NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1. So the story rightly points out that For decades, class-action lawsuits have been a major vehicle for reform in child welfare systems nationwide.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. She also works with agencies to train staff in Motivational Interviewing. Todd Sage , Ph.D., MSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Twenty years ago, Penn Law Professor (and NCCPR Board Member) Dorothy Roberts changed the landscape of “child welfare” when she literally wrote the book on racial bias in family policing: Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. Roberts’ interview with Boston Review. Check out Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Recent news stories illustrate both the terrible harm Kentucky’s “child welfare” system inflicts upon its most vulnerable children and the root cause. In more than half the “unsubstantiated” cases the children were not even interviewed before the cases were closed and their claims dismissed.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent. The group’s executive director is Tatiana Rodriguez. Instead, she said, she was placed with a foster family.

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Relias

JUNE 22, 2022

When in doubt, remind the parents that these arrangements are in place for the healthy development of the child — the one thing that both co-parenting parties continue to have in common. The post Co-Parenting Building Blocks: Interview With an Expert appeared first on Relias.

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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. isn’t reassuring.

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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.” ? But things have taken a strange turn in Maine.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This is what America's "child welfare" systems call a success story: A family is victimized by a false allegation of child abuse. After they are cleared, they miss one doctor's appointment for their child, so they are accused again. In an interview, in the presence of someone from the program, they praise the program.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And see also The 74’s interview with Darcey Merritt, associate professor of social work at New York University, discussing why CPS should stand for Child Poverty Surveillance. ? Interesting things can happen when what used to be a garden party for the “child welfare” establishment starts inviting in some skunks.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

(The agencies call it “child support” but listen closely at 36:23 in, and you’ll hear Imprint editor John Kelly use the R-word :-)) The interview starts at 16:40 in. Commission on Civil Rights says that state needs more safeguards and transparency for such algorithms.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

am proud to serve on a special committee of the Philadelphia City Council examining the child welfare system in that city. One of our recommendations is to abolish mandatory child abuse reporting – something that would be in line with decades of research showing that mandatory reporting backfires.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

The study found that the children to whom this happened “are overwhelmingly Asian American, Black or Native American, raising questions about the impartiality of states’ child welfare systems and policies.” What’s that got to do with child welfare? The problem is something called “induced demand.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 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

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The previous round-up began by comparing a real-life case to the depiction of a dystopian child welfare surveillance state portrayed in Jessamine Chan’s novel The School for Good Mothers Now, Let Grow has a comprehensive comparison between the novel and the real world of family policing. It is not reassuring. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

But just two days after the Parent Map story was published, KFMB-TV in San Diego reported this story: A Marine Corps pilot and his wife are suing the County of San Diego after Child Welfare Services took their seven-month-old son from their home for more than a month after the boy head-butted his mother as he played after breastfeeding.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

? Marketplace Tech interviews Sally Ho and Garance Burke, authors of the Associated Press expose of the highly-touted child welfare predictive analytics algorithm in use in Allegheny County, Pa. In April, the child welfare establishment spreads a message of health terrorism during child abuse awareness month.

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inSocialWork

JANUARY 19, 2021

In this episode, Lindsay Armendariz and Brandi Hawk discuss Parent-Child Care (PC-Care), a brief intervention designed to respond to the needs of parents, foster parents and children in the child welfare system. Interviewer: Annette Semanchin-Jones, PhD. Lindsay Anne Forte Armendariz, M.S. Brandi Hawk , Ph.D. Show Notes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

ET, Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child, discusses her outstanding book and the intersection of law, journalism and social justice at this event sponsored by the New York University School of Law Forum. ? Rise interviews Rutgers Prof. Attending it will be just what you need to tune up your b.s.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

These are precisely the kinds of young people the Massachusetts “Child Advocate” is trying to silence. In an interview with Salon about her new book, Torn Apart , Prof. Her experience in foster care was far worse. ? I have a blog post about it. ? That is just simply false. ?

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

Here’s one piece: The need to protect the data in our brains – and – an interview with Dr. Nita Farahany about her new book The Fight for Your Brain. ” The future of human rights in the face of rapid technological change is emerging as an important space right now. ” Sounds like science fiction, but it is here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In child welfare, we can’t speak truth to power until we speak truth to CASA. The most sacred cow in American child welfare harms the children it is intended to help. The Imprint has an interview with MJ Jihad who founded MJ Consulting “to be doing whatever it takes to have these children remain within their birth family.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Also in New York City, Black Agenda Radio interviews Anne Venhuizen of The Bronx Defenders about their big win against the family police – successfully suing the family police agency for tearing a child from her mother at birth because the mother smoked marijuana. The interview starts at 27:15 in. ● I have a blog post about it.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. That’s not because they want to hurt children, of course.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else. 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. Lawyers would scream.

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Social Workers Speak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

NASW Director of Public Policy Sarah Butts was interviewed by Fox 26 News in Houston about the need for revamping of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. NASW Michigan Chapter Executive Director Duane Breijak was quoted and featured in a Second Wave Michigan article on a child welfare worker shortage in the state.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fong will be interviewed at the second of these two events sponsored by the City University of New York School of Law. . ● Among those quoted in the story: Kelley Fong, whose new book, Investigating Families has been called by Prof. Martin Guggenheim “the best book of its kind I’ve ever read.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can read news accounts about the lawsuit in The New York Times , New York Daily News , NY1 News (a video interview), Gothamist , Mother Jones , The Imprint , Courthouse News Service, and Reason Ebony Gould, et. If that whets your appetite for more, you can read the entire document here.

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Michigan Girl's Café

MARCH 8, 2019

A highlight of each chapter is the interviews with a professional working in a related job sharing their personal career paths, detail potential for career advancement, and advice for students. There is extensive coverage on the duties and responsibilities of social workers by practice area (child welfare, school, psychiatric, etc.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In back-to-back interviews on public radio’s Here and Now , the head of the agency gives his spin – and then Joyce McMillan of JMAC for Families tells the real story to anchor Deepa Fernandes, who, by the way, has done some excellent reporting of her own on this topic. ● You know, the report the agency tried to suppress?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

.” ● One of the reasons Minnesota has been unable to curb child abuse deaths is because Minnesota tears apart families at one of the highest rates in the nation. And finally: two items about family defense: ● The Imprint interviews Tehra Coles , the new director of New York’s Center for Family Representation. ● And, what do you know?

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Michigan Girl's Café

MARCH 15, 2019

This book contains the following chapters: Follow Your Passion, Not Just a Path Poverty Child Welfare Health Care Disability Mental Health Substance Abuse Aging Criminal Justice Advice for Moving Forward (resume, interview, etc.).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Their “study” methodology guarantees most abuse will be overlooked, and their advisory panel consists of extremists who want to expand the child welfare surveillance state while denying any problem with racial bias. No actual foster youth will be interviewed about her or his own experiences. I don’t think they’ll be fooled.

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