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“They’re not your children anymore.” Notes on news coverage of a landmark lawsuit

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care. So I reprinted that part, in full.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 27, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● 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. ● And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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PC-Care: In-Home PCIT Intervention for Children

inSocialWork

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. Brandi Hawk , Ph.D. Show Notes. Episode Transcript Download.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 29, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

And finally: two items about family defense: ● The Imprint interviews Tehra Coles , the new director of New York’s Center for Family Representation. ● Harvard Law School now has a family defense clinic ! I discuss this in a column for the Brainerd Dispatch. And, what do you know?

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center conference: The case against CASA

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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News Items – July 22, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Susan, in addition to growing up on a farm in Holt County and supporting the Eckers’ operation, is a licensed clinical social worker and practices mental health counseling. Lisa Savage, a licensed clinical social worker and founder of the Center for Child Development , said they could also become aggressive. PsychCentral. Penn Today.