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Pushing back on a child welfare poll full of loaded questions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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? There is no mention of seeking to recapture the spirit of the Indian Child Welfare Act. I don’t know. But some of the questions sure sound like push polling.

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A New York State “child welfare” agency can curb one family policing horror with the stroke of a pen. Do they have the guts?

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.)

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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

The interstate compact was created primarily to govern cross-border foster care moves. The National Association of Counsel for Children agrees. Nobody in the Massachusetts child-welfare system wanted to take another potentially deadly risk involving the interstate compact. Her shadow hung over Ricardo’s case.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

At the same time, we also have this huge growth in mutual aid projects … to a large degree able to take control of their own redistribution of wealth to some extent, and able to help their neighbors with everything from providing diapers, clothing and provisions like that to each other as well as services like counseling childcare, things like that.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 14, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Think you know all about the cases at the heart of the current challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act? The federal government released its annual Child Maltreatment report. The federal government released its annual Child Maltreatment report. The Imprint has a summary.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Dorothy Roberts , who explains: “A promising trend that this lawsuit is part of is recognizing that enforcing parents’ constitutional rights is critical to an approach to child welfare that truly benefits children. NCCPR Board Members served as co-counsel for plaintiffs in both those suits.)

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When injustice hides in plain sight

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Commission on Civil Rights is examining racism in the New York family policing system (a more accurate term than “child welfare” system). The New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. New York’s institutional providers of family defense prepared in-depth written testimony that is a report in itself. As I read it, I had to stop every few pages.