NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Yesterday, in a post about “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work, I noted that Alan Detlaff of the University of Houston, who has dedicated his career to fighting racism in family policing (a more accurate term than “child welfare”) had been ousted as the Dean of the university’s Graduate College of Social Work.

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Doin' The Work

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Ronnita is also the South Florida Area Coordinator for Florida State University College of Social Work and an adjunct professor at Florida Memorial University. We discuss the child welfare system, foster care, family preservation, and various interventions that take place for children and families in this complex system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The closest thing she has to a concrete solution is no solution at all – making it easier to place Native children in hidden foster care. In South Dakota, Native Americans are 13 percent of the child population and nearly three-quarters of the foster-child population, an issue first exposed in 2010 by NPR.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

But, thanks in part to Sarah Font of the Penn State University “Child Maltreatment Solutions Network” (or, as it should be called the Penn State University Penance Institute ) , I have a new theory. She’s even right that the more time a child spends in foster care the greater the risk of harm.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Sarah Font is telling foster youth boils down to this: You can have a free college education – as long as you forego any chance that there will be a family cheering you on at graduation. After following issues involving foster care for decades, I’ve gotten used to the extent to which people in the system hate birth parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fong will be interviewed at the second of these two events sponsored by the City University of New York School of Law. Note that you need to register for each separately You can register for the first event here and the second event here.) ● The head of the family police agency in Missouri is bragging that they have reduced foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Another issue exalts the fact that one of the nation’s big residential McTreatment chains received “a grant of $7,250 to create a mentoring program for youth in foster care.” What’s striking is how monotonous these newsletters are.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The algorithm doesn’t tell investigators when to tear children from the arms of their families and consign them to foster care; that’s left to humans. Robyn Powell of the University of Oklahoma School of Law and Prof. She’s still in foster care. *-In

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

A now-defunct publication that purported to advise journalists on how to cover child welfare actually said: “Do the fatality series” – with what seemed like the implication that it should be done the usual way: by scapegoating efforts to keep families together and setting off a foster-care panic.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Tarek Ismail of the City University of New York School of Law, rebutted them in this column for the New York Daily News. ? The story also mentions, in passing, another intriguing part of the proposal: A first effort to entice states to count how many children they force into “hidden foster care.” And finally … ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Or, as bad or worse, it might go to an outfit like Chapin Hall (see the item below about whitewashing abuse in foster care). There are horrifying details about the sexual assault of two young teenagers in Texas foster care. . One is 16, the other 13. I have a blog post about it.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

An MSW graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice, Gaston oversees the Children’s Bureau and its almost $10 billion budget. He shared stories about his experiences being homeless, couch surfing, and moving from one foster care placement to the next until he eventually connected with family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 7, 2023

Robert Latham, Associate Director of the Children & Youth Law Clinic at the University of Miami linked to it on his excellent blog. 28 – The percentage of Hispanic children in Maine who will be forced into foster care at some point during their childhoods. I first learned about the study when Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As Dean of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Alan Detlaff devoted his career to fighting the racism that permeates family policing. One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. And KING5 continued to cover the story diligently. Added Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism. But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care. So I reprinted that part, in full.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

That’s just one of the findings in the new study we highlighted in yesterday's post to this Blog (a study I first read about on the excellent blog written by Robert Latham, Associate Director of the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act. Yes, second highest.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Deadric Williams of the University of Tennessee, showing him during one of his lectures – and one of the slides he uses. It provides astoundingly small amounts of cash or basic goods so children can stay home or return home because, guess what, they were taken, or are now trapped in foster care, because of poverty alone.

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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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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Matarese is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for LGBTQ+ Children and Youth in Foster Care, and the National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification funded by the Children’s Bureau.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

program at Eastern Kentucky University. She did it -- three times -- when The New York Times exposed foster care as “the new ‘Jane Crow’.” She wrote: I’m a licensed clinical social worker who spent my career in public child welfare, primarily providing foster care services. She’s a bona fide social worker.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 25, 2022

University of Michigan scholars Trina R. Sherraden stated: “Of interest to social workers, the CDA policy gives much larger deposits to foster kids and homeless kids, but also includes all newborns. Each emancipated foster youth will receive $1,000 monthly—no strings attached, guaranteeing the first statewide universal basic income.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She also said the DfE was “working to increase the number of foster care placements”, an issue whose urgency was highlighted by recent figures showing that more fostering households left the sector in England than joined in 2021-22.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of foster care.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 13, 2023

If enacted, the bill would expand state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. We will also hear from Duane Price, a young man with experience in foster care whose life was enhanced by getting a car.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. Presumably this also would rule out a large proportion of those providing kinship foster care, since they tend to be grandparents. That takes care of “permanence.”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” MacAlister also said that the proposed £25m to improve foster care recruitment and retention over the next two years would not deliver the 9,000 additional carers he said were needed over the next three years.

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inSocialWork

AUGUST 22, 2023

After earning her MSW in 2010 at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work, she has focused her career on at-risk youth. Alyssa Ernst , LMSW, is a school social worker in the Cheektowaga-Sloan Union Free School District. Stephanie is expanding and aligning administrative programs and the schools’ mental health safety teams.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Aging Out of Foster Care Every year, more than 20,000 young adults age out of the foster care system. They are between the ages of 18 and 21, some having chosen to voluntarily remain in care after 18.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

. ● A member of the Seattle Times editorial board has made a discovery : Turns out, one of the best ways to shrink foster care rolls is neither parent therapy nor drug treatment, but something much more concrete: housing. This solution, to both homelessness and foster care sounds almost ridiculously obvious. ●

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

Kristi Wood says her eyes were opened to the work of NASW when she was a student in the part-time MSW program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wood has worked in the human services and social work field for about 30 years, primarily in residential treatment, group home, and foster care environments.

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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.

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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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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

An article recently published in the journal Health & Social Work , co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press seeks to address this issue. Parents with three or more ACEs tended to use more social services related to alcohol and drug use, mental health, and foster care payments than parents with one ACE.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience. It’s called National Adoption Day.

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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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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yolanda has also worked for the Foster Care & Adoptive Services Division where she provided oversight and support to foster parents, conducted training for kinship providers, facilitated support groups, licensed kinship foster homes and relicensed foster homes.

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