Community Care
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. Lack of diversity in adoption workforce and panels . The adoption workforce, and adoption panels, are insufficiently diverse.”
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
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
According to Virginia Public Media : Avula noted Virginia’s rate of placement with relatives is less than half of the national average — a statistic he said is skewed by the fact that local social services departments in the state prioritize informal placements with relatives before sending a child into the foster care system.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 20, 2024
At long last the federal government has released state and national foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022. The snapshot number of children in foster care on any given day, also declined, from 392,000 on Sept. When we curb needless foster care, children get safer!
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
They say Hawaii’s family police agency, known as “Child Welfare Services” (CWS) ignored them. ? The foster/adoptive parents, who initially reported the child as missing, have been charged with murdering the child. Despite the pleas of relatives, Isabella’s siblings are still in foster care with strangers.
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. In Dayton, Ohio, a misdiagnosis of child abuse forced infants into foster care for nearly a year.
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