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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Last week, Virginia’s Director of Social Services, Danny Avula, gave a presentation to the state Commission on Youth. The upside of that is that it keeps our overall numbers of kids in formal foster care low,” Avula said. There’s a term for these kinds of placements – “hidden foster care” (of course).
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
A “scholar” who insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare writes a “predictive analytics” algorithm for the State of California. Somehow, the contract to write a so-called “independent ethics review” of the algorithm is given to another “scholar” who also insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare.
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KVC
MARCH 1, 2021
Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes.
Social Work Haven
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges. 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.
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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