NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

● 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. As The Imprint points out in this two-part series, it also happens to be illegal.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

But with a drastic drop in foster care placements in Texas, there is reason to fear that maltreatment fatalities increased rather than decreased. Plans of Safe Care are voluntary plans offered to the families of substance-exposed infants under the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA).

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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 received many entries to our 2021 Story Contest.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

If you’re wealthy enough and powerful enough, you can be praised to the skies for your courage in admitting you were addicted to booze and pills, and even establish a celebrity rehab center. I know my mom struggled with addiction, but I was always in a clean home with clean clothes," she said. "I She's doing amazing," she said.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Child Welfare League of America, a trade association for public and private family policing agencies, many of which are paid for each day they hold a child in foster care, called CAPTA “foundational to the country’s ability to prevent child abuse and neglect.” Nah, just kidding. maybe it’s poverty, but it’s not just poverty.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

In child welfare, we all say the same things, but we all mean different things by what we say: Nobody ever says: “I think foster care should be the first resort!” Because even if Maine had all the help families need, in the current climate of foster-care panic , caseworkers are going to be afraid to use it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. Parents who lose their children to foster care, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. Maria Mossaides is a woman of enormous power and privilege. What can we conclude from this?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

A committee of the Texas legislature heard from former foster youth , including a 14-year-old who had been taken away because of her mother’s drug use – even though, when she relapsed, her mother already had placed the youth and her siblings in the safe home of a friend. "I Her experience in foster care was far worse. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

That includes meth and heroin addicts, but also hundreds of marijuana users and even some people who didn’t know they were pregnant. As AL.com explains: Alabama boasts a decade-long wave of criminal cases against new mothers, arrests that have touched more than a thousand women accused of using drugs while pregnant.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

Just last year Report for America fellows wrote more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia, which tears apart families at one of the highest rates in America. But until very recently, with rare exceptions, the response in American newsrooms has ranged from indifference to hostility.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In The Hill, Dr. Ruchi Fitzgerald, a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s Legislative Advocacy Committee, explains the enormous harm done by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to children of mothers with substance use disorder – by driving those mothers away from help. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

The study makes no reference to high scores meaning the subject’s parents are “Addicts, Alcoholics, Mentally Ill, Violent, Criminal, Deadbeats.” Because that’s what the adverse childhood experience of a child abuse investigation is really all about (except, of course, the toxic environment would be foster care, not a carcinogen factory).

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

At that time, she learned three of her students, who she had always considered a ray of sunshine, would be leaving to go to a foster care placement in Denver. She and her husband Aaron decided to become a kinship foster care placement for the sibling group, helping them maintain connections with friends, family and their community.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

He’s jailed and his son is thrown into foster care. The boy dies in foster care just two weeks later. She had a similar addiction to painkillers – and to booze as well. . ● In Arizona, a father takes too many painkillers so he can work to raise his diabetic son. But nobody took away her children. ●

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Partnerships with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Department of Children and Families, and the Office of Early Childhood have led to an increase in both scholarly output and funding that will benefit individuals, families, and communities – particularly those representing marginalized groups.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Among those who understand this are the former director of the federal Children’s Bureau, Jerry Milner, and his Special Assistant, David Kelly. . There’s more about the harm of turning in substance-using mothers to the family police in this overview from Scientific American. The article cites multiple experts including Miriam S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But whatever the reason, after years of marching in lockstep with the Miami Herald – ignoring wrongful removal and sometimes fomenting foster-care panic -- the Tampa Bay Times has discovered that maybe all those children don’t need to be in foster care after all!

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Other Behavioral Issues Adopted children, whether from birth parents or the foster care system, may exhibit behavioral issues as they adjust to their new family dynamics.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Chief executive Anna Feuchtwang also welcomed the DfE’s intention to “rebalance the system towards early support for families so they can overcome problems like mental health, domestic violence and addiction, and provide stable and supportive environments for their children to grow up in.”

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Counsellor : They provide counselling and emotional support to individuals and families facing a wide range of challenges, including mental health issues, addiction, and crisis situations. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

I grew up with two parents struggling with addiction but refused to let it define me, and I want to help other children beat the odds as well. My passion is to advocate for underserved and monolingual Latinx populations, undocumented individuals, and children involved in the mental health or foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Children can be held in foster care for months before a court ever decides if the child was, in fact, abused or neglected. The story in question is about the fact that foster youth are trapped in psychiatric hospitals and juvenile jails because the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has no place to put them.

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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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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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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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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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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

Following graduation, I intend to work with vulnerable populations, particularly those who are homeless or housing insecure and those with addictions. Upon graduation, my goal is to work with The Department of Children and Families and continue to work with children in foster care and help aid sibling reunification.

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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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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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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

The mother had an addiction to pills that turned into a heroin habit (A condition somewhat similar to that certain other Ford who, instead of being turned in, was treated by media as a hero – but I digress.) Oddly, for a story discussing racial bias, they chose a white mother.) That happened to Ms. Ford when her first child was born.

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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. From KABC-TV, Los Angeles : A story about a civil lawsuit filed by victims of horrific abuse both in their own home and then in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This addict also had serious mental health issues. Pridefully progressive Vermont tears apart families and sends children off to the hell of foster care at a rate that would make Donald Trump blush proud: the second-highest rate in America, more than quadruple the national average, when rates of child poverty are factored in.

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