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. Research shows the trauma of removal in such situations is worse than any trauma that may be caused by witnessing domestic violence.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

It was followed by a systematic campaign of forced adoption into white homes, spearheaded by, among others, the Child Welfare League of America. But that is exactly what the child welfare “ombudsman” is doing in Maine. I have a blog post documenting in detail how Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

Canada has a similarly ugly history when it comes to child welfare and Canada’s First Nations. In San Diego, Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother not because she abused them, but because they witnessed domestic violence. . ● It’s not just books. But KELO-TV reports, South Dakota is not.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 14, 2024

Instead of a way of targeting horrendous cases of abuse, mandatory reporting metastasized into the foundation of a giant child welfare surveillance state, with disastrous consequences. Among those who suffer most: Children of domestic violence victims. That has made all children less safe.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Like the psychiatrist who implied that Mom was to blame for being a victim of domestic violence. (He All of the children were taken away. Two of them were placed with the abusive father. And there is so much more: ? He didn’t literally say “she was asking for it” but he came awfully close.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Dorothy Roberts’ definitive dissection of racism in family policing: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Some might say the novel depicts a dystopian future child welfare surveillance state. We start with three important books: ● First, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Haaland, the case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act is scheduled to begin TODAY (Nov. Another post discusses two stories about “shortages” in Massachusetts “child welfare.” ? Oral argument before the Supreme Court in Brackeen v. 9) at 10:00 am ET. You can listen to the arguments live here. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interesting things can happen when what used to be a garden party for the “child welfare” establishment starts inviting in some skunks. The Associated Press reports that the document may have been influenced in part by concerns over the use of predictive analytics in child welfare – particularly the algorithm in Allegheny County, Pa.,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Their deaths were among a string of fatalities involving children who were the subject of warnings to child welfare authorities or the police in New York City. That’s implied when the Times regurgitates the Big Lie of American child welfare: the claim that keeping children safe and families together are at odds.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The latest to debunk this myth is the ultimate medical and child welfare establishment source: JAMA Pediatrics. From the story: “For the families that we work with, it’s constantly living in a state of fear,” says [Teresa Nord of the Indian Child Welfare Act Law Center]. Although Minnesota is worst, it’s far from alone.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I have written before about how mandatory child abuse reporting laws backfire. They overload child welfare systems – or as they should be called, “family policing systems” -- with false reports and cases in which poverty is confused with neglect , stealing time from finding the few children in real danger.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Imprint also has a story on that new lawsuit that attempts to stop the family police agency in New York City from harassing domestic violence survivors and their families. . ● The Imprint previews the forthcoming release of a federal report “on the devastation caused by U.S.-backed backed Indian boarding schools. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. At long last, it appears America’s racial justice reckoning might be starting to reach child welfare. ? We begin this week not just with one story but with an entire magazine.

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Social Workers Speak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

NASW data on the number of minorities holding social work licensure was cited in a Detroit Metro Times article on victimization of people seeking help at a domestic violence shelter in Washtenaw County. The article and news spot reached about 1 million potential readers. The article reached about 828,000 potential readers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Last week, we highlighted a story from The Boston Globe about how the Massachusetts family police agency persecutes survivors of domestic violence. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on what happened next. They do it even though the damage to children from needless removal is compounded when they are taken in these circumstances.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Using an intersectionality framework, the authors bring together previously fragmented research into this population and explain through case studies the topics particularly relevant to South Asians, including domestic violence, mental health, parenting, gender and sexual orientation, workplace barriers, and aging.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Back in Massachusetts, consider another group family police love to persecute – survivors of domestic violence. And as you read the cases cited by Cleveland.com consider: Why were these cases ever a family police agency’s business in the first place? Check out the story from The Boston Globe.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Shanta Trivedi explores the harm done to some of the children hurt most by “mandatory reporting” laws – children whose mothers are, themselves, survivors of domestic violence. ● In the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law , Prof.

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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. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

These stories appeared just in March and April of 2023: ● In San Diego , KNSD-TV reports , A San Diego mother filed a $10 million wrongful death claim against the county last month, saying Child Welfare Services failed her 11-year-old biological daughter, Aarabella McCormack, who died in the hospital last August.

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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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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Q: Why did you decide to become a social worker and work in the child welfare arena? A child welfare social worker meets with her clients. Williams: As a child, outside of my mother and aunt, I did not have a lot of guidance and stability from adults to teach me how to carry myself in a mature and respectful manner.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

My personal experiences, from working with substance abuse support groups to volunteering in child welfare and domestic violence programs, have deepened my understanding of the vital role social workers play in our society.

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Social Work Synergy

APRIL 15, 2020

They work in child welfare agencies where the work is so sensitive that they avoid talking about it. Before I became a social work professor, I did casework in hospitals, child welfare agencies, crisis hotlines, and in the Veteran’s Administration. Another student sends me an apologetic email.

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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.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2023 America’s massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. That’s why we’ve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove” anything.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Social Work Quotes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

People were asked things like whether, as a child, they had witnessed domestic violence, whether they felt no one in their family made them feel important or special or whether they “didn’t have enough to eat, had to wear dirty clothes, and had no one to protect you.” ACEs have become quite the fad.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

APRIL 29, 2022

Child Protective Services in different states will sometimes amend this definition, so if you’re reading about child abuse as defined by local laws, “physical neglect” may include things like: Improper supervision, . Exposing a child to domestic violence or substance abuse, or . Child Welfare Information Gateway.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Far more often, we’re talking about parents whose poverty is confused with neglect , or parents whose only crime was to be survivors of domestic violence. ? Except of course, in most cases, that’s not true. The revelations in the Sun-Sentinel story don’t end there.

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Social Workers Speak

JUNE 22, 2023

Jennifer Genovese is a member of NASW-NYS: 5 Lesser-Known Warning Signs of an Abusive Relationship Everyday Health In fact, emotional abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse, harassment, and stalking all fall under the umbrella of domestic violence, says Jennifer C. She agrees with Schroeder.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This morning, I gave a presentation with the above title At the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Here is the text of that presentation Have you heard? CAPTA creates the modern framework for the current child welfare surveillance state. So send money.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

There’s a story, albeit buried toward the end, about children torn from their mother just because the mother was a victim of domestic violence. But all the while, Gualtieri’s office continues to shovel kids into those very conditions by tearing apart families at one of the highest rates in the state. Where have I heard that before? ?

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