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NCCPR news and commentary round-up weeks ending December 3, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Tearing children from their parents because the parents are receiving medication-assisted treatment to control drug addiction doesn’t just impose enormous needless trauma on the children. In The Des Moines Register a Native American parent writes, and speaks, about her experience with the Indian Child Welfare Act.

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How the journalism of child welfare fails

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. So birth parents become, at best, nonentities, at worst those awful people their foster or adoptive parent friends told them about.

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Power, privilege, and passing judgment in “child welfare”: The Massachusetts “Child Advocate” gets it wrong again

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. And so, Mossaides concludes A decision to explore adoption for Harmony should have been pursued earlier.

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Stories of Life-Changing Connections: Mental Health Support, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption

KVC

We celebrate the inspiring ways children and adults have healed from serious challenges like strained family relationships, mental health needs, addiction, loneliness and hopelessness. The post Stories of Life-Changing Connections: Mental Health Support, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption appeared first on KVC Health Systems.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending July 11, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Somehow, however, this most essential and defining aspect of being human has been overshadowed or cast aside in the industry known as child welfare. Yet when adoptive parents want to cut children off from any and all contact with their birth parents, those birth parents usually have no recourse.

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All You Need To Know About Social Work Articles

Social Work Haven

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. Addressing substance abuse and addiction issues.

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Child Maltreatment 2023: A reduction in child maltreatment victims or a retrenchment of child protection?

Child Welfare Monitor

As in the past several years, ACF’s language suggested that child abuse and neglect are decreasing. The new report, Child Maltreatment 2023 (CM2023), provides data for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2023, which ended on September 30, 2024. ” State data indicates that child welfare agencies screened in 2.1