University of Connecticut

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yolanda has also worked for the Foster Care & Adoptive Services Division where she provided oversight and support to foster parents, conducted training for kinship providers, facilitated support groups, licensed kinship foster homes and relicensed foster homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

And then there are the times when the foster child doesn’t live long enough to be reunified. In criminal justice cases that involve the death penalty, the accused is entitled to a lawyer. Here’s a case in point. ● Reason has an update on one such case in Arizona. ● The accused also is entitled to a lawyer for an appeal.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

It would never be tolerated in a story about criminal justice. A question for any journalists reading this: Suppose you were working on a story about the criminal justice system, and a prosecutor said: “ By definition , anyone in jail is a criminal – they’re rapists and torturers and all sorts of other crooks.”

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges.

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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. Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. The criminal justice system pales in comparison," he told Law360. Even people who work in the criminal justice field are shocked when they see what happens in Family Court."

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Stop Abuse Campaign

AUGUST 14, 2022

Ironically, the behavior that Krystal’s mother cited as most intolerable, that she used to justify placing her into foster care, was dabbling with marijuana. . This study also broadened our understanding of how poor outcomes, like criminal-justice involvement, addiction, poverty, etc, are passed through the generations.

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