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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 17, 2022
I also expressed the hope that we would see more stories about such families and more self-reflection within the system and in journalism. In fact, in an interview with Vice News about the same case, Davis said: “I was very grateful that they had attorneys.” So far, it’s not looking good.
Social Work Haven
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
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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. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m. In 2021 ProPublica published a superb expose of this practice. Sarah Font.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 5, 2022
A longtime "child welfare" establishment apparatchik says the quiet part out loud Most of the time, the columns that longtime “child welfare” establishment apparatchik Paul DiLorenzo, writes for The Imprint , are just dull regurgitations of establishment talking points. But his most recent column is, in its own way, fascinating.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Bill Diamond Every state legislature has one: the lawmaker who rushes to “blast” the state or local “child welfare” agency after a child “known to the system” dies. A brief recap For most of the past 25 years, Maine embraced a take-the-child-and-run approach to child welfare. Removals of children into foster care skyrocketed.
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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