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Congress Works to Protect Indian Child Welfare Act

Beyond Advocacy

The Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy (CRISP) and the National Foster Youth Initiative (NFYI) will convene a Congressional Briefing tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. The event is being presented in conjunction with the Congressional Social Work Caucus and the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth.

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Pushing back on a child welfare poll full of loaded questions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. Was that the intent of this poll done by Harris for a group calling itself the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) as part of its new child welfare initiative? But there is.

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It’s Not “Just Poverty” – It’s UNjust Poverty

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This morning, I gave a presentation with the above title At the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Here is the text of that presentation Have you heard? Poverty and child “maltreatment” interact in two ways. for a child's well being." Poverty is confused with neglect!