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Why “permanency” is the “creme” of child welfare (and other problems with a new "report" from Charles Murray’s favorite think tank).

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

And even when the adoption lasts, Sankaran and Church remind us One survey showed that only 41% of children over six adopted out of foster care expressed having a very warm and close relationship with their adoptive parent. Should we all really be like West Virginia? That may be “permanency” but it sure as hell isn’t permanence.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 13, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

And after the family was reunited: Even after they were returned, the kids have displayed signs of trauma: the couple’s now-six-year-old son begs his mother “please don’t them come back and take us.” According to Hawaii News Now Prosecutors say Geanna’s death was “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity.”

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 20, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● There’s Another outstanding installment in the series from ProPublica and NBC News, documenting the enormous harm family policing does to children. There’s a special focus on West Virginia, which is both the child removal capital of America and the termination capital of America. This is a story West Virginia media have not touched.

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NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending February 20, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As you read it please keep in mind that New York City’s system actually is less horrible than most others. Some of the issues in the New York class action also arise in three individual lawsuits in South Carolina. So wherever you are, it’s probably worse.

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News Items – April 27, 2023

Social Workers Speak

” Bonnie Landwehr is a member of NASW-IL: Farmers talk stressors, coping methods Shaw Local News Network Hulsizer, along with his wife, Liz, joined Kankakee County Farm Bureau President Greg St. Rebecca Arredondo Yazzie is a member of NASW-OR: Clinical Social Worker to Be Ore.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending October 20, 2021

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Khadijah Abdurahman In other news: ? New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, desperately wants to keep it that way. THE CITY reports on a fight in the New York City Council over whether ACS will continue to be able to run roughshod over families. ?

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News Items – June 17, 2022

Social Workers Speak

The West Virginia Daily News. NASW West Virginia believes every child has the right to safely attend school and every teacher has the right to do their job without fear of, or anxiety over becoming a victim of gun violence. US News & World Report. Oswego County Business. MindBodyGreen.