NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 3, 2023
It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy. . ● There is no opportunity for any family to opt-out or deny the use of their personal data.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 17, 2022
For more than half of all Black children, a child abuse investigation will be part of their childhoods. I also expressed the hope that we would see more stories about such families and more self-reflection within the system and in journalism. So far, it’s not looking good. I’m sure Davis went into this work for all the right reasons.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 4, 2022
The end of 2021 brought more outstanding reporting on various dark corners of the “child welfare” system. ? If you tear a child from a parent’s arms, then demand money to give the child back, what’s the right word for the payment? How about TANF as a child welfare slush fund.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2023
● Take a step back, see – and hear – how the family policing system really works in this report from NPR, featuring perspectives from JMAC for Families and NCCPR: ● You know how defenders of computerized racial profiling in family policing (more accurate terms than “predictive analytics” in “child welfare”) defend their biased algorithms by a.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 10, 2023
She’s condemned the Indian Child Welfare Act and called for requiring every parent reapplying for “public benefits” (in other words, poor people) whose children are not otherwise seen by a mandated reporter to produce the child for a child abuse inspection - even when there is no allegation of abuse or neglect.
Social Work Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
A man practices self-care by taking time to relax in nature and listen to music. Self-care is important to social workers and in fact the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics included the importance of self-care when it was updated this year. A child welfare social worker meets with her clients.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 18, 2021
So when child protective services began operating at a whisper of its former self, where others saw danger, these women saw opportunity. “I But in the meantime, the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth has done all sorts of harm to children. Emphasis added] ?
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