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

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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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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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. But there is an agency in New York that could fix that.

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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. There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing. She has repeatedly misused her power and privilege.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

That mean old state government makes us do it! But sheesh, all that whining! Over and over again he offers the same response: It’s not my fault! And yet, Dannhauser ignored the obvious solution. That should make us wonder if he really just wants to keep things as they are.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

With CJMR there’s no way to protect your family from government agencies taking your most basic, and in some cases, most private data, and turning it against you. And, of course, there is nothing to show this actually prevents child abuse. But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun.

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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. Font may not view that as a problem.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

How do we solve child neglect, how do we keep children safe in this country? And so, we are not requiring the government to come in and police them and say this is how you need to raise your children. What accounts for these results? We give families money. We give families money so they can keep their own family safe.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

But the judge disagreed with this request, considering it an infringement on the father’s right to parent his child, and did not wait for New Hampshire to respond. The interstate compact was created primarily to govern cross-border foster care moves. She runs the state’s “Office of the Child Advocate.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

In the decades, indeed in the centuries before passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act, U.S. child welfare” policy toward Native Americans fit that definition. ICWA is often described as the “gold standard” for “child welfare” law and policy. It’s not as if anyone tried to hide it.

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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. You cannot support children by terrorizing their families.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Is Pittsburgh’s “child welfare” predictive analytics algorithm running amok? The Allegheny Family Screening Tool slaps an invisible scarlet number "risk score" on every child whose parents or other caretakers have been accused of neglect. Inquiring minds (at the US Dept. of Justice) want to know!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

● Think you know all about the cases at the heart of the current challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act? The federal government released its annual Child Maltreatment report. The federal government released its annual Child Maltreatment report. The Imprint has a summary.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Roberts’ essay for the Summer issue of Dissent , which begins this way: Imagine if there were an arm of the state that sent government agents to invade Black people’s homes, kept them under intense and indefinite surveillance, regulated their daily lives, and forcibly separated their families, often permanently. See also Prof.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The fast-track social work training scheme has been funded by the government, and championed by a succession of ministers, since its inception in 2013. Sign up with them to train as a social worker here: [link]. Kelly Tolhurst MP (@KellyTolhurst) September 27, 2022.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The system too often spends time and scarce resources on intrusive investigations that often do not result in a child protection plan, serving only to increase the pressure on families in difficulty at a time when extra support would make a difference. Extra £2bn proposed for family support.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Remember all those scare stories about how, because COVID-19 prevented overwhelmingly white disproportionately middle-class “mandated reporters” from constantly having their “eyes” on children who are neither, their parents would unleash upon their own children a “pandemic of child abuse” ? million Black children.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The primary goal of the project is to determine whether the “Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations (BPC)”— a trauma-informed parenting intervention — is effective at promoting child, parent, and family wellbeing among underserved families at-risk for involvement with the child welfare system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Maine’s child population is only four percent Hispanic, but more than one-quarter of them will be forced into foster care and 15% of them will lose their parents forever. That state’s child welfare “ombudsman” issues reports indicating she’s never seen a problem with wrongful removal in Maine. In 2021, there were 1,753.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2022

Abdurahman also moderated this international conference panel, Abolishing the Child Welfare System (and its Algorithms!) The Imprint reports on a United Nations committee in Geneva that heard testimony about the racism that permeates the American child welfare system and asked tough questions of U.S. with panelists Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Here’s what you’ll find in it: PREFATORY MATERIAL Editor’s Note—Growth in Unprecedented Times, Nicolás Quaid Galván Foreword—Strengthened Bonds: Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well Being, Nancy D. The full issue is here. Polikoff & Jane M. Not one of those words came from a birth parent.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Bad as it is for any child to be torn from their home and consigned to the chaos of foster care, it’s worse for LGBTQ children – the very children now targeted by Texas Gov. Even child welfare establishment types, like this professor , are for it. Greg Abbott. NCCPR Board Member Prof. But in some states, that’s not true.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. This one takes on what may be the most dangerous phrase in the family policing lexicon: “best interests of the child.” Much of this loss and pain has been directly fueled by government policy. Added Prof.

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

. ‘Tendency to obscure trends in child poverty’ Nationally, rates of child poverty, defined by children living in households taking in less than 60% of the median income, rose from 17% in 2014 to 23% in 2020 before housing costs were factored in. After housing costs, 31% were in poverty in 2020.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

Dorothy Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of NCCPR’s Board of Directors, just wrote a book called Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. The first, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare was published 20 years ago. She’s right.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

However, it also found that “the lack of information sharing for child welfare or safeguarding contrasted sharply with well-developed information-sharing processes for immigration control purposes”. Immigration law is often prioritised at the expense of the child’s wellbeing’. Related articles.

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Community Care

MARCH 10, 2023

Social work and children’s organisations have united against government proposals that would increase the detention and deportation of children and seemingly leave many unaccompanied young people outside the scope of the children’s social care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

They say Hawaii’s family police agency, known as “Child Welfare Services” (CWS) ignored them. ? Diversion and double-standards But just as in the Hunsicker case, in this latest death the child welfare establishment has been quick to divert attention from its own failings. (Honolulu police dept. But we do know this: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

New data from Pennsylvania confirm: When America’s child welfare establishment fearmongers predicted that COVID would bring on a “pandemic of child abuse” it was just the usual health terrorism. And then came the claim that, well, even if we didn’t see the surge in 2021, we’ll see it in 2022! It didn’t happen.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Among the highlights: In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System , Prof. Unfortunately, she told Boston Public Radio “When you’re in government, the notion of what the general fund is entitled to is read very, very, very expansively.” ● And Lackawanna County, Pa.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

From Josie Pickens and Dean Alan Dettlaff of the upEND movement, in the Houston Chronicle : “Instead of making children safer … ASFA became yet another means for national and state governments to forcibly and permanently remove Black children from their families through a speedy process of terminating parental rights.” ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When Honolulu Civil Beat reached out to NCCPR for comment on the findings of a study, done by the state’s own Court Improvement Project, of what really happens in child welfare court hearings, I said: “What this report tells us is that Hawaii doesn’t really have a court system for ‘child welfare’ cases at all.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare.

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Famcare

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Everyone is turning to technology solutions, from businesses to government agencies and non-profit social services. Non-profit organizations, including child welfare, juvenile justice, and senior services, have all adopted case management software in recent years, particularly software designed specifically for the human services sector.

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