NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s also an acknowledgment of racial disparities: Black children account for 13% of Pennsylvania youth, but 35% of those in foster care and two-thirds of those in state juvenile-justice placements … But the story goes on to explain that, even with the improvements, Philadelphia still is an outlier when it comes to tearing apart families.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 12, 2023

We are neglecting children and youth who have high-intensity behavioral health needs because of insufficient therapeutic residential care options. Many in foster care are relegated to boarding for weeks or months in emergency rooms or to living in short-term psychiatric hospital wards with no end in sight because of the shortage.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

One of the things that happens to children when they’re institutionalized is they are often doped up on potent, sometimes dangerous psychiatric medication. The New York Times recently sought to reassure us that, when it comes to foster children, that problem had been curbed. (They got a little help from the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In 2014, the Mercury News in Northern California investigated the misuse and overuse of potent psychiatric medication on foster youth. The Marshall Project also partnered with the Oklahoma nonprofit news site The Frontier for this story: Oklahoma is prosecuting pregnant women for using medical marijuana.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

By centralizing critical functions like Accounting and Human Resources, KVC’s local teams can focus on their core competencies such as social work, therapy and inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment. KVC Hospitals – Children’s Psychiatric Treatment. KVC West Virginia. KVC Foundation.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 18, 2022

“Access to gender affirming care for youth saves lives, reduces the likelihood of harm, and promotes healing.”. ‘It It really will have almost no impact at all’: WV lawmakers strip social worker raises from foster care bill. Mountain State Spotlight.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

story about the overuse of psychiatric medication on kids. ? In The New York Times even social problems can be gentrified. I have a blog post about how they just did the “oh-my-God-it’s-spreading-to-the-white-middle-class!!”

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician. In this role, I work in the homes and communities of families to provide therapy services to young people at risk of hospitalization or being placed out of the home for psychiatric reasons.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Children can be held in foster care for months before a court ever decides if the child was, in fact, abused or neglected. The story in question is about the fact that foster youth are trapped in psychiatric hospitals and juvenile jails because the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has no place to put them.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

These drugs, generally intended for short-term use, are sometimes prescribed for years, even though they can have severe side effects — including psychotic episodes, suicidal behavior, weight gain and interference with reproductive development … Moreover, many psychiatric drugs commonly prescribed to adolescents are not approved for people under 18.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Here’s a perfect example: Our private foster care agencies are so wonderful, so essential to the public good that we absolutely must get a taxpayer bailout – so we can pay damages to the huge numbers of children abused for decades in our foster homes and institutions! He called it “doublethink.” This is an industry-wide problem."

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) Two months later he was dead.

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