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
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. Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality. Except it hasn’t.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else. 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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 17, 2022
Did the ABA apologize for its own role in supporting racially biased “child welfare” laws and initiatives? A key pillar of the child welfare surveillance state is Central Registries of Rumor and Innuendo kept by almost every state (they don’t use that name, of course, but that’s what they are). But they came damn close.
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
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
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.
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