NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

. ● Florida families who say they were denied the chance to care for extended family members, with the children sometimes placed with well-connected strangers instead, are not giving up their legal fight, as WFTS-TV reports. ● From The Guardian , this story from San Diego: “She lost her child in a home birth. And ICYMI, here’s the trailer:

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 2, 2022

On the other hand, another in a long line of studies suggests it may reduce foster care entries. But for these and similar interventions there is one huge catch: Call it the tattletale factor. At worst, this can wind up widening the net of needless intervention into families. The effort is probably sincere.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent. As the story explains: Rodriguez’s passion for reforming DCF stems from her own experience in foster care.

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inSocialWork

AUGUST 22, 2023

Alyssa worked in the foster care system as a case manager and therapist, before taking a position with BestSelf Behavioral Health, where she provided social-emotional learning throughout several Buffalo public schools, community centers and the East Ferry Youth Services Detention Center.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Matarese is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for LGBTQ+ Children and Youth in Foster Care, and the National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification funded by the Children’s Bureau.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

. ● A member of the Seattle Times editorial board has made a discovery : Turns out, one of the best ways to shrink foster care rolls is neither parent therapy nor drug treatment, but something much more concrete: housing. This solution, to both homelessness and foster care sounds almost ridiculously obvious. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Last week, they published a story about high turnover among caseworkers for the private agencies that oversee foster care in that city, and the enormous harm that does to children. A common misunderstanding is that the leading reason kids are taken into the foster care system is because of physical or sexual abuse.

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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, We had therapeutic interventions for Violet’s tantrums, but no plan for getting her family back together. You can read the entire series here. ●

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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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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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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

JULY 25, 2023

● New England Public Media has an excellent story about how Massachusetts is piloting the most promising innovation in the country for safely reducing needless foster care. Oh, and one more thing: The crisis that led to all this actually began with a botched family police intervention involving Ms. Lopez’s oldest child.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

In addition, seven areas are testing providing family support network packages to help extended families care for children and avoid them going into care. Involving family networks: the pathfinders will also test using family group decision-making to help parents minimise risks to children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Combine these two stories with earlier excellent work by the same reporters on family policing agencies diverting some foster youth’s Social Security payments to help run their bureaucracies and you see a pattern, discussed in this NCCPR blog post about foster care as a shakedown scheme.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 4, 2023

And the listing increases the odds that, even if the children weren’t thrown into foster care this time, it will happen if the family is reported again – because the listing raises suspicions, whether it’s the guess of a human caseworker or a computer algorithm raising a family’s “risk score.”

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

Social workers spend a tremendous amount of time and resources developing interventions to help serve disadvantaged families and individuals. Parents with three or more ACEs tended to use more social services related to alcohol and drug use, mental health, and foster care payments than parents with one ACE.

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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. Bedrock of stability’.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

However, the commission’s report found that the care system had “failed to keep up with the needs of the growing profile of teenagers in care”, notably through the predominance of family-based foster care designed for younger children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2022

That contributes to foster-care panics , sharp, sudden increases in children needlessly torn from their homes. We’re explaining the problem – and why foster-care panics make it worse -- and suggesting real solutions. Therolf’s critics are simply doing his job for him. By the way, in Los Angeles it’s probably 58%. )

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

On early help, the care review urged the government to invest £2bn over the next five years for multidisciplinary council teams to deliver family help to 500,000 more families, to help rebalance a system that has seen an increasing proportion of resource flow into late intervention over the past decade.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

She did it -- three times -- when The New York Times exposed foster care as “the new ‘Jane Crow’.” She wrote: I’m a licensed clinical social worker who spent my career in public child welfare, primarily providing foster care services. All this made “Jane Addams” very upset.

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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

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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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Famcare

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The goal is to always be improving child welfare through various services, responses and interventions, and with the right social services software on your side, the tasks can become easier to track and perhaps even more simple.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

“The fact that selected areas will be able to voluntarily form RCCs, and will receive both set-up and capital resource from central government to do so, while so many other areas of the country won’t, simply cannot be described as a decisive intervention to reform the whole dysfunctional care market,” it said.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It took the intervention of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to undo some of the damage done to the children at the center of this case. How it took the intervention of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to stop things from getting even worse. ? How, after a judge returned the children, the family police brought new charges.

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Social Workers Speak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Will Francis, executive director of NASW-TX, is a guest: [Audio] After A Decade Of Legal Scrutiny, Texas’ Foster Care System Is Still Failing To Keep Kids Safe. Why hasn’t Texas made more progress toward addressing or fixing problems with its foster-care system, even after a decade of legal scrutiny?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”) Has ACS ever gone to the legislature and asked lawmakers to change the law to empower it to screen out reports that don’t deserve any “intervention” at all? But that only tells part of the story.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2023

When marijuana was legalized in Colorado family police intervention in families where it was used actually increased. Yet it’s the Roxbury mom who doesn’t dare use pot – or at least makes sure to hide that use -- because she knows that paints a target on her back and she could lose her children.

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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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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2022

Child Au is now being cared for by foster parents and, while the review said she was making progress, it added that she needed specialist intervention to deal with the impact of her early experiences. Fluctuating’ interventions meant neglect and abuse of girl ‘kicked across room’ was never tackled. Failure to refer.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

JULY 15, 2022

Foster care and attachment disorders. When we remove a baby from their mother, they are most likely going into some version of foster care. Bonding is also a two-way street; a foster parent isn’t likely to bond with a baby with the same intensity as the baby’s mother. Relatives and the cycle of trauma.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

During my time at UConn, learning how to work with different groups of people and learning different interventions will help me expand my knowledge even further after graduation. My focused area of study is Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 9, 2023

The research presented by SSW covers a wide range of areas and our expertise, including child welfare, foster care, sexual and gender minority youth mental health, and substance use, among others. Presentation: Emerging into Parenthood While in Foster Care: Correlates of Active Parenting Behaviors at Ages 21 and 23.

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