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. She told NPR: So you have a number of problems.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

But I should explain at the top why this commentary is on a blog about the “child welfare” system. AFA’s members include some of the most strident supporters of tearing apart more families and some of those deepest in denial about racism in child welfare. She also condemned the Indian Child Welfare Act.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit. This would be an overreach in the roles and responsibilities of a government agency.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Yesterday, in a post about “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work, I noted that Alan Detlaff of the University of Houston, who has dedicated his career to fighting racism in family policing (a more accurate term than “child welfare”) had been ousted as the Dean of the university’s Graduate College of Social Work.

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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. Somehow, the contract to write a so-called “independent ethics review” of the algorithm is given to another “scholar” who also insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? And always: New York City has one of the least awful family policing systems in America.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Even though we had fewer calls, the right calls were coming in and we got to the children who needed us,” the state’s Deputy Director of Child Welfare Practice and Programing, Lacey Andresen, told The Oregonian. Indeed, Oregon’s experience is one more debunking of the whole racially-biased “pandemic of child abuse” myth.

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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. Note that often these programs have the full support of state or local child welfare agencies.

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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). They urged the Supreme Court to “uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act’s constitutionality in all respects.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America.

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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. The topic is “anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.”

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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. The document is the latest to be released in Maine in the wake of what newspapers love to call a “spate” of child abuse deaths.

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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. In other words, what will be the ultimate outcome for the child?

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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.” There are many such groups. Oh, don’t get me wrong.

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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. And in the 1980s the mainstream child welfare establishment actively promoted satanic panic.

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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. No one should be required to “be nice to people who do despicable things.”

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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. We wouldn’t even allow a slight deviation from the rules. Lawyers would scream.

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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. Connecticut is a case in point.

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National Casa Gal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 is a federal law that recognizes tribal sovereignty and governs jurisdiction over the removal of Native American (Indian) children from their families.

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Famcare

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the United States, there are around 328,120 child welfare employees. However, given the rising number of cases of child abuse and neglect, as well as the demanding nature of the job, it's reasonable to state that there is a severe shortage of child and family social workers in the United States.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun. Not a lot of money either, since we know that remarkably small amounts of cash are enough to significantly reduce what family police agencies call “neglect.”

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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.) The phrase, of course, is “ best interests of the child.”

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Children and the Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The child welfare system and foster care were initially implemented as tools to help provide assistance to dependent children while the biological parents were temporarily unable to do so either because of neglect or abuse in the home. At face value, this purpose seems commendable.

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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. When we do that, we will have made huge strides toward making the child welfare system fair for all.

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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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National Casa Gal

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The post Supreme Court of the United States hears Indian Child Welfare Act case appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children. A Supreme Court ruling on the case is expected by the end of June 2023. .

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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. Perhaps Therolf fears that people are finally taking seriously the existence of systemic racial bias in child welfare. Questions were screened in advance. As usual it's because of Garrett Therolf.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Even the head of New York City’s family policing agency (a more accurate term than child welfare agency) has confirmed that the fearmongers were wrong. Out of 14 child welfare stories summarized in an email we received yesterday (Aug. 16) two promoted the myth about COVID and child abuse. Yet the myth won’t die.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Her new “report” on “permanency” for the American Enterprise Institute, home of Charles Murray , is so full of false premises and false promises that perhaps “permanency” is to child welfare what “creme” is to food. And adoption isn’t always the happily-ever-after that it’s often claimed to be.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I single these stories out not because they are exceptionally awful - there’s far worse out there - but precisely because they are so typical of the journalism of child welfare. One study after another has found that even small amounts of cash significantly reduce what child welfare systems label as “neglect.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Watch the bodycam footage – but don’t watch it quite yet, since it might prompt you to jump to a conclusion that some of America’s leading child welfare “scholars” want you to know couldn’t possibly correct. Peoples, ( OK, you can look now) you might be tempted to conclude that there is racial bias in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 12, 2023

You probably remember the story: White adoptive parents of six black children drive themselves and the children off a cliff, killing them all. That may be all you remember, and perhaps wondering what would drive such a noble couple to such despair. After all, they rescued these children from their terrible parents, didn’t they?

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Children and the Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to the data collected from Kids Data in 2018, for every 1,000 Black child 46.4 will […] The post Through the lens of the US Child Welfare System: Disproportionate treatment of Black children Part 2 first appeared on Children and the Law Blog.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services. The next subsidiary is KVC Kansas which provides child welfare and mental health services.

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National Casa Gal

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The post National Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Grants aim to improve support to children impacted by the child welfare system – spotlight on CASA for Children of DC appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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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. Sugarman was brought by the NY Civil Liberties Union, which sues NY City for using racial discrimination in their child welfare system processes and […].

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. She has repeatedly misused her power and privilege. In a report on Harmony’s case, Mossaides exercises that judgment ruthlessly.

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