NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. It is possible that there is a reasonable explanation for all of this, and a detailed look at the case file and interviews with all involved would reveal that yes, in this case there was no other option but removal.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

. ● Tearing apart families because of foster-care panic is common; admitting that’s why you’re doing it is not. But this story from WitnessLA includes the case of a Los Angeles mother who was investigated by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but initially allowed to keep her children. That needs to stop."

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