Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 13, 2023

If enacted, the bill would expand state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. We will also hear from Duane Price, a young man with experience in foster care whose life was enhanced by getting a car.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

. ● A member of the Seattle Times editorial board has made a discovery : Turns out, one of the best ways to shrink foster care rolls is neither parent therapy nor drug treatment, but something much more concrete: housing. This solution, to both homelessness and foster care sounds almost ridiculously obvious. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This post is adapted from a virtual presentation I gave last month to the Racial Justice Task Force of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Child and Family Law Division. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in foster care on any given day -- is even worse. Katz did something simple.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.) Mostly that means interference that makes nothing better and sometimes makes things worse, as with their support for what should be called sugar-frosted foster care. That’s why a successful class-action lawsuit, Nicholson v. Scoppetta , curbed the practice in New York.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Combine these two stories with earlier excellent work by the same reporters on family policing agencies diverting some foster youth’s Social Security payments to help run their bureaucracies and you see a pattern, discussed in this NCCPR blog post about foster care as a shakedown scheme.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The study found that when COVID-19 forced the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, to step back and community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up, the trauma of needless investigation and foster care was significantly reduced, with no compromise of safety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

She did it -- three times -- when The New York Times exposed foster care as “the new ‘Jane Crow’.” She wrote: I’m a licensed clinical social worker who spent my career in public child welfare, primarily providing foster care services. All this made “Jane Addams” very upset. there in order to investigate families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Florida’s family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, has, in effect, confirmed the findings of a USA Today Network investigation that found DCF ignored widespread abuse in foster care. And once again, USA Today reporters trace the origins of the problem to the foster-care panic in Florida starting in 2014. (As

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

The new center is just another “counseling” and “parent education” program. They’re putting in monitors to stop the child abuse at Home of the Innocents – abuse exposed in this story from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. No such luck.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The company that makes and sells the particular predictive analytics software that, as the column above documents, failed disastrously, also used to be in charge of foster care in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas County, Florida. That failed disastrously, too.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Would she call the suspicion “justifiable” were she, at this very moment, making sure the house was spotless in case of a surprise inspection from CPS – in between her mandatory “counseling” and “parent education” classes? Would she feel that way were she fighting to get her child out of foster care? Two trips to the E.R.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The essay is called “An abolitionist gets canned for upholding the values of social work.” ● And in CommonWealth Magazine , Michael Dsida, deputy chief counsel of the Children and Family Law Division at the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, writes about what’s really wrong with family policing in that state: Factoring in poverty, (..)

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Social Workers Speak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Will Francis, executive director of NASW-TX, is a guest: [Audio] After A Decade Of Legal Scrutiny, Texas’ Foster Care System Is Still Failing To Keep Kids Safe. Why hasn’t Texas made more progress toward addressing or fixing problems with its foster-care system, even after a decade of legal scrutiny?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Prosecuting attorneys regularly fail to provide discovery until the eve or day of trial, making it difficult, if not impossible, for defense counsel to advise parents about the potential risks and consequences of settlement, or to be prepared to move forward with trial.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Counsellor : They provide counselling and emotional support to individuals and families facing a wide range of challenges, including mental health issues, addiction, and crisis situations. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

That’s what they’ve done with the concept of “primary prevention” – turning it into another excuse to load families down with meaningless “counseling” and “parenting education.” Family policing systems have a way of co-opting and perverting good ideas.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Micro Social Work is direct-practice work in which a social worker meets with individuals, families, and small groups to support their treatment needs and improve their quality of life.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Micro Social Work Micro Social Work is direct-practice work in which a social worker meets with individuals, families, and small groups to support their treatment needs and improve their quality of life.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) Scoppetta , both state and federal courts told New York family police agencies that no, you are not allowed to tear apart families just because a mother is, herself, a victim of domestic violence.

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Brayn Mares is government relations director for NASW-TX: Texas fights federal rule that would outlaw LGBTQ discrimination in state adoptions and foster care. The Texas Tribune. “The client will hopefully be able to identify and cope with the triggers during the therapeutic process and learn coping skills to decrease the anxiety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”) And it encourages the use of “counseling” and “parent education” to deal with the “stress.” That way, the problem is more amenable to the kind of massive state intrusion they’ve favored for years.

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The Vintage Social Worker

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

It was Care Leavers week recently and the media coverage was poor to say the least. There was, of course, the inevitable national coverage of leaving foster care and the happy successes but at a local level, here at least, it was very poor.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That means that if a parent is thinking of asking for help, such as HeadStart child care, emergency housing, domestic violence support, substance abuse counseling, or Applied Behavior Analysis therapy funded by the state, they should be prepared to deal with [the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services]. …

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. Parents who lose their children to foster care, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The premise is that because of the “shortage,” children can’t see their parents while in foster care, and families don’t get the guidance they need to jump through all the hoops they must surmount to prove themselves worthy of getting their children back. The story suggests counseling and pay raises for the workers.

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KVC

JUNE 16, 2022

Counseling can be a tremendous tool for an LGBTQIA+ young person. Returning to outgrown behaviors (for example, thumb-sucking or bedwetting). Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs. Poor school performance or avoiding schoolwork.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

Whether it involves providing counseling, facilitating community programs, or engaging in research and policy development, the multifaceted nature of social work ensures that each day brings new challenges and opportunities to effect meaningful change.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship Fund This scholarship is awarded to a student currently conducting their field placement at the UConn Counseling & Mental Health Services. My passion is to advocate for underserved and monolingual Latinx populations, undocumented individuals, and children involved in the mental health or foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But whatever the reason, after years of marching in lockstep with the Miami Herald – ignoring wrongful removal and sometimes fomenting foster-care panic -- the Tampa Bay Times has discovered that maybe all those children don’t need to be in foster care after all!

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 22, 2022

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. Tyra Moore is the member: Who, What, Why: Tyra Moore on her commitment to mental health care for Black Americans. Penn Today.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

The Child Welfare League of America Faced with demands to stop confusing poverty with neglect, end the misuse and overuse of foster care and purge the system of racial bias, longtime CWLA President Christine James-Brown declares: “The field is ready, hungry for this type of change.” Consider the first of three recent examples.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

But no matter how much they try to hide it, it’s another trade association full of private foster care and “residential treatment” agencies. The actual amount of money states get through CAPTA is tiny – they would save more by defying its odious provisions, thereby reducing needless investigations and foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in foster care. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. As is so common with Therolf’s stories, this implies that holding children in foster care is safe and only returning a child home can place a child “at risk.”

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

I plan to pursue a career in social justice which includes advocating and counseling young girls and women who have experienced injustices and trauma. My goal one day is to travel to different countries to support these women with counseling and proper education, and through this, hopefully, to write a book based on my experiences.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

High-quality defense counsel for all families at risk of being caught in the family police net. ? Real child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ? Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

From the golden age of "health terrorism" at Prevent child Abuse America Yet after decades of health terrorism that inflicted very real terror on millions of children victimized by needless investigations and needless, abusive foster care, Klika refused to apologize.

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