NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

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. Among those who understand this are the former director of the federal Children’s Bureau, Jerry Milner, and his Special Assistant, David Kelly. .

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

We celebrate the inspiring ways children and adults have healed from serious challenges like strained family relationships, mental health needs, addiction, loneliness and hopelessness. Teen Brother and Sister Follow Different Paths After Foster Care. We’re So Thankful We Said Yes to Fostering Teens!’:

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

Some states explicitly reported that their screening changes were adopted in order to decrease the number of screened in referrals. Kentucky reported adopting a new SDM screening tool designed to decrease the number of referrals that are “incorrectly accepted for investigation.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in foster care on any given day -- is even worse. She said no.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

Volunteer your time to organizations such as KVC Health Systems or Prevent Child Abuse, either through parenting support classes, drug abuse prevention and treatment programs or foster care support events. Educate yourself and others on how to prevent child abuse. Mentor a child.

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All For Kids

MARCH 12, 2025

They are more likely to end up in poverty or drop out of school, become addicted to drugs, have a child out of wedlock, or end up in prison. You can volunteer, become a mentor , get involved in foster care, coach a sports team, attend a father-daughter dance as a father figure, or help connect kids to positive male role models.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

By Deron Snyder The high court issued three rulings in June 2023 — on affirmative action, same-sex couples and student loan cancellation — that have the potential to disproportionately harm minority and disadvantaged groups. The impact on social workers and clients will be substantial.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Addictions to cocaine are more expensive to maintain, "so the parents' attention is focused on getting the drug, and the dependency itself consumes their time," [the study co-author] said. In Phoenix Arizona, 20% of all Black children will be torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

--Another group afraid to seek help because of justified fear of the family police is pregnant women with substance use issues, As NBC News reports: That's why a growing number of experts — including maternal/fetal specialists, federal health officials and people who treat addiction — are calling for changes to the laws. "We

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Multicultural family embraces new experiences together Three years ago Victoria was working as a technology teacher at a school in Colorado Springs when she learned three of her students who had always been “a ray of sunshine” in her day would be leaving to go to a foster care placement in Denver.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

On August 24, 2024, the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) proudly announced in a press statement that it had reduced the number of children in out-of-home care by nearly half since 2018. Specifically, the number of children in foster care had fallen from 9,171 in 2018 to 4,971 as of August 14, 2024.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, its also safer. The headline on the story is: White West Virginia couple accused of adopting Black children and forcing them to work as slaves.

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