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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 12, 2023
adoption child abuse child welfare family preservation foster care Roxanna Asgarian We Were Once a FamilyYou probably remember the story: White adoptive parents of six black children drive themselves and the children off a cliff, killing them all.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2022
It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. The comments are all pretty much the same: There is enormous accountability in child welfare, she says, we certainly don’t need more!
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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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 2, 2022
It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. child abuse child welfare Connecticut DCF differential response family preservation family resource centers foster care Kelley Fong
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2021
The same scholar who claims predictive analytics in child welfare isn’t biased also signs on to an extremist agenda calling for an automatic, mandatory extra level of family police surveillance of thousands of impoverished families.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. Yes, families DO have Fourth Amendment rights when the family police are at the door.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in child welfare. Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
At last: A group involved in oversight of Maine child welfare that shows a real understanding of the problems. The Maine Child Welfare Advisory Panel (MCWAP) Citizen Review Panel has produced a report with six recommendations. There's some good stuff in this report.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
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. child abuse child welfare family preservation foster care GroundTruth Project journalism Mountain State Spotlight.
Famcare
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
In child and family services, the mission no longer ends at removing an endangered child from a dysfunctional household but now extends to how a Child Welfare Agency might help the child grow into a productive member of society.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 2, 2023
For decades, that’s been the excuse for keeping the massive child welfare surveillance state going: Well we should do something different, of course, and we would do something different -- if government handed us everything we need on a silver platter!
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 3, 2023
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
And, concerning solutions: So child welfare experts that I've spoken to have pointed to a few changes. Other states are as bad or worse, but, as it happens, the history of “child welfare” failure in Massachusetts is particularly well-documented.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2022
The life’s work of Barth and other well-meaning social workers who have done so much to build, maintain and expand the child welfare surveillance state has come under increasing scrutiny for the enormous harm it’s done to children.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The big national takeaway is that these data – once again – refute the racist myth about COVID-19 and “child welfare.” AFCARS child abuse child welfare family preservation foster care Iowa Kansas Missouri rate-of-removal
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
A “scholar” who insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare writes a “predictive analytics” algorithm for the State of California. KEY POINTS ?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. But one reason is the state’s child welfare “ombudsman,” Christine Alberi.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The seeds of Q-Anon and Pizzagate were planted at the McMartin preschool, then grown and nurtured by a lot of “professionals” in "child welfare" who should have known better. And in the 1980s the mainstream child welfare establishment actively promoted satanic panic.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2021
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Attention child welfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world.
Famcare
MARCH 16, 2023
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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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 19, 2022
Multiple organizations in Maine – but with the lead organizations dominated by private “providers” have put out a document they’re calling “A Framework for Child Welfare Reform” in that state. They’ve been led, or rather misled, by the state’s child welfare “ombudsman,” Christine Alberi.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.”
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2021
The fundamental fact of American “child welfare” is that if you’re not white and affluent the system will discriminate against you. That’s not unique to “child welfare” of course, but the field seems to be “in denial” about it to an extraordinary degree.)
Famcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
In the United States, there are around 328,120 child welfare employees. But, in the meanwhile, here's how child welfare agencies might better manage greater caseloads. Child Welfare human services software Family and Child Welfare
Beyond Advocacy
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
Social Work Futures
AUGUST 25, 2021
This past year, I taught a traditional social welfare policy class at my post as a social work professor at Portland State University. I incorporated a futures lens into the class and into the primary assignments.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 17, 2021
He claimed “the shutdown decision arguably amounted to a prioritizing of the welfare of certain adults over the welfare of children." Even the head of New York City’s family policing agency (a more accurate term than child welfare agency) has confirmed that the fearmongers were wrong.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 23, 2022
The former Times reporter and still their go-to guy for child welfare stories continues to soft-peddle racial bias. Perhaps Therolf fears that people are finally taking seriously the existence of systemic racial bias in child welfare.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 17, 2022
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents.
Famcare
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
In 1998, a consortium of child welfare agencies in Missouri were researching the market for web based, social services case management software. FAMCare social services software Family and Child Welfare
National Casa Gal
MARCH 28, 2023
The post Celebrating women leaders in child welfare — a message from our CEO appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children. In March we celebrate Women’s History Month, and in this month, we honor the pioneering work of the late Carmen Ray-Bettineski. Read More.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 27, 2022
Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. Massachusetts "Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides Consider the relative positions and power of two women in Massachusetts.
KVC
JULY 20, 2021
If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! The next subsidiary is KVC Kansas which provides child welfare and mental health services.
Shelter, Inc
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. The implicit biases, which we aren’t even aware of, influence the child welfare system’s disparity.
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