NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The fundamental fact of American “child welfare” is that if you’re not white and affluent the system will discriminate against you. That’s not unique to “child welfare” of course, but the field seems to be “in denial” about it to an extraordinary degree.) The case also illustrates bigger problems. ? Similarly, the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits. The family police agency, the state Department of Human Services, responded with a lie – purely by accident, they say. At this point, it’s worth noting that the Hawaii Department of Human Services has a total budget of nearly $3.8

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled. More than a year ago Philadelphia passed a law prohibiting the city’s family policing agency, the Department of Human Services, from doing this.

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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

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

APRIL 6, 2022

Twenty years ago, Penn Law Professor (and NCCPR Board Member) Dorothy Roberts changed the landscape of “child welfare” when she literally wrote the book on racial bias in family policing: Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. will be the keynote speakers at this free virtual conference on April 27. ?

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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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