KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But when she came to KVC Hospitals, she received comprehensive medical and psychiatric treatment. A Moving Family Reunification Story After Foster Care. Ashley and Sean’s substance use challenges led to their children being removed from their home and put in foster care. Read it now. Read it now. Read it now.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

The focus is on false allegations by child abuse pediatricians, and a Texas mother, Holly Simonton, whose own experience led her to found a group called Parents Behind the Pinwheels : In April, children's hospitals across the country display pinwheels for National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The consequences go beyond the jailhouse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It provides astoundingly small amounts of cash or basic goods so children can stay home or return home because, guess what, they were taken, or are now trapped in foster care, because of poverty alone. It’s an excellent program – but why is it just a tiny add-on to a system built on family policing and foster care?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from foster care. In Dayton, Ohio, a misdiagnosis of child abuse forced infants into foster care for nearly a year.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 6, 2022

? Responding to investigative reporting by NPR, the federal government has told states they no longer have to make parents pay ransom to get their children back from foster care. They don’t call it ransom, of course, but when someone takes away your child and makes you pay money to get the child back, anything else is a euphemism).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Often, when these parents reach out — going to the hospital for example or seeking therapy — that nurse or therapist whose trusted expertise they desperately need, is required under law to report suspected abuse or neglect in the home. As the story explains: Rodriguez’s passion for reforming DCF stems from her own experience in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. From the story: A girl from Bethel had first gone to North Star [hospital] at 12, when she was “feeling sad and irritable, and exhibiting some aggression toward her younger siblings.” Added Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

The actual title is “What do Do If You Are Mistakenly Accused of Child Abuse in a Hospital Emergency Room.” Would she feel that way were she fighting to get her child out of foster care? Then comes a claim that, for some hospitals, is demonstrably false. The hospital contacts CPS only when staff suspect maltreatment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

The actual evidence of the inherent harm of foster care and the high rate of abuse in foster care is so overwhelming, that all they can do is try to distract us with horror stories. Because when it comes to advocating for a take-the-child-and-run approach, horror stories are all they’ve got.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

And in Seattle, Fox 13 reports , a judge ruled that a rush to judgment by a doctor at Seattle Children’s Hospital was "based on conscious and unconscious bias towards people from minority communities. There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of foster care. issued a report on one.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

As CBC News reports, that suit calls the modern Canadian family policing system "the next round of cultural genocide and discrimination toward First Nations." ● Two big new studies, one in JAMA Open and one in Academic Pediatrics examine who gets drug tested in hospitals and who doesn’t. It’s who you think. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in foster care on any given day -- is even worse. She said no.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In this case the hospital involved got it right – but it didn’t matter, the family police took the child anyway. In another case, also reported by the Tennessee Tribune , the same hospital got it terribly wrong. ? They suffered months of trauma; the youngest child died. It’s a Christmas miracle!

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

have continued helping people with critical in-home family support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment and more. During this time, KVC Health Systems’ nearly 1,500 team members across the U.S. It will also unveil its 2021 Impact Report.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator. Macro Social Work. Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

The Washington State Standard reports that Washington State is easing a policy that had required hospitals to automatically turn in to the family police the parents of any newborn “affected” by the mother’s substance use. I have a blog post about it. ● Of course, not everyone is happy about this.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

For as long as I’ve been following family policing – and that’s more than 45 years now - I’ve been reading stories exposing the horrors inflicted on children forced to endure days, sometimes months in makeshift placements such as family policing agency offices, hotels, hospital wards, jails – even parked cars.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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inSocialWork

JANUARY 19, 2021

In this episode, Lindsay Armendariz and Brandi Hawk discuss Parent-Child Care (PC-Care), a brief intervention designed to respond to the needs of parents, foster parents and children in the child welfare system. Implications for placement stability and other outcomes are described. Lindsay Anne Forte Armendariz, M.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

I suspect the person who visited the mother in the child’s hospital room was not truly a Social Worker, but a case manager of some sort with probably only a bachelor’s degree. She did it -- three times -- when The New York Times exposed foster care as “the new ‘Jane Crow’.” All this made “Jane Addams” very upset.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 30, 2023

A 12-year-old Native Alaskan girl in foster care says she wants to commit suicide. What could be better for a child like that than to ditch her in a hospital for a week, all alone, without telling her family, or anyone else, where she is? I have a blog post about it. --A

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

For example, KVC and its supporters care for thousands of children in foster care , help hundreds of children either to be adopted or to safely reunify with their families , and provide life-changing treatment at its children’s mental health hospitals.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 14, 2024

And rather than face clandestine drug testing and suspicion from medical professionals who are mandatory reporters, pregnant people stay away from prenatal care and giving birth in hospitals. Mandatory reporting is where the racial bias that permeates family policing begins.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator Macro Social Work Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Also: You know all those stories claiming there was an increase in hospital admissions for abusive head trauma? . … We think that during the pandemic families were given enough support that they never got to that edge [of lashing out at their children]. That wasn’t true either. ?

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 12, 2023

We are neglecting children and youth who have high-intensity behavioral health needs because of insufficient therapeutic residential care options. Many in foster care are relegated to boarding for weeks or months in emergency rooms or to living in short-term psychiatric hospital wards with no end in sight because of the shortage.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. KVC Health Systems’ local subsidiaries are: KVC Hospitals. KVC Hospitals – Children’s Psychiatric Treatment. KVC Hospitals is accredited by The Joint Commission and considered the gold standard in healthcare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2023

And here’s what the medical expert from Massachusetts General Hospital has to say: As for women taking edibles, “Why make them feel bad…if it’s a natural plant-based medicine that helps them relax a little bit and connect with their kids and focus and let go of all the things that are burdening them?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

That’s the headline on a New York Magazine story about a hospital that allegedly went to astounding lengths to secretly test a mother for drugs, and then report her to the family police because she tested positive for marijuana. Something similar happened in Virginia.

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Like the organizations, agencies, and people who have been voicing concerns across social media and reaching out to NASW-NYC in light of the announcement, we too learned of the Mayor’s plan to involuntarily hospitalize people, when it was announced.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 18, 2022

“Access to gender affirming care for youth saves lives, reduces the likelihood of harm, and promotes healing.”. ‘It It really will have almost no impact at all’: WV lawmakers strip social worker raises from foster care bill. Joseph’s Hospital celebrates 2022 Social Work Month in March. Mountain State Spotlight.

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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. Social workers also play important roles in schools, hospitals, and other public settings. What other roles can social workers do?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

--There’s been still another expose of still another “child welfare” agency swiping foster youth’s Social Security benefits to keep for themselves – this time it’s San Diego County, California. --And And Newsweek looks at “How Hospitals Are Secretly Drug Testing Pregnant Women.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Children can be held in foster care for months before a court ever decides if the child was, in fact, abused or neglected. The story in question is about the fact that foster youth are trapped in psychiatric hospitals and juvenile jails because the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has no place to put them.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

I am completing my field education at Natchaug Hospital in an outpatient program for older adults experiencing mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders. My passion is to advocate for underserved and monolingual Latinx populations, undocumented individuals, and children involved in the mental health or foster care system.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The expanded KVC Missouri team will serve thousands of families each year, offering preventative family strengthening services, foster care , children’s mental health treatment, educational academies, and other services from 20 locations including Kansas City, St. We can truly transform the face of foster care and mental health.”

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