NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 7, 2024
For the Donlins, their nightmare at the hands of the family police, known in Iowa as the Department of Human Services, consisted of eight months of hypersurveillance and an attempt to take away their young children. They hauled the family into court and threatened to throw the children into foster care.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 27, 2022
And, precisely because most cases we think of when we hear the words “child abuse” are nothing like the horror stories and far more like the case of Logan Marr, the data show that, almost always, family preservation is safer than foster care. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.
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Social Work Blog
APRIL 5, 2023
In 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , Gerald O’Brien provides a resource to overcome these challenges, because policy familiarity contributes to social workers’ fundamental understanding of the individuals, communities, institutions, and governments they serve.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The harms of removal and sometimes also foster care can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 1, 2023
That state’s child welfare “ombudsman” and a former lawmaker with a particularly ugly track record have been fueling a foster-care panic , leading an effort to tear apart a system that once, briefly was, relatively speaking, a national model. If anything, this kind of misuse of data is even worse in Maine. Casey Foundation.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 26, 2023
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 2, 2021
He spoke these words when nearly half of the children in the family regulation system were Black, most were poor, and the federal government was rapidly draining social safety nets. In Arizona, for example, nearly every impoverished Black child will be subjected to a child abuse investigation and 20% will be forced into foster care.
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