Addiction Foster Care Welfare 
Child Welfare Monitor
OCTOBER 14, 2024
These two young people had something in common–a long history of neglect (and sometimes abuse) by their parents and a failure to intervene by child welfare services despite multiple reports that children were in danger. Colin Gray was ordered to retrieve the other children, or they would be placed in foster care.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
to control her addiction. A New York City mother, known in court papers as Ms. used drugs during her pregnancy. gave birth, the newborn tested positive for methadone which had been prescribed to Ms. But New York Citys family police agency, the Administration for Childrens Services, charged her with neglect. The agency didnt stop there.
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Child Welfare Monitor
JANUARY 27, 2025
But with states around the country changing law, policy and practice to reduce child welfare agencies’ footprint, the number of “child maltreatment victims” cited by ACF is likely more a reflection of policy and practice than an indicator of actual maltreatment. Exhibit S-2 summarizes the findings of the newest report.
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 26, 2024
There are two very important things to know about the process by which a child welfare agency removes a child from a parent and places that child with some other kinship caregiver. This process, known as kinship foster care, is usually the least harmful form of foster care. But it’s still foster care.
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. And that’s the key problem.
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. 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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