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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

So why is it that some of the poorest rural counties in the country – which are also majority populations of color – have some of the lowest rates of child maltreatment reporting? . In this episode, guest Dr. Brenda Smith examines the topic of inequities among states and counties in child maltreatment reporting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

It was followed by a systematic campaign of forced adoption into white homes, spearheaded by, among others, the Child Welfare League of America. For more on this topic see NCCPR’s summary of expert testimony and the outstanding reporting of USA Today Network Florida journalists. ? Foster-care panic is like a fire.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

Dorothy Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of NCCPR’s Board of Directors, just wrote a book called Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. But that’s her second book on the topic.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Most people, but apparently not one chapter of that most sacred cow in child welfare Court-Appointed Special Advocates. It’s also something that anyone involved with that most sacred cow of child welfare – Court-Appointed Special Advocates -- needs to know.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Remember all those scare stories about how, because COVID-19 prevented overwhelmingly white disproportionately middle-class “mandated reporters” from constantly having their “eyes” on children who are neither, their parents would unleash upon their own children a “pandemic of child abuse” ? million Black children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

The comment is part of an in-depth examination of mandatory child abuse reporting laws in Colorado – which are pretty much like the laws everywhere else. It is the most thorough, most nuanced story I’ve seen on this topic anywhere in the country. ● With the Indian Child Welfare Act facing a challenge before the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

But i nstead of getting more money directly into the hands of poor families, they’re going to give up to $10 million over five years to some consultant or other – to teach mandatory reporters and child abuse hotline operators how to stop confusing poverty with neglect! file: In removal-happy Colorado, apparently so.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Some might say it depicts a dystopian future child welfare surveillance state. There’s also a right way and a wrong way to report on the use of “predictive analytics” in child welfare. ? I’ve never before led with a review of a novel, but Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers is no ordinary novel.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Dorothy Roberts’ new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families -- and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World The event, sponsored by Rise, takes place April 16, and it’s available in person or online. But as NPR’s excellent reporting on this topic makes clear, the law has plenty of wiggle room.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Most people, but apparently not one chapter of that most sacred cow in child welfare Court-Appointed Special Advocates. It’s also something that anyone involved with that most sacred cow of child welfare – Court-Appointed Special Advocates -- needs to know.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

am proud to serve on a special committee of the Philadelphia City Council examining the child welfare system in that city. One of our recommendations is to abolish mandatory child abuse reporting – something that would be in line with decades of research showing that mandatory reporting backfires. It’s one of the topics Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

In fact, given that the child welfare establishment has no shame, expect the usual op-eds to have token boilerplate statements about racial justice – even as they propose making a profoundly racist family policing system even bigger and more powerful. The problem of child abuse is serious and real, but the solutions have been phony.

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

I often think that the “future of government” contains within it a variety of positive and negative scenarios… here’s a new report/interview exploring that topic with researcher Suzette Brooks Masters, and here’s the actual report on the future of democracy that is discussed. This is an important read.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Abolishing such laws was one of the topics at the recent UpEND Movement virtual conference. On The Imprint podcast, journalist Rebecca Nagle discusses her findings about the campaign to destroy the Indian Child Welfare Act. ? One useful step toward ending that kind of harassment would be to abolish mandatory reporting laws.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

In fact, given that the child welfare establishment has no shame, expect the usual op-eds to have token boilerplate statements about racial justice – even as they propose making a profoundly racist family policing system even bigger and more powerful. The problem of child abuse is serious and real, but the solutions have been phony.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 20, 2022

Guess what the topic was on Sunday. ? In child welfare – and journalism – apparently, yes. ? ? The Washington Post Outlook section describes its weekly “Five Myths” feature as “ challenging everything you think you know.” It reveals what all such agencies have been all along.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s one of the most common knee-jerk assumptions in family policing, (AKA “child welfare”): A parent with a drug problem can’t possibly raise a child – and any parent who relapses has “chosen” drugs over her children. The age at which pure “expressed wishes representation” should begin is a topic for reasonable debate.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Using an intersectionality framework, the authors bring together previously fragmented research into this population and explain through case studies the topics particularly relevant to South Asians, including domestic violence, mental health, parenting, gender and sexual orientation, workplace barriers, and aging.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Even when a child isn’t taken, the trauma inflicted by the child welfare surveillance state is huge. “In That’s why those who want to sell the idea in New York City were desperate to stack the deck at what was billed as a virtual “examination” of the topic. The picture is even uglier than you think. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But, as so often happens, because family policing agencies prey on the poor, it also became an account of how the so-called child welfare system makes everything worse. Now it’s a book: Invisible Child, published today by Random House. It is a must-read for anyone concerned about race, poverty, and child welfare.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples. Currently, about 5.4

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

But I should explain at the top why this commentary is on a blog about the “child welfare” system. AFA’s members include some of the most strident supporters of tearing apart more families and some of those deepest in denial about racism in child welfare. She also condemned the Indian Child Welfare Act.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. I single these stories out not because they are exceptionally awful - there’s far worse out there - but precisely because they are so typical of the journalism of child welfare. Hard to imagine, especially now, isn’t it?

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

By reading the latest research, social work articles, books, and other materials related to social work topics, you can stay up-to-date with current trends in the field while also gaining a better understanding of how to apply theories and techniques in practice. What topics are covered in social work articles? Social Work Quotes.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

In addition, simulations often cover a range of topics such as child welfare home visits, assessment skills, and interprofessional teamwork. The goal of a simulation is to offer students an alternative or mock situation of a real one to meet specific learning outcomes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The topic: “Someone Called 911 Because My Kids Were Outside!” ? Speaking of the present-day normal in family policing, attorney Diane Redleaf, author of They Took the Kids Last Night will be talking to Lenore Skenazy, founder of Let Grow at this webinar on February 17. Family policing systems have a way of co-opting and perverting good ideas.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

They even acknowledged their own role in “contributing to racism in the legal field” in general and “within the child welfare legal field in particular…” Offhand, I can’t think of an organization that says “establishment” more than the American Bar Association. The topic is “anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.”

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Relias

JANUARY 23, 2023

Lastly, the survey asked whether respondents’ organizations currently offered or needed more training around the topic of PPD. They might have felt that PPD is an important issue and therefore were more likely to conduct PPD screening and seek training on the topic.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In back-to-back interviews on public radio’s Here and Now , the head of the agency gives his spin – and then Joyce McMillan of JMAC for Families tells the real story to anchor Deepa Fernandes, who, by the way, has done some excellent reporting of her own on this topic. ●

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Social Work Synergy

APRIL 15, 2020

They work in child welfare agencies where the work is so sensitive that they avoid talking about it. Before I became a social work professor, I did casework in hospitals, child welfare agencies, crisis hotlines, and in the Veteran’s Administration. Another student sends me an apologetic email.

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Relias

JUNE 22, 2022

Question #3: Are there any other key players besides parents that professionals should keep in a child’s “circle” regarding the topic of co-parenting? When Extended Family Become Co-Parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

We begin with publication of a landmark book about homelessness poverty and, therefore, inevitably, the family policing system: Invisible Child by New York Times reporter Andrea Elliott. Elliott adapted one part of her book into a New York Times Magazine cover story. I have a blog post about the book and the cover story.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Improving College Outcomes for Foster Care Youth In a study published by the Journal of Public Child Welfare, Assistant Professor of Social Work Nate Okpych investigated how a federal law increasing the foster care age limit might affect postsecondary outcomes for foster care youth. “A

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But, particularly when it comes to substance use, some of these courts exist where so much of the child welfare establishment does, at the intersection of ignorance and arrogance. The Imprint’s weekly podcast features a fascinating interview with Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child. ?

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Relias

JANUARY 31, 2023

Table of contents: Getting buy-in for ABA parent training How to train your clients’ parents and caregivers Topics to teach parents and caregivers How to evaluate the effectiveness of your ABA parent training Getting buy-in for ABA parent training Family involvement has a major positive impact on the success of any ABA program.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

Khadijah Abdurahman speaking at a virtual panel on predictive analytics in “child welfare” in New York City. Abdurahman reminds us that when asked about predictive analytics in child welfare, Carrion replied: “It scares the hell out of me… I think about how we are impacting and infringing on people’s civil liberties,” she replied.

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