NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
That is false and it's actually dangerous for children because it fosters and perpetuates a culture of ACS using these invasive and distressing and degrading tactics. You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1.
KVC
JANUARY 11, 2024
While foster care can be a crucial safety net for children and families in challenging circumstances, we at KVC know how important it is to help families stay together. Foster care prevention and family preservation services help families remain intact, allowing children to grow and thrive! foster care system.
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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.
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. While researching my book, I interviewed a group of stewards for the caseworkers’ union in Massachusetts. Now let’s flash forward to 1989.
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.
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
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
In Minnesota, where this case takes place, that’s the term they use for a CASA volunteer.) ● For more about ICWA, listen to the Imprint podcast interview with Sandy White Hawk, author of the memoir A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return. ● (And note, in particular, the role of the “volunteer guardian ad litem ” in the case.
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