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News Items – September 30, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Victor Armstrong is the first chief health equity officer at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Will Francis, executive director of NASW-TX, is a guest: [Audio] After A Decade Of Legal Scrutiny, Texas’ Foster Care System Is Still Failing To Keep Kids Safe. The Charlotte Observer.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, it’s also safer. That may help explain how a tragedy like this death in foster care could occur. ● 27 of this year. .

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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.