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

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Ofsted said that by placing social workers in schools – for which Newcastle is one of several government-funded pilots – the city was identifying children’s needs early and preventing some escalating to children’s social care. Inspectors described as a “missed opportunity” to assess risks and inform safety planning.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The previous round-up began by comparing a real-life case to the depiction of a dystopian child welfare surveillance state portrayed in Jessamine Chan’s novel The School for Good Mothers Now, Let Grow has a comprehensive comparison between the novel and the real world of family policing. It is not reassuring. ?

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Perspective: Associate Dean for Research & Scholarship Researchers at the UConn School of Social Work continue to leverage partnerships with state agencies to confront some of the most critical issues facing our society today. The law, passed in 2008, gives states the option to raise the foster care age limit from 18 to 21.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The report includes interviews with parents, family defenders, and more than 50 ACS employees from frontline caseworkers to top staff. Staff know this underestimates the trauma of investigation and underestimates the even worse trauma of foster care. What’s in the report It’s easy to see why Hansell was so embarrassed.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Children also benefited from early and authoritative decisions to escalate cases to pre-proceedings and care proceedings – though some children faced delays in going into care and were left in neglectful circumstances for too long. ” ‘I am sorry’ – lead councillor.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 17, 2022

In fact, in an interview with Vice News about the same case, Davis said: “I was very grateful that they had attorneys.” And sends their caseworker in [and says] I want you to go to the school, I want you to record the child, show up unannounced to the home, all things that are normally done during the course of action of any investigation?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

There’s a new study out from Rutgers University concerning children placed in foster care for 30 days or less – placements that always raise the question: If you could return the child in 30 days why did you take the child at all? Mom was late picking her up from school. Good thing they don’t have anything else to do.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● You can learn more about how that happened, and the ongoing fight, at this webinar on June 29 from Narrowing the Front Door. I missed this one last month: Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Law 360 sums it up perfectly: As New York City schools shuttered and people went into lockdown amid the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, city officials expected that having more children stuck at home would mean more children suffering abuse or neglect — but they were proven wrong. ● Who says so? And, what do you know?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The lawsuit was filed by the Family Justice Law Center, the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private firms. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The 74 reports that in New York City alone “…between August 2019 and January 2022, city school employees made over 13,750 false alarm reports to the state child abuse hotline.” The story goes on to explain why that actually understates the problem. Last week I highlighted a law review article by Prof. Another new article, from Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

ET, Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child, discusses her outstanding book and the intersection of law, journalism and social justice at this event sponsored by the New York University School of Law Forum. ? Rise interviews Rutgers Prof. Attending it will be just what you need to tune up your b.s.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In Minnesota, where this case takes place, that’s the term they use for a CASA volunteer.) ● For more about ICWA, listen to the Imprint podcast interview with Sandy White Hawk, author of the memoir A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return. ● (And note, in particular, the role of the “volunteer guardian ad litem ” in the case.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Or they’d interrogate the child at school. Her hands flew up into the “don’t shoot” position; she was well aware of the recent stories of cops “shooting first and asking later.” She prayed that her 7-year-old son was still asleep in his room. As his mother told The Imprint: “I wasn’t able to protect him like a mother.

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Jaeran Kim

AUGUST 11, 2017

I presented a keynote about school issues based on the article I published with Pact’s Executive Director Beth Hall for the book Transracial and Intercountry Adoption. Abstract: Increasingly, intercountry adopted children have special needs similar to children adopted from foster care in the United States.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the School of Social Work is able to offer a number of scholarship opportunities to our BSW and MSW students each academic year. Rachelle Bataille, Bachelor of Social Work This scholarship meant a lot to me because this has been one of my most challenging school years.

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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. This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents. What other roles can social workers do?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

Providing aid to families within a threatening and punitive system ruins the opportunity for schools, health care clinics, and social programs to be community-based resources where families can find non-coercive help with meeting their needs. ? So many of the parents I interviewed for this story have none of these luxuries. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ProPublica reports that The new rules would also restrict states from spending TANF funds on child protective services investigations, foster care or any other programs that don’t meet the fundamental purposes of welfare: strengthening poor families and keeping them together. Sarah Font. But she did not see her mother. she wondered.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Does DHS think any time a child decides the food in the school cafeteria is too “gross” and decides to skip lunch – which might mean he doesn’t eat for eight hours – the school and/or the parents are guilty of neglect? A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Also in New York City, The 74 reports, Across the nation’s largest [school] district, parents of students with disabilities who speak up on behalf of their children say they are being charged with allegations of child abuse or neglect — a tactic advocates say schools use to intimidate parents and coerce them into dropping their concerns.

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 22, 2022

During our first interview, Procopio brought with him Christopher Bates, a 26-year-old survivor who bravely told us his story of living on his own as a teen, selling his body to survive. Tyra Moore is the member: Who, What, Why: Tyra Moore on her commitment to mental health care for Black Americans. Penn Today. Biz New Orleans.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Bill Diamond says he thought any problems at the Elan School were resolved before he got there. Either overtly or by implication the attacks demand that the state move more quickly to take away children and move more slowly, if at all, to reunite foster children with their families. Removals of children into foster care skyrocketed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 5, 2022

According to the Big Lie, if you don’t want to surveil and tear apart families in massive numbers you must care more about “parents’ rights” than children’s safety. No one in the story suggests that children be interviewed in the presence of their parents when the allegation is “serious physical or sexual abuse.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Eleven percent of Black and Hispanic children in Massachusetts will be torn from their parents and consigned to the chaos of Massachusetts foster care. Of those cases in which the worker did check that box on the form, 89% did not involve so much as an allegation of sexual abuse or any form of physical abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In September you send your son off to boarding school. And Nonprofit Quarterly interviews Prof. Candy Noble — is part of a larger bipartisan effort to reform the state’s beleaguered foster care system and prioritize keeping families together. ● Suppose you are very rich. Kelley Fong’s Investigating Families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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