NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2023
The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.)
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
To read the account on CR’s website you’d think their suit turned a dreadful, failing “child welfare” system into a shining success story. But just four years later, the Tennessee Department of Child Services, their family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) has opened a bunch of new ones.
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Shelter, Inc
OCTOBER 13, 2022
OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH. Ninety percent of youth in the child welfare system report having been exposed to at least one traumatic event in their life. Each traumatic event can cause invisible wounds that can change how a child develops. Many have experienced more.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
Was that the intent of this poll done by Harris for a group calling itself the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) as part of its new child welfare initiative? There is no mention of seeking to recapture the spirit of the Indian Child Welfare Act. I don’t know. But some of the questions sure sound like push polling.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Scoppetta , both state and federal courts told New York family police agencies that no, you are not allowed to tear apart families just because a mother is, herself, a victim of domestic violence. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) The practice was curbed, but never fully stopped.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Dorothy Roberts , who explains: “A promising trend that this lawsuit is part of is recognizing that enforcing parents’ constitutional rights is critical to an approach to child welfare that truly benefits children. Scoppetta , which curbed the practice of taking children from survivors of domestic violence prove that.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2021
The real story of COVID-19 and “child welfare” was not a “pandemic of child abuse” -- that never happened. The state’s child welfare “ombuds” investigated and found that KING got it right. Speaking of dangerous delusions about adoption, check out Prof. Shanta Trivedi’s analysis, in Ms. , NYN Media has that story.
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