster care system. This scholarship will equip me to serve and give back to my community, and eventually become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

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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.

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Beyond Advocacy

JANUARY 5, 2024

It had been the subject of her dissertation titled In the Best Interest of the Family: The Outcomes of Children in Foster Care with an Incarcerated Parent and the Adverse Implications of the Adoptions and Safe Families Act. Pettus since her days on the Brown School at Washington University in St.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 3, 2024

The research presented by the SSW community comprises a variety of topics, including foster care, LGBTQIA+ youth, substance abuse treatment, mindfulness-based intervention, and gender-affirming care, among many others.

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Social Workers Speak

APRIL 8, 2022

For Will Francis, the executive director of the National Association of Social Workers Texas , the 2017 removal of LGBTQ protections in the Foster Care Bill of Rights was the first domino to fall in a long line of protections for LGBTQ kids. How Texas Became the Most Virulently Anti-Trans State in America. New York Magazine.

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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

APRIL 25, 2023

Congresswoman Bass arrived on the Hill in January 2011 and immediately founded the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth. She was able to recruit several Republican members because she knew the well-being of foster care youth cuts across party lines. The briefing will be held tomorrow, April 26, 2023, at 9:00 a.m.

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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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