Child Welfare Related Topics 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2022
It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. The mother of a second young child is suing, alleging abuse at the same institution.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 2, 2022
It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. It’s why all those plans for kinder, gentler family policing won’t do much good – and might even backfire.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 2, 2023
Or the mothers, so desperate to be loved by anyone take in Character Disordered Men who are only interested in sexually abusing her child. The study in question, from 1998, says that if a child experiences enough of them, it can cause serious health problems.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
Then, on May 21, the caller said, the mother was back allegedly with one of her two children, outside the authority’s offices for eight hours and it was “unknown” if the child was fed during that time. Had mom had her child with her, would she have been expected to yell “Hey, look everyone!
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2021
The same scholar who claims predictive analytics in child welfare isn’t biased also signs on to an extremist agenda calling for an automatic, mandatory extra level of family police surveillance of thousands of impoverished families.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Now, let’s see if Senator Soundbite tries to undermine the progress The Oregonian has a story about the decline in foster care numbers in that state – and how it’s not due to more child abuse supposedly being hidden due to COVID lockdowns.
Famcare
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
In child and family services, the mission no longer ends at removing an endangered child from a dysfunctional household but now extends to how a Child Welfare Agency might help the child grow into a productive member of society.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2022
The life’s work of Barth and other well-meaning social workers who have done so much to build, maintain and expand the child welfare surveillance state has come under increasing scrutiny for the enormous harm it’s done to children.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Key child safety measures show significant improvement A Black Families Matter rally in New York City in 2020. There are two principal ways to measure child safety and the performance of family policing agencies.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
At last: A group involved in oversight of Maine child welfare that shows a real understanding of the problems. The Maine Child Welfare Advisory Panel (MCWAP) Citizen Review Panel has produced a report with six recommendations. There's some good stuff in this report.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
And, concerning solutions: So child welfare experts that I've spoken to have pointed to a few changes. Other states are as bad or worse, but, as it happens, the history of “child welfare” failure in Massachusetts is particularly well-documented.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
they write as if they believe any parent whose child "had to be" taken away must be sick, sick sick! Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The big national takeaway is that these data – once again – refute the racist myth about COVID-19 and “child welfare.” In 2021 Missouri tore apart families at nearly double the national average and the 10th highest rate in the country – even when rates of child poverty are factored in.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in child welfare. Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
A “scholar” who insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare writes a “predictive analytics” algorithm for the State of California. One of those algorithms attempts to stamp an invisible “scarlet number” risk score on every child at birth. KEY POINTS ?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The seeds of Q-Anon and Pizzagate were planted at the McMartin preschool, then grown and nurtured by a lot of “professionals” in "child welfare" who should have known better. Actually, for the group that calls itself Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA), the behavior has never stopped.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. But one reason is the state’s child welfare “ombudsman,” Christine Alberi.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2021
How do we solve child neglect, how do we keep children safe in this country? ACS Administration for Children's Services Anna Arons child abuse child welfare family preservation foster care unintended abolition
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Attention child welfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 22, 2022
They even acknowledged their own role in “contributing to racism in the legal field” in general and “within the child welfare legal field in particular…” Offhand, I can’t think of an organization that says “establishment” more than the American Bar Association.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 19, 2022
Multiple organizations in Maine – but with the lead organizations dominated by private “providers” have put out a document they’re calling “A Framework for Child Welfare Reform” in that state. Reducing what we call child abuse is a problem that does not require any of those documents.
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.”
Famcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
In the United States, there are around 328,120 child welfare employees. But, in the meanwhile, here's how child welfare agencies might better manage greater caseloads. Child Welfare human services software Family and Child Welfare
Beyond Advocacy
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2021
The fundamental fact of American “child welfare” is that if you’re not white and affluent the system will discriminate against you. That’s not unique to “child welfare” of course, but the field seems to be “in denial” about it to an extraordinary degree.)
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 17, 2022
It’s about how Greg Abbott’s war against transgender children is catching in the “child protective services” net people who never thought they’d be there – white, affluent families. For more than half of all Black children, a child abuse investigation will be part of their childhoods.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2022
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS FOSTER CHILD AND/OR THIS FOSTER PARENT? VERNON, WASHINGTON STATE POLICE AT (360) 428-3211 It was more than a week before anyone realized the foster child on the left was missing. She claimed the younger child already had been returned.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 23, 2022
The former Times reporter and still their go-to guy for child welfare stories continues to soft-peddle racial bias. LA Weekly noted how the Times quietly backed off claims in a Therolf story about child abuse deaths. ?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 17, 2021
11, 2021 R emember how some of America’s latter-day child savers told us we’ve got to get the kids back in school as soon as possible to protect them from a “pandemic of child abuse” at the hands of their own parents? 16) two promoted the myth about COVID and child abuse.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 27, 2022
Massachusetts "Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides Consider the relative positions and power of two women in Massachusetts. Crystal Sorey is the mother of Harmony Montgomery, a child who was taken from her because of her illness – drug use - and ultimately placed with her father.
Shelter, Inc
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. Yet, study after study show child abuse and neglect is lower in Black families than white families.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
But when it comes to what happens to those investigated for "child neglect" they can be worlds apart. She was being tailed by a local busybody who was apparently horrified by the sight of a child getting some exercise in the neighborhood, and then walking into her own home – by herself!!!
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 1, 2021
As you may recall, that study estimated that in two of America’s 20 largest counties, Los Angeles and Maricopa (metropolitan Phoenix), more than 70 percent of Black children would be forced to endure the trauma of a child abuse investigation before they turn 18.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Monday: Context for the new study : The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? s Child Welfare System Racist?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
He wrote: “Child protection is perhaps the only field where some child deaths are assumed to be inevitable, no matter how hard we work to stop them.” I know of no fire chief who has claimed it’s possible to prevent any child from ever dying in a fire. I know of no police chief who says we can ensure that no child ever will be shot to death on the street. I know of no doctor who promises that no child ever will die of cancer.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents.
KVC
JULY 20, 2021
These services strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you!
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 4, 2022
In the beginning, the builders of what would become a system of massive intrusion into families , and, ultimately, the separation of millions of children from their parents, all in the name of “child welfare,” insisted that poverty had nothing at all to do with what they labeled “child abuse” and “child neglect.” Child abuse crosses class lines” was the mantra in the 1970s and 1980s.
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