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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University of Connecticut

MARCH 12, 2024

Mathematica and Innovations Institute have partnered to advance policymakers’ understanding of how Medicaid and child welfare agencies ensure youth in the child welfare system receive access to health care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The fundamental fact of American “child welfare” is that if you’re not white and affluent the system will discriminate against you. That’s not unique to “child welfare” of course, but the field seems to be “in denial” about it to an extraordinary degree.) The phrase, of course, is “ best interests of the child.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2022

The former Times reporter and still their go-to guy for child welfare stories continues to soft-peddle racial bias. He’s a former Los Angeles Times reporter and current Times contributor via his current job with the University of California, Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program. Questions were screened in advance.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Watch the bodycam footage – but don’t watch it quite yet, since it might prompt you to jump to a conclusion that some of America’s leading child welfare “scholars” want you to know couldn’t possibly correct. Peoples, ( OK, you can look now) you might be tempted to conclude that there is racial bias in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 12, 2023

See also: The review in The New Yorker The review in Publisher’s Weekly Asgarian’s interview with the Los Angeles Times And after that, you can sign up for Asgarian’s April 6 book talk with the upEND Movement at the University of Houston (it’s both in person and livestreamed).

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

But, thanks in part to Sarah Font of the Penn State University “Child Maltreatment Solutions Network” (or, as it should be called the Penn State University Penance Institute ) , I have a new theory. And adoption isn’t always the happily-ever-after that it’s often claimed to be.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

Alexander Rubin , LCSW, is a clinical assistant professor based in field education at the University at Buffalo School of School of Social Work. Michael Lynch , LMSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. Todd Sage , Ph.D., Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anna Arons of New York University School of Law, in which she summarized her landmark study “An Unintended Abolition.” The focus was New York City, but it’s just as applicable anywhere else in America – indeed, in most places the harm done by family policing is even greater and even more widespread.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

There is a graphic making the rounds in child welfare that’s gotten a fair amount of attention lately. The graphic tracks the rate at which caseworkers “substantiated” various forms of child abuse and neglect allegations from 1990 to 2018. David Finkelhor and his colleagues at the University of New Hampshire.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Get Involved (Advocate) Child Abuse Prevention Month Digital Advocacy Day 2024 [link] Trainings and Resources Social Workers Out-Front on the Harms of Corporal Punishment [link] NASW Social Work Talks Podcast Supporting Families to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect EP84: Supporting Families To Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect (socialworkers.org) Shielding (..)

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system. About Emporia State University.

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Doin' The Work

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Join the mailing list Support the podcast Download transcript In this episode, I talk with Ronnita Waters, who is the Program Operations Administrator at the Center for Family and Child Enrichment, Inc. in Miami, Florida. in Miami, Florida.

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Michigan Social Work

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Lee’s research focuses on parenting, child development, child maltreatment prevention and fatherhood. She co-led the Michigan Child Welfare Inter-University Consortium to bring together over 18 schools of social work to provide access to child welfare education and training for students across the state.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Under the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, states are supposed to make “active efforts” to keep families together, a higher standard than the “reasonable efforts” required un federal law (but almost universally ignored ) for other families. More substantive legislation already has been defeated.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism. Yesterday’s post was, in effect, a guest blog. So I reprinted that part, in full.

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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. Robyn Powell of the University of Oklahoma School of Law and Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

About a month ago, I wrote a column for The Imprint calling out several organizations for using a grossly misleading graphic that exaggerates the rate of physical and sexual child abuse. Why are so many in the child welfare establishment afraid not to exaggerate? It is the Graphic That Will Not Die.

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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

JUNE 9, 2023

How many times have you read what journalists covering child welfare call “the fatality series”? Vivek Sankaran, of the University of Michigan School of Law , to blast the longstanding consent decree won as a result of one of those awful McLawsuits brought by the group that calls itself “Children’s Rights.”

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 31, 2022

Dr. Traci LaLiberte, MSW ‘97, Executive Director at Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, Minnesota Child Welfare Training Academy – University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Dr. Catalina Caban-Owen, DSW ‘09, Adjunct Faculty and The University of Connecticut. Outstanding Social Worker Award.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

. ● As Dean of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Alan Detlaff devoted his career to fighting the racism that permeates family policing. What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He Added Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Shanta Trivedi, faculty director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore School of Law, write about the need to repeal the law that did so much to get us into this mess, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. The group’s executive director is Tatiana Rodriguez.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

. ● In September, Princeton University Press will publish Prof. Kelley Fong’s book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services. Canada has a similarly ugly history when it comes to child welfare and Canada’s First Nations. It’s not just books. But KELO-TV reports, South Dakota is not.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

However, critics within the profession have long raised concerns about the lack of attention and resources directed at other routes into social work, particularly university courses. 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.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

It is estimated, for example, that turnover rates for caseworkers in child welfare averaged 30% nationally before the COVID-19 pandemic. LICSW, Behavioral Science faculty at Northeastern University, author, and speaker. Evidence of this exists in the rates of both turnover and burnout throughout social work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Tarek Ismail of the City University of New York School of Law, rebutted them in this column for the New York Daily News. ? But in reality, a large and growing majority of child abuse is simple neglect, which can be greatly ameliorated with the welfare state; and CPS actions are themselves often abusive.

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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 14, 2021

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in child welfare. Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty. Even then, reporters condemned it as a “carnival.” (I

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Roberts discusses her book, and racism in child welfare with Marc Lamont Hill And here with Ali Velshi on MSNBC: ? It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. Velshi refers to Prof.

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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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inSocialWork

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Suggestions for individuals interested in research addressing social justice in the child welfare system are provided. program director at the University of Alabama School of Social Work. from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Smith is associate professor and Ph.D.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Commission on Civil Rights is hosting a series of public briefings to examine the extent to which racial disproportionalities and disparities exist in the New York child welfare system and its impact specifically on Black children and families. In Michigan, state judges are all upset over a “placement crisis” in child welfare.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Alison Laurio The NASW New Hampshire chapter’s May 4 symposium titled Getting to the Root: Dismantling Racism in Family Separation Systems was presented in partnership with the University of New Hampshire’s social work department, which provided some funding, said Lynn Stanley, NASW-New Hampshire’s executive director.

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