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by Patty Flores I am grateful to be publishing this essay by a gifted and needed young voice in the childwelfare space. in Administration of Justice from Pierce College, a B.A. Also silenced are our allies, who are shamed for wanting to pursue a career in childwelfare. Patty turned 18 years old in jail.
Back to Blogs Community Blog ChildWelfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation click to Download information in pdf The following information is not legal advice or guidance. What is the states role in overseeing childwelfare in Colorado? Will county childwelfare staff follow a family protection plan?
“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.
Back to Blogs ChildWelfare Blog DCW Updates for National Adoption Month 2024 By Shelia Dalton, Adoption Program and ICAMA Administrator November is National Adoption Month and this year’s national theme is Honoring Youth: Strengthening Pathways for Lasting Bonds.
But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of childwelfare 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.” Oh, don’t get me wrong.
NASW Senior Practice Associate, School Social Work and ChildWelfare. November 23rd marks National Adoption Day. In 1976, Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts decided to celebrate adoption for seven days in his state. On November 23, the month’s event culminates with National Adoption Day.
Maine's first childwelfare 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. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which childwelfare court hearings are open.
If you are wondering what mental health and childwelfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services. The next subsidiary is KVC Kansas which provides childwelfare and mental health services.
He researches technology and childwelfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. Practical Pros and Cons : AI can boost the productivity of administrative tasks and richer educational content. Todd Sage , Ph.D., Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,
Attention childwelfare 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. No one should be required to “be nice to people who do despicable things.”
The newest report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) showed that the number of children in foster care dropped to 368,530 on September in 2022–a drop of 5.8 Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize childwelfare!).
This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change ChildWelfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? Safety, permanency, well-being.” I am a lifelong tax-and-spend liberal and proud of it. But the family police cannot.
Here’s what you’ll find in it: PREFATORY MATERIAL Editor’s Note—Growth in Unprecedented Times, Nicolás Quaid Galván Foreword—Strengthened Bonds: Abolishing the ChildWelfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well Being, Nancy D. The full issue is here. Polikoff & Jane M. Khadijah Abdurahman In other news: ?
Whether it’s housing subsidies, child care assistance, or cash aid, there appears to be the same positive effect — reducing CPS reports. Unfortunately, the federal Administration for Children and Families hasn’t quite gotten the message. That's certainly a step forward. The post includes excellent recommendations for reform. ●
But that figure has meaning only in the context of two figures that represent earlier steps in the process, which are always discussed first in the Child Maltreatment reports. “Referrals” is the childwelfare system’s term for reports to the state child protective services hotline.
New data from Pennsylvania confirm: When America’s childwelfare establishment fearmongers predicted that COVID would bring on a “pandemic of child abuse” it was just the usual health terrorism. By 2021 even people who run family policing agencies admitted that there had been no pandemic of child abuse.
Back to Blogs ChildWelfare Blog NTDC (National Training and Development) Statewide Train-the-Trainer Training The NTDC (National Training and Development Curriculum) continues to be the preferred curriculum for certifying foster/adoptive parents in Colorado. For more information contact moinette.dickens@state.co.us.
Hey, remember when New York City schools and the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, promised that this year they wouldn’t traumatize children and families by sending caseworkers to investigate them on “educational neglect” charges just because they felt it was still unsafe to send them to in-person classes?
This gathering, which drew childwelfareadministrators and practitioners from across the nation, was a crucial platform for discussing the opportunities and challenges presented by the new, flexible licensing standards issued by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in September 2023. million views.
Roberts understood before anyone, that family policing – a more accurate term than “childwelfare” – is a reproductive justice issue. Gothamist has a story about how she raised $40,000 for an ad campaign to tell families their rights when the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, is at the door.
Bringing Innovation & ChildWelfare Best Practices. In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes.
These stories appeared just in March and April of 2023: ● In San Diego , KNSD-TV reports , A San Diego mother filed a $10 million wrongful death claim against the county last month, saying ChildWelfare Services failed her 11-year-old biological daughter, Aarabella McCormack, who died in the hospital last August. The boy wasn’t lying.
● We begin with this from The New York Times : A sweeping class-action lawsuit filed against New York City on Tuesday argues that the agency that investigates child abuse and neglect routinely engages in unconstitutional practices that traumatize the families it is charged with protecting. States call it “child support.”
The Bronx Defenders is suing New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, over such a case. And CWLA’s long-ago apology rings hollow – since they still support draconian policing laws such as the so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.)
Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal childwelfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? We begin this week not just with one story but with an entire magazine.
I had a friend encourage me to apply to KVC, to explore if social work in the childwelfare system would be a good fit. She found a job listing from KVC in her search for a career in childwelfare after graduating from college. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system.
Throughout her years with the department, she went on to work with youth in residential facilities, families involved in childwelfare, foster parents, and children and youth in foster care before moving on to supervisory and administrative roles. I also really love adoptions and that side of it too.
Among the many perverse financial incentives in family policing is the emergence of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families a program intended to help families become self-sufficient as a childwelfare slush fund. Unfortunately, the report did not find out how often parents are surrendering adopted children.
This request for information comes from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Administration on Children and Family (ACF) to inform internal policy decisions. Suppose you know someone whose benefits were confiscated while in foster care.
This rule change will clarify actions required by county childwelfare staff and enhance Colorados ChildWelfare response to the unregulated custody transfer of children and youth. The purpose of the rule work is to align Colorado’s rule and practice with the requirements of Colorado House Bill 23-1157.
OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than childwelfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted.
? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.
This side of the childwelfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.
26) 1:00 pm ET: Movement for Family Power is sponsoring a teach-in on Resisting the Family Police: Fourth Amendment Challenges and Possibilities NOVEMBER 2, 2:00 pm ET: Family Integrity and Justice Works kicks off a National Campaign to Address the Harms Caused by Adoption and Safe Families Act: Reimaging Permanency.
--All you had to do was read between the lines to see that when New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, claimed if favored letting families they investigate know their rights, they were lying. Now, thanks to some great reporting by ProPublica, you no longer need to read between the lines.
But today’s post focuses on one particularly jarring vignette–the story of a mother, her seven children, and a van–and what it means about how childwelfare policy is made and discussed today. David Reed, the Deputy Director of ChildWelfare Services in Indiana, introduced the story of this family in his testimony.
Stories from WFAA-TV and KDFW-TV answer that question: ● In 2022, the Kentucky family police took away a child from grandparents who just needed help to handle his behavioral problems. In 2024, the Kentucky family police agency took away a child whose adoptive parents just needed help to cope with her behavioral problems.
Tyrone Howard et al, Beyond Blind Removal: Color Consciousness and Anti-Racism in Los Angeles County ChildWelfare. On first reading, the evaluation looks like evidence that the pilot failed to reduce disproportional Black representation in childwelfare.
When going up against this family police juggernaut (a more accurate term than childwelfare system) families often are almost literally defense-less because their lawyers often have so little time and so many clients. One county court administrator explained that countys refusal this way: [T]he system we have works well.
6, 2021 insurrection have prompted a lot of talk about “reputation laundering” as former Trump Administration officials try to distance themselves from the president they served so faithfully – the most notable example: former Attorney General William Barr. Real childwelfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ?
That’s the current name of a childwelfare trade association that co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. Yet none of the recent trips to the reputation laundry from childwelfare establishment groups includes support for any proposal that would reduce their power.
This is the text of the second of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change ChildWelfare I’m going to spend a lot of time criticizing things people said and did in the past. Call that whatever else you’d like, but please don’t call it hindsight.
The childwelfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. The childwelfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. We have always been at war with Eurasia.”
6, 2021 insurrection have prompted a lot of talk about “reputation laundering” as former Trump Administration officials try to distance themselves from the president they served so faithfully – the most notable example: former Attorney General William Barr. Real childwelfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ?
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