Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

is a child welfare agency that works to end the cycle of child abuse and neglect through comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Over 2,000 organizations have either successfully achieved accreditation or are currently engaged in the process. Shelter, Inc. Shelter, Inc. Shelter Inc.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Martin Guggenheim calls “ACS’s widespread practice of engaging in lawless home invasions that terrorize parents and children.” In Massachusetts, the Boston Globe reports, former foster youth who were harmed when they were torn from their homes protested at the State Capitol. Instead, she said, she was placed with a foster family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. You can read about those data here and here.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Matarese is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for LGBTQ+ Children and Youth in Foster Care, and the National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification funded by the Children’s Bureau. Matarese is among over 800 U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When Honolulu Civil Beat reached out to NCCPR for comment on the findings of a study, done by the state’s own Court Improvement Project, of what really happens in child welfare court hearings, I said: “What this report tells us is that Hawaii doesn’t really have a court system for ‘child welfare’ cases at all.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

However, elsewhere there was support for the review’s proposal to create regional care co-operatives (RCCs) – which all local authorities would have to join – that would plan and commission foster, residential and secure care, and run new public provision, across their areas.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? Tomorrow: The New York Times published a front-page story about the study that was, mostly, very good.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The article aptly describes the Center as a first-of-its-kind organization that intends to engage in affirmative litigation with the [Administration for Children’s Services] —hitting it with lawsuits to potentially hold it accountable for allegedly violating families’ constitutional rights via heavy-handed investigatory and removal tactics.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

● We begin with this from The New York Times : A sweeping class-action lawsuit filed against New York City on Tuesday argues that the agency that investigates child abuse and neglect routinely engages in unconstitutional practices that traumatize the families it is charged with protecting. An anti-ransom bill has been introduced in New York.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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KVC

JUNE 23, 2021

Foster parents can especially be a welcome source of encouragement and reassurance to birth parents and can act as their parenting partners while their children are in foster care. Click here to learn more about becoming a foster parent. Safe family reunification is the number one goal of foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Just a week later, two of our sons were engaged in some rough horseplay. Would she feel that way were she fighting to get her child out of foster care? It begins with what happened to one of the authors, Katheryn Goldman, DMD, MPH, ABD: My 9-year-old daughter was jumping on her bed. She got two small stitches under her eye.

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Beyond Advocacy

APRIL 13, 2022

Cortez Carey, the recently hired Executive Director of the Foster Youth Caucus, was the evening’s spokesperson, a job he shared with Zahra Marin, NFYI’s National Policy and Organizing Director. As an Indigenous alumnus of the foster care system, Angelique brings a unique perspective to efforts to care for the nation’s vulnerable children.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Title IV-E agencies are tribes and state agencies that utilize Title IV-E funds to provide foster care service. Background There are calls to change the child welfare system to promote better outcomes for children. What does This Mean for Child Welfare Social Workers? Kinship care and the child welfare system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. KVC Kansas.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Researcher : Some social workers engage in research to better understand social issues, evaluate programs, and inform policy development. 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

They even acknowledged their own role in “contributing to racism in the legal field” in general and “within the child welfare legal field in particular…” Offhand, I can’t think of an organization that says “establishment” more than the American Bar Association. The topic is “anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The seeds of Q-Anon and Pizzagate were planted at the McMartin preschool, then grown and nurtured by a lot of “professionals” in "child welfare" who should have known better. And in the 1980s the mainstream child welfare establishment actively promoted satanic panic. Isn’t it time someone asked why they haven’t apologized?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Most of all, it’s a story about foster-care panic – about what happens when a state family policing agency, in this case, the Division for Children, Youth and Families , responds to a high-profile tragedy with a sharp sudden increase in removals of children from their homes. Are they “creaming”? It wasn’t always so.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 9, 2023

A little girl in foster care whispers to her mother during a “supervised visit”: ‘Mommy, I’m scared. She says, ‘Please don’t make us go back to this foster home. ● We begin with a quote from an extraordinary eight-month investigation by WOUB Public Media in Athens Ohio. Please Mommy, don’t make us go back there. Please, Mommy.

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Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This paper presents illustrative exemplars as case studies of contextually tailored, sociotechnical mobile health interventions designed with community members to address health inequities using community-engaged research approaches. Journal of Public Child Welfare, Published online September 6, 2020. Author abstract.). Hamilton, A.M.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

KVC case managers Victoria Clark, Dalton Shump, and Micah McEwan all work for the Olathe, Kansas office, where they coordinate and support the day-to-day needs of children and teens in foster care and their families. I had a friend encourage me to apply to KVC, to explore if social work in the child welfare system would be a good fit.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

Sexual abuse: Sexual abuse is defined as intentionally forcing a child to engage in (or exposing a child to) sexual acts, including penetration, fondling and exposure of body parts. Engaging in risky behavior. Hitting, kicking, burning, shaking and other forceful actions are examples of physical abuse. Mentor a child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

As America’s racial justice reckoning finally catches up with “child welfare” – or, as it should be called, family policing – the “child welfare establishment is engaged in its own campaign of reputation laundering. Real child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ? James-Brown claims to hunger. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit. At the highest alleged level of risk, the program calls it “relentless engagement.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

That’s the current name of a child welfare trade association that co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. Yet none of the recent trips to the reputation laundry from child welfare establishment groups includes support for any proposal that would reduce their power.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

The child welfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. The child welfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. The child welfare equivalent is: “We are anti-racist.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

As America’s racial justice reckoning finally catches up with “child welfare” – or, as it should be called, family policing – the “child welfare establishment is engaged in its own campaign of reputation laundering. They’re still engaging in health terrorism. for decades. But it’s actually worse.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

UConn has allowed me with an invaluable opportunity to receive a high-quality education which will afford me the opportunity to contribute to the advancement of human welfare especially in marginalized people. UConn has been providing me with the tools necessary to engage people and to meet them where they are. Julio Morales Jr.,

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