NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

. ● At the end of 2021, NPR exposed the hideous practice of forcing parents to pay ransom to get their kids back from foster care. (No, The stories prompted the federal government to issue new guidance opposing the practice and several states and localities are promising to at least curb it. . ●

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Most assessments had a clear purpose and rationale for intervention, with direct work providing valuable insights into children’s experiences, and their needs being well-considered by plans that also included their wishes and feelings. .” Practice better beyond the MASH.

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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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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.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And in its report on social care last year, the CMA found that councils “can struggle to collaborate successfully due to risk aversion, budgetary constraints, differences in governance, and difficulties aligning priorities and sharing costs”. It concluded this was unlikely to change without action by central government.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Ofsted also found that children came into care at the right time after careful consideration, with social workers being “tenacious” in supporting children to live with extended families where possible. The inspectorate said the council now had stronger governance of children’s services, of which it had undertaken a full restructure.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Last month, two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. THE CITY reports on a fight in the New York City Council over whether ACS will continue to be able to run roughshod over families. ? Not one of those words came from a birth parent.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. They involve clients in decision-making processes and encourage them to actively participate in setting goals and developing intervention plans.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The latest McLawsuit reinforces ugly stereotypes about who loses children to foster care. ● s childhood had the hallmarks of trauma and instability that DCFS is accustomed to seeing in children entering foster care, including early childhood abuse and neglect, family violence, frequent moves, and unstable placements.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

This interdisciplinary approach allows for a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the challenges people face, leading to more effective interventions and support systems. Advocacy for Vulnerable Populations One of the primary responsibilities of a social worker is to advocate for the rights and well-being of vulnerable populations.

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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. Hacking the cis-tem: Transgender citizens and the early digital state.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Child Welfare League of America, a trade association for public and private family policing agencies, many of which are paid for each day they hold a child in foster care, called CAPTA “foundational to the country’s ability to prevent child abuse and neglect.” Nah, just kidding. maybe it’s poverty, but it’s not just poverty.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Apparently only a Harvard professor can tell the difference between those cries and these , from children taken at the Mexican border: For the Perkins-Sabey children, the experience in foster care was probably the least awful it can be. Well, that’s probably somewhere around half of all foster care cases.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This would be an overreach in the roles and responsibilities of a government agency. Both divisions of this same agency are ultimately overseen by Erin Dalton, who is as nonchalant about the harm of foster care as she is fanatical in her desire to vacuum up data about poor people. Emphasis added.]

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

I would love to learn more about interventions that improve the mental wellness of oppressed youth. Upon graduation, my goal is to work with The Department of Children and Families and continue to work with children in foster care and help aid sibling reunification. Awards Rollin Williams/Y.C. The School of Social Work Ph.D.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

With a few notable exceptions (generally written by nonwhite reporters), the Globe follows the party line of those whose 19 th Century counterparts proudly called themselves “child savers” – that massive intervention into families is needed to keep children safe. In this story, America’s foremost scholar on family policing and race, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

Yet this hypothetical anti-terrorism law already is the law governing the system we call “child welfare.” Last year, the Texas legislature considered a bill to modestly narrow the grounds for coercive intervention into families and make it harder to confuse poverty with neglect.

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