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

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. ● I have a column in The Imprint about why making clergy mandated reporters doesn’t have a prayer of actually curbing child abuse. ●

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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

JANUARY 10, 2023

. ● Here’s the good news, as reported by The Arizona Republic : An Arizona woman who used medicinal cannabis to combat morning sickness during her pregnancy will have her name removed from the state’s child-abuse registry. What’s that got to do with child welfare? The problem is something called “induced demand.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Deadric Williams of the University of Tennessee, showing him during one of his lectures – and one of the slides he uses. The interview starts at 27:15 in. ● We start this week with something a little different. It’s a picture from the Twitter feed of Prof. I have a blog post about it.

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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

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

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The lawsuit was filed by the Family Justice Law Center, the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private firms. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Shanta Trivedi, director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore explains why "The Adoption and Safe Families Act is Not Worth Saving: The Case for Repeal." You can read all the recent commentaries on the harm of ASFA here. You know, the report the agency tried to suppress?

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Social Work Synergy

APRIL 15, 2020

We are proud to have her as a member of our faculty at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. They work in child welfare agencies where the work is so sensitive that they avoid talking about it. The child welfare agency where she works is providing surgical masks to clients, but not to employees.

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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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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. I am excited about the prospect of joining [mention the university/program] and its esteemed MSW program.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Improving College Outcomes for Foster Care Youth In a study published by the Journal of Public Child Welfare, Assistant Professor of Social Work Nate Okpych investigated how a federal law increasing the foster care age limit might affect postsecondary outcomes for foster care youth.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But, particularly when it comes to substance use, some of these courts exist where so much of the child welfare establishment does, at the intersection of ignorance and arrogance. The Imprint’s weekly podcast features a fascinating interview with Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child. ?

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Many journal articles are available through university library databases or on the websites of professional associations such as the Community Care. Then, you should gather information by conducting interviews, reading books or journal articles, and talking to experts in the field.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

In Los Angeles County, WitnessLA begins a multi-part in-depth series on the failure of the child welfare surveillance state with a look at battered mothers afraid to seek help because of the entirely justified fear that the family police might take away their children. That needs to stop."

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Even though the ethics review for that one was co-authored by a faculty colleague of one of the creators of the algorithm, it cautioned that one reason AFST is ethical is that it does not attempt to stamp the scarlet number on every child at birth – something known as “universal-level risk stratification.”

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Building capacity for EBPs in CBH allows people receiving services at these sites to gain access to highly effective forms of treatment, which otherwise may primarily be available to those with expensive private insurance or to those who receive university-centered treatment. Author Bio. Creed, Ph.D. Miller, W.R., Yahne, C.E., Moyers, T.B.,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

In Pennsylvania, lawmakers expanded the pool of who qualifies as a mandated reporter in the wake of the Penn State University child sex abuse scandal. Time for the token quote from a Black person Some reporters at the Globe seem to have a lot of trouble quoting Black people about child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.

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