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JANUARY 5, 2024

Commenting on her honour on LinkedIn , Savage said: “My message to all children and young people coming out of the care system, as I did all those years ago, or adults who suddenly find themselves ill with disability, like I experienced eight years ago, is to believe in yourself and never let what you have lived through solely define you.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Or, as bad or worse, it might go to an outfit like Chapin Hall (see the item below about whitewashing abuse in foster care). There are horrifying details about the sexual assault of two young teenagers in Texas foster care. . One is 16, the other 13. Family policing is one of America’s ugliest exports.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from foster care. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled. Now the family is suing. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

. ● Also in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s highly-touted predictive analytics family policing algorithm reportedly is under investigation for bias against the disabled. Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Department of Justice has found the state regularly violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by needlessly institutionalizing children with mental health problems.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As Kathleen Creamer put it in this story from The Imprint “No one has done more than Marty to move this field towards justice — even when no one seemed to care about justice.” ? California becomes the latest state to curb the practice of making parents pay ransom to get their kids back from foster care.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

During the pandemic, despite risk to themselves, they continued to go out every day to ensure older and disabled people could live safely and well at home, acting as a lifeline for many.”

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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

APRIL 16, 2023

The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in foster care. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in foster care are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Department of Justice has launched an investigation into whether the algorithm discriminates against families in which a parent is disabled. ● He’s jailed and his son is thrown into foster care. The boy dies in foster care just two weeks later. I have some additional context here. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

And then they disabled the chat function, so no one else could directly challenge the predictive analytics salespeople, such as Emily Putnam-Hornstein, whose work is discussed here – and who even gets offended at the thought of the family regulation system being called a family regulation system. They tried to shut out opponents like J.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● You can learn more about how that happened, and the ongoing fight, at this webinar on June 29 from Narrowing the Front Door.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Senior managers had also taken action to reduce the “very high caseloads” for social workers seen at the last inspection and subsequent monitoring visits, enabling, for example, social workers in the children with disabilities teamto work intensively with children with complex needs, preventing these from escalating.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

That was among the findings from its latest State of the Nation’s Foster Care report, this year based on a survey of 3,352 carers and 99 fostering services. This chimes with Ofsted’s annual fostering statistics , which found “too few carers with the right skills” to support the number of children needing placements.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It also said the council needed to improve “variable” levels of practice with disabled children to achieve a consistently high quality. Ofsted also found cases of children being in placements with connected carers who had not been approved, for whom Warwickshire needed to improve oversight and decision-making.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

To help support you in your direct work with children and families, check out Community Care Inform’s direct work knowledge and practice hub. It includes a directory of useful tools, specific guidance on working with disabled and older children and advice on recording direct work. Bedrock of stability’.

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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. Mezzo Social Work. Mezzo Social Work includes social workers that develop programs, organizations and work with groups and communities.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, in the American population of children, African Americans make up 15%, but they represent 33% of foster care children. Youth who identify as LGBTQ represent over 30% of those in foster care , compared with the 11.2% of children’s national population.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

Taken together, they reveal a hellscape which, even if it is not designed to squeeze every last dollar out of poor families, perpetuate their poverty and prolong the trauma of foster care nevertheless does exactly that. That led to the child being thrown into foster care. So the foster care is prolonged.

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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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Jaeran Kim

AUGUST 11, 2017

The first is an article written from my research on adoptive parents who placed an intercountry adopted child in out-of-home care due to the child’s disability. Abstract: Increasingly, intercountry adopted children have special needs similar to children adopted from foster care in the United States.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The latest McLawsuit reinforces ugly stereotypes about who loses children to foster care. ● s childhood had the hallmarks of trauma and instability that DCFS is accustomed to seeing in children entering foster care, including early childhood abuse and neglect, family violence, frequent moves, and unstable placements.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

First, the good news The learning curve begins with the Colorado Legislature, which included in its charge to the Colorado Mandated Reporter Task Force a requirement to examine how implicit bias in mandatory reporting disproportionately affects families of color, people with disabilities and under-resourced communities.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

They were afraid of social services,” a parent with disabilities (one of the groups most vulnerable to family policing), told The Colorado Sun. ● “When my kids were growing up, they weren’t afraid of the bogeyman. People don’t think about how traumatic these investigations are for kids.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

A fourth complaint alleged that DCYF based conclusions about a parent’s capacity on their epilepsy and intellectual disabilities and failed to provide reasonable modifications. ? And finally, I have reposted NCCPR’s annual reminder that If it’s April Fools, it must be Child Abuse Hype and Hysteria Month.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

. ● From The Imprint: A jury in Northern California has awarded nearly $25 million to three siblings who were sexually abused by a foster parent, compensation that attorneys for the children describe as some measure of accountability for the assaults they suffered.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

But sometimes, being “nice” is just passive aggression – as when presenters at a garden party “conversation circle” took almost the entire time for themselves and disabled the chat. There was nothing "respectful" or "inclusive" about that, but the garden party presenters did it "nicely," speaking softly and smiling.

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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. This includes defending individuals’ rights and addressing issues such as poverty, mental health, domestic violence, disability rights and substance abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Font and Putnam-Hornstein have been brought in by that other bastion of the child welfare establishment, Chapin Hall, to advise them on a study that amounts to a whitewash of abuse in foster care. Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

From the story: The Hackneys, who have developmental disabilities, are struggling to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital when she refused to eat could be seen as so neglectful that she’d need to be taken from her home. Justice Department is asking the same question. … Yes, they really do that.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Department of Justice for bias against the disabled. s second claim is that once reported and screened in for investigation, workers are no more likely, and possibly a little less likely, to “substantiate” an allegation and place a child in foster care when the family is Black than when the family is white. out Drake et al.’s

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The directors’ body pointed to one authority where the average cost for a children’s residential placement for a 16-year-old was about £5,000 per week compared to around £1,200 per week for a younger adult with learning disabilities. No evidence profit-making reduces quality’.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. NPR and The Marshall Project exposed the practice in 2021.

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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 Columbus Dispatch reports on a bill intended to curb still another way family policing agencies harm children – discriminating against their parents if those parents are disabled. ? Lots of news this week, but one story stands out above all: ?

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