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From the people who brought you AFST: The most dangerous "child welfare" algorithm yet

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy. How do they know?

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.