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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) Even the lip service paid to prevention doesn’t say what kind of prevention she has in mind. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● Tearing apart families because of foster-care panic is common; admitting that’s why you’re doing it is not. But this story from WitnessLA includes the case of a Los Angeles mother who was investigated by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but initially allowed to keep her children. That needs to stop."