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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Department of Health and Human Services Trends in Foster Care and Adoption, FFY 2011-2020 Using the same limited measures, OPEGA suggests that child abuse deaths in June 2021 didn’t have much effect, since investigations didn’t increase. The result is the Disney version of how a family policing agency works. Source: U.S.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. Throughout the case, despite the fact that the parent was engaged in treatment, the treatment was not effective. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable.