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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 6, 2022
Roberts’ interview with Boston Review. Roberts, Kassandra Frederique, executive director of Drug Policy Alliance and Dr. Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor ; (the book the Allegheny County Department of Human Services hopes you will never read!)
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. At least 45 kids died of abuse or neglect in North Carolina in 2021, according to the U.S. Sarah Font. Why had this happened?
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. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.
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. More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Department of Human Services, went to great lengths to spin the results and direct readers toward the spin instead of the reviews themselves. Though generally the reviews were favorable, the reviewers’ concerns were so serious that the agency that commissioned the reviews, the Allegheny County, Pa., That’s hardly nothing.
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