NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. There are horrifying details about the sexual assault of two young teenagers in Texas foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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?

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Children are staying longer in the care system due to inequalities in payments to kinship carers, a report has found. However, there was a far smaller rise in the number of children leaving kinship foster care for an SGO over this time, with this figure rising by 10%, from 2,270 to 2,500 over this time.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As it happens, another part of this group's approach is the blue pinwheel imagery that Pennsylvania's family policing agency was only too glad to adopt for its report cover.) I heard it from the leader of a group that admits to having practiced it. They say they've stopped.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. Now, more children will get the opportunity to live with relatives.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

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. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare 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.

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Relias

MAY 21, 2025

This article explores practical strategies that providers and organizations can adopt to advance behavioral health equity. From addressing stigma and using trauma-informed care to adapting assessments and integrating services, each approach centers on meeting the unique needs of diverse populations.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

In its commentary in Child Maltreatment 2017 (CM2017), New Jersey attributed the one-year drop in children with substantiated dispositions from FFY 2016 to FFY2017 to a revised disposition model it adopted in April 2013.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

KVC case managers Victoria Clark, Dalton Shump, and Micah McEwan all work for the Olathe, Kansas office, where they coordinate and support the day-to-day needs of children and teens in foster care and their families. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system. Dalton Shump.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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. And the Indiana Capital Chronicle reports that Advocates say overmedication of children in foster care still a problem.

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Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

She spent half of her life in foster care, struggling with substance abuse. in Administration of Justice from Pierce College, a B.A. Youth with lived experiences in foster care face countless challenges, even when the abuse finally stops – one way or another. They argue that foster care is not the answer.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

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.)

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“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.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Throughout her years with the department, she went on to work with youth in residential facilities, families involved in child welfare, 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It’s practically the slogan of everyone in the family policing establishment, from the federal government’s Administration for Children and Families to the smallest county family police agency. Safety, permanency, well-being.” We hear family police agencies even claiming they want a “child and family well-being system.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The lawsuit says that investigators for the Administration for Children’s Services deceive and bully their way into people’s homes, where they rifle through families’ most private spaces, strip-search children and humiliate parents. So they used a blackmail placement – aka hidden foster care. States call it “child support.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, desperately wants to keep it that way. Last month, two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Khadijah Abdurahman In other news: ? Not one of those words came from a birth parent.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

In 2024, the Kentucky family police agency took away a child whose adoptive parents just needed help to cope with her behavioral problems. 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare 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. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

The actual evidence of the inherent harm of foster care and the high rate of abuse in foster care is so overwhelming, that all they can do is try to distract us with horror stories. She was placed with foster parents who adopted her. The foster parent was sentenced to 94 years in jail. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

? 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? The company that makes and sells the particular predictive analytics software that, as the column above documents, failed disastrously, also used to be in charge of foster care in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas County, Florida.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What this longtime administrator is saying is that the oppressed must always be nice to their oppressors. And we wound up with hideous laws like the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. You’re shaming and blaming! That’s just another form of oppression. The result: The family preservation movement almost niced itself to death.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Time is running out to submit comments to the Federal Register regarding Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments that representative payees receive for children and youth in foster care. The money is used to reimburse states for the cost of foster care, a practice restricted by federal law.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. Oregons governor wants to loosen regulations curing abuse in foster care because they cant think of any other way to deal with a so-called shortage of placements.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One of those two things has now prompted the Biden Administration to propose regulations to curb this practice. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. In 2021 ProPublica published a superb expose of this practice. Sarah Font. But she did not see her mother. Why had this happened?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As the trade journal The Imprint reported: “I’m happy to say we really haven’t seen any indicators” of an increase in undetected child abuse, Commissioner of the Administration for Children’s Services David Hansell told the City Council. Then I know [no one] will ever be able to put us in a foster home again.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

--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.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into foster care.” There is something strange about this example.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

One reform proposal–known as “blind removal”–seemed blessedly simple: just hide the race and ethnicity of a child being considered for placement in foster care, and racial differences in child removal will disappear. Responses to a survey of workers and administrators provided little evidence of positive change.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

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 child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

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. CAPTA isn’t the only part of Social Current’s agenda that belies Templeman’s rhetoric.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

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. Consider the first of three recent examples. But CWLA is “the field.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

During the final days of the Vietnam War, Americans grabbed hundreds of Vietnamese "orphans" and flew them out of their country for adoption in the United States. The babies were flown to America (except for one plane which crashed, killing hundreds) where they were adopted by U.S. But many of them were not orphans.

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