NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Shanta Trivedi, faculty director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore School of Law, write about the need to repeal the law that did so much to get us into this mess, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. Instead, she said, she was placed with a foster family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. ● As is so often the case, the professor’s comments minimize the harm of one of the worst “adverse childhood experiences” a child can endure – being torn from everyone s/he knows and loves and thrown into foster care. You can read all the recent commentaries on the harm of ASFA here. You know, the report the agency tried to suppress?

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 12, 2024

Together the partners identifying current federal rules that require state Medicaid and child welfare agencies to ensure health care access for Medicaid-enrolled children and youth in foster care.

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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. ● One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Associate Professor Nate Okpych led one of the first large-scale representative studies about the effects of long-lasting, supportive relationships on older foster youth.

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inSocialWork

JANUARY 19, 2021

They will tell you how they assessed the climate and needs of the foster care system in Sacramento County, CA, conducted research and responded with an adapted intervention – PC-Care. Interviewer: Annette Semanchin-Jones, PhD. Implications for placement stability and other outcomes are described. Brandi Hawk , Ph.D.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

The other is if they try to pass off official figures about abuse in foster care as bearing any resemblance to reality. States typically claim that, in any given year, fewer than one percent of foster youth are abused or neglected in foster care. Two ways to measure rates of abuse in foster care.

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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? Here’s the bad news: It took a decision of the Arizona Supreme Court to get this done.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And see also The 74’s interview with Darcey Merritt, associate professor of social work at New York University, discussing why CPS should stand for Child Poverty Surveillance. ? 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

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

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 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

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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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My current internship has provided me with so many opportunities to meet with community partners, learn how to use anticipatory empathy, and practice motivational interviewing. My goal for my final year is to do a clinical internship working with children. My focused area of study is Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The Imprint’s weekly podcast features a fascinating interview with Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child. ? There’s more about the failure of the current system, the racial and class bias that are built into it, and the case for abolition in this Youth Today interview with University of Pennsylvania Prof.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

We should remove criminalization of women who are pregnant and taking drugs," Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said in an interview. Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) That needs to stop."

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. Writing in The Imprint , Prof.

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 22, 2022

She also earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Missouri-Columbia. 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. Study: Dads’ money woes can set stage for family conflict.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Even though the ethics review for that one was co-authored by a faculty colleague of one of the creators of the algorithm, it cautioned that one reason AFST is ethical is that it does not attempt to stamp the scarlet number on every child at birth – something known as “universal-level risk stratification.” One of the ethics reviewers, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

In Pennsylvania, lawmakers expanded the pool of who qualifies as a mandated reporter in the wake of the Penn State University child sex abuse scandal. Dorothy Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania gets exactly two sentences. Here’s a case in point from 2020. Things haven’t changed much.

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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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