NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. Presumably this also would rule out a large proportion of those providing kinship foster care, since they tend to be grandparents. For starters, there’s another caretaker in the home.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

● Want to see how easy it is for the foster care system to become the ultimate middle-class entitlement – step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own? All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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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

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. … The New York Times also has a story. ● Here’s the audio.

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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.

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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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