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“[Like being] stopped and frisked for 60 days”: NYC family policing traumatizes kids, confuses poverty with neglect and is racially biased. Who says so? Some of their own caseworkers.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

ACS’ response: Don’t release the report! It turns out that many of the agency’s own employees agree, according to a racial equity audit the agency commissioned but never publicly released. It’s all in a report commissioned by the Administration for Children’s Services itself. So JMACForFamilies is taking on the task!

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The New York Times rediscovers wrongful removal, class bias and racial bias in child welfare – and gets a lot right. But the story is marred by some glaring errors.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It turns out that many of the agency’s own employees agree, according to a racial equity audit the agency commissioned but never publicly released. There was the powerful lead: For decades, Black families have complained that the city’s child welfare agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, is biased against them.

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Reflections and Takeaways from reading Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel’s book, The Genesis Machine

Social Work Futures

All of them stretched my sensibilities about “what is here” and “what is coming” by way of synthetic biology and the potential impact on things social workers care about: well-being, equity, human rights and more. Whether engineered organisms should be planted, farmed, and released into the wild?

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UK care homes: how to pay the fees without going broke

The Guardian

Residential care can cost tens of thousands of pounds a year. Here’s how to find a home you can afford Jim Kirby was a cautious saver all his life, but now aged 84 he is nearly broke because of £86,400-a-year care home fees and an exhausting battle to get the state to make a contribution.

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A Networked Approach to Racial Justice

Social Work Synergy

Our Racial Justice Network is a cooperative, pluralist approach to cultivating racial equity in our academic programs, research agendas, administrative policies, and informal culture. Some schools may be completely devoid of anyone doing anything to promote equity and justice. We may raise money another way. Why a Network.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Another important book was released in 2023. Font’s money-trumps-love theory isn’t working out too well. ● RANSOM ● Although family police agencies call it “child support,” when you take someone’s child and make the parents pay money to get the child back, the proper term for that money is – ransom.