NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Now The Imprint reports on how the same agency used the same tactics to undermine legislation to replace anonymous child abuse reporting with confidential reporting. 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. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 30, 2023

A 12-year-old Native Alaskan girl in foster care says she wants to commit suicide. But this time a judge was so outraged that he refused to let the agency hide its incompetence behind confidentiality. I have a blog post about it. --A As the Anchorage Daily News reports that is exactly what Alaska’s family police agency did.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

The bill also curbs the abuse of "hidden foster care" - a practice Texas uses at what may be the highest rate in the country. Also in Texas: ● The governor signed the law described here , which partially replaces anonymous child abuse reporting with confidential reporting. That’s a full Miranda.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

KDVR-TV reports on a bill that would replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. ● . ● Another key problem with child abuse reporting: allowing people to report with total anonymity. That, too, is under scrutiny in Colorado.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

The referral will do no good, of course, because, though false reports are illegal in Texas, anyone can evade the law by making the call anonymously, something that won’t change until anonymous reporting is replaced with confidential reporting. This case has significant implications well beyond Pittsburgh.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

In the Albany Times Union , Madelyn Freundlich, policy research consultant for the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York writes in support of legislation that would replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

APRIL 25, 2022

In this case of baby courts, a foster parent will assume temporary custody, but the mother is expected to visit her baby every day, and her progress is closely monitored and encouraged by the judge. Answer these ten confidential questions developed with the CDC and understand your warning signs. Do you know your ACE score?

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Confidentiality: Maintaining strict confidentiality is essential. They keep their promises and follow through on commitments.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Even these two excellent stories leave two key questions unanswered - as almost always happens when reporters write about family policing in New York Brooklyn Defender Services has filed a lawsuit against the New York City family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, on behalf of a family that has been subjected to repeated, traumatic (..)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. WFTS-TV’s story includes comment from NCCPR. ● Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

JULY 15, 2022

Foster care and attachment disorders. When we remove a baby from their mother, they are most likely going into some version of foster care. Bonding is also a two-way street; a foster parent isn’t likely to bond with a baby with the same intensity as the baby’s mother. Relatives and the cycle of trauma.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

AUGUST 14, 2022

Ironically, the behavior that Krystal’s mother cited as most intolerable, that she used to justify placing her into foster care, was dabbling with marijuana. . Krystal’s three children are in foster care. Answer these ten confidential questions developed with the CDC and understand your warning signs.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) Two months later he was dead.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

So the only real answer is to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting – as Texas has done , though too late to prevent a tragedy. --All All the caller – whoever it was – had to say to trigger an investigation was that the woman smoked marijuana in front of her child – even though marijuana is legal in New Jersey.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The Tribune is still pushing the Big Lie of American “child welfare” – the idea that any bill that protects children from being traumatized by the family police and forced into the hellscape of Texas foster care is a “parents’ rights” bill that supposedly comes at the expense of child safety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Tennessee Legislature is considering an important change for the better in child welfare law: Replacing anonymous reporting to the state’s child abuse hotline with confidential reporting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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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