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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending October 24, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● We’ve heard of one form of “ransom” in foster care – parents forced to pay part of the cost of foster care in order to get their kids back. The agency says it’s intended to discourage needless reports. But training is always the cop-out agencies use to avoid real change.

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Profiles in cowardice: Terrified of demagogic politicians, family police agencies in two states prolong the agony of a five-year-old and his mother.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Her son was cared for by his grandmother – until the husband took the child by force and also made his way to the United States. The husband wound up in Massachusetts – and the boy, Ricardo, wound up in foster care – because the father was abusing him too. The National Association of Counsel for Children agrees.

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From Crisis to Connection: Family Strengthening and Prevention Services at KVC

KVC

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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“They’re not your children anymore.” Notes on news coverage of a landmark lawsuit

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism. had written, “I am a bad kid” and “I need to behave at school or Mommy and Daddy will be arrested.” In the story, Ms.

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Pushing back on a child welfare poll full of loaded questions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The poll that wasn’t rigged Back in the 19 th Century, the white racists who stole Native American children and forced them into hideous boarding schools, and tore apart impoverished immigrant families and forced the children onto so-called “orphan trains” grandly called themselves “child savers.”

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Drivers Act Will Open Doors for Foster Youth

Beyond Advocacy

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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Child welfare lessons from New York City’s “unintended abolition”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Anna Arons of New York University School of Law, in which she summarized her landmark study “An Unintended Abolition.” What COVID changed – and the dogwhistling that followed First was just the shutdown of in-person schooling, which reduced the contact between children and this army of mandated reporters. We give families money.