Beyond Advocacy

MAY 2, 2023

It is also far worse for youth with special needs, such as LGBTQ youth and youth in and aging out of foster care. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been cited as major factors in the growing problem, as has the influence of social media.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Alan Dettlaff, was invited by the Child Welfare League of America, a trade association whose members include agencies paid for each day they hold children in foster care, to write the forward for an issue of one of their journals. . ● A founder of the upEND Movement, Prof. Then CWLA refused to publish it. You can read it here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

. “Our ambition is to redesign how we look after children and young people, and eliminating private profit from the care of children is a key component of this,” said Julie Morgan, the Welsh Government’s deputy minister for social services. ” Reliance on private sector.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Katz did something simple.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Unaccompanied young people made up 21% of the children taken into care in 2022-23 (7,090 out of 33,000), more than double the proportion in 2020-21 (10%).

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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

APRIL 16, 2023

The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in foster care. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

.” Honours for directors past and present Norfolk council’s director of children’s services, Sara Tough, who guided the authority from a requires improvement rating from Ofsted in 2017 to good in 2022, was awarded an OBE for services to education and children’s social care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Great news, Missouri parents: The state Department of Social Services says you are now free to smoke marijuana, as long as you’re away from the kids! – Louis Post-Dispatch : It’s foster parents who now have this official freedom. There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of foster care.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

.” A passion for social work His positive experience is one he shares with the social workers he oversees in Derby council as its strategic director of people, a role that encompasses the statutory positions of director of children’s services (DCS) and director of adult social services (DASS).

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

There are twice as many children in kinship care in the UK than there are in foster care, yet this type of care remains largely invisible – to the public and policymakers, but often to professionals too. By Dr Lucy Peake.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The more than 700 youth interviewed were participants in the CalYOUTH Study, which evaluated the impact of extending the foster care age limit from 18 to 21 on youth outcomes in early adulthood.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2022

But unlike most such stories, this one in Billy Penn quotes those favoring a better answer: Across the country, child welfare experts have issued recommendations to reduce the number of kids in foster care by 50-percent or more because most kids in the system are not actually there for reasons of abuse.

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Famcare

AUGUST 25, 2022

FAMCare, an innovative and creative, human services-focused. Knowing the reasons that set it apart highlights the advantages it offers those individuals — the healthcare providers, caseworkers, foster care parents and countless others — who directly influence and care for the most vulnerable population in the country — children.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

While many foster and other carers do not pay tax on the payments they receive from their provider for their role due to the so-called qualifying care relief (formerly ‘foster care relief’) scheme, the benefit this provides has been frozen for 20 years.

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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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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

.” Fostering Network chief executive Kevin Williams welcomed the RCC proposals, but said: “We must learn the lessons from the past and make sure that any new regional structures enhance and improve local planning, commissioning and recruitment. “Overwhelmingly, local authorities and IFAs work well together.

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, in the American population of children, African Americans make up 15%, but they represent 33% of foster care children. Youth who identify as LGBTQ represent over 30% of those in foster care , compared with the 11.2% of children’s national population. Shelter’s executive director Carina H.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Staff know this underestimates the trauma of investigation and underestimates the even worse trauma of foster care. Though not mentioned in the report, it also underestimates the enormous risk of abuse in foster care itself.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A document from the California Department of Social Services indicates the agency was appropriately appalled by the “ethics review.” An excellent story in The Imprint reveals that, after extensive consultation with an impressive and diverse group of people, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has pulled the plug.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Vic Rayner (@vicrayner) December 31, 2022.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

APRIL 25, 2022

Since a parent struggling with addiction is likely to struggle with consistent work or even struggle to access essential social services, the child is likely to experience physical neglect. Poor attachment is likely to lead to emotional neglect.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

They were afraid of social services,” a parent with disabilities (one of the groups most vulnerable to family policing), told The Colorado Sun. ● “When my kids were growing up, they weren’t afraid of the bogeyman. People don’t think about how traumatic these investigations are for kids.”

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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. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN What is the main role of a social worker? What skills does a social worker need?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

It deters families from seeking needed assistance and weakens the capacity of teachers, doctors, and social service workers to nurture children’s well-being. She writes: Mandated reporting, therefore, drives many family caregivers from the very people who are most equipped to support them.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The premise is that because of the “shortage,” children can’t see their parents while in foster care, and families don’t get the guidance they need to jump through all the hoops they must surmount to prove themselves worthy of getting their children back. Anybody see the problem here yet? Curts get an apartment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. Sarah Font. Why had this happened?

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Famcare

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Struggling with staying on top of all of your cases? Worried that someone may fall through the cracks? Not sure how you can possibly help all of your clients achieve their best outcome?

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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. That may help explain how a tragedy like this death in foster care could occur. ● In this blog post, I suggest a better idea.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My passion is to advocate for underserved and monolingual Latinx populations, undocumented individuals, and children involved in the mental health or foster care system. This scholarship will equip me to serve and give back to my community, and eventually become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But whatever the reason, after years of marching in lockstep with the Miami Herald – ignoring wrongful removal and sometimes fomenting foster-care panic -- the Tampa Bay Times has discovered that maybe all those children don’t need to be in foster care after all!

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“These rulings are a step backward for social work, social justice and all the things we’ve been fighting for.” Some see a common effect stemming from the court’s Roe ruling last summer and its three decisions this summer.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

WFXT-TV reports that: The lawsuit, filed in Middlesex Superior Court, says the children were locked in dog crates, forced to perform sex acts, submerged in ice paths to the point of drowning and threatened with death while under the care of the [foster parents].

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As noted in yesterday’s post, about Putnam-Hornstein’s work in California, the California Department of Social Services declared that The Department believes that “universal-level risk stratification” is unethical and has no intention to use it now or in the future.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

This scholarship was established in memory of Mary Deane-Scalora, MSW, by her family to provide financial assistance to a master’s level student with demonstrated interest in working with or for the advancement of the poor in a social services agency or educational institution. The School of Social Work Ph.D.

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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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