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Doin' The Work
MARCH 14, 2022
In this episode, I talk with Joyce McMillan and Victoria about the family policing system, also known as the child welfare system. In this episode, I talk with Joyce McMillan and Victoria about the family policing system, also known as the child welfare system.
Doin' The Work
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Join the mailing list Support the podcast Download transcript In this episode, I talk with Ronnita Waters, who is the Program Operations Administrator at the Center for Family and Child Enrichment, Inc. We discuss the child welfare system, foster care, family preservation, and various interventions that take place for children and families in this complex system. Ronnita takes us through an example of what happens when child abuse is reported.
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Doin' The Work
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
We discuss the disproportionate numbers of Black and Brown children, as well as children in poverty, who are removed from their parents, and how racism and systemic oppression set the framework of many child welfare policies and practices. She also talks about how she got into this work, practicing self-care, and shares a message for students interested in working in the child welfare system. Episode 21. Guest: Asia Piña, MSW. Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. .
Doin' The Work
AUGUST 3, 2020
We discuss accountability and safety, as well as links to child welfare and social work. We discuss accountability and safety, as well as links to child welfare and social work. Episode 32. Guest: K Agbebiyi, MSW. Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. . www.dointhework.com. Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify. Follow on Twitter & Instagram , Like on Facebook. Join the mailing list. Support the podcast. Download transcript.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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
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 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
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
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
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.
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 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
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
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.
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
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.”
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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!!!
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
AUGUST 1, 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
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
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 28, 2022
1: Six-year-old Ariel Sellers is taken from her home by Child Welfare Services. Ariel Sellers child abuse child welfare family preservation foster care grab-and-go Hawaii Hawaii CWS Isabella KaluaLawmakers should take the money earmarked for more personnel and use it to ameliorate the worst aspects of poverty. Case No. Relatives are ready to take Ariel in, but they say CWS ignores them. Instead Ariel is placed with strangers, Isaac and Lehua Kalua.
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
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Then, the same group’s director can turn around and take the inherently racist position that, in his city, where the target population is overwhelmingly nonwhite, everyone who a caseworker even guesses is a child abuser must be guilty!
Children and the Law Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2022
First, looking from a historical view of Black families in the early days of the child welfare system showed signs of prejudice and racial processes and procedures.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 28, 2022
It’s easy to fix a failing child welfare system like the one in New Mexico: just listen to your gut instinct – and do the opposite. That is always the knee-jerk response to child abuse tragedies, whether because lawmakers explicitly demand it or because workers are terrified about what will happen to them if the next high-profile tragedy is on their caseload. child abuse child welfare CYFD family preservation foster care New Mexico
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
There is a graphic making the rounds in child welfare that’s gotten a fair amount of attention lately. The graphic tracks the rate at which caseworkers “substantiated” various forms of child abuse and neglect allegations from 1990 to 2018. In 2020, it turned up in a conference presentation from Prevent Child Abuse America. Chapin Hall child abuse child welfare David Finkelhor family preservation foster care Prevent Child Abuse America
Michigan Social Work
MAY 3, 2022
The Child Welfare Student Association visited the Michigan state capitol on April 25 to mark National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The students listened to inspirational speakers, networked with legislators and took a tour of the capitol building
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