KVC

JULY 20, 2021

Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. Many people associate KVC Kansas with foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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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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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

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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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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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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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

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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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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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

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

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 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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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

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

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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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

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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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 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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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

AUGUST 17, 2022

? Last week, we noted the stunning Atlantic cover story about the Trump Administration policy of trying to destroy families at the Mexican border. The registries do enormous harm to children by driving families deeper into poverty, and ratcheting up unwarranted suspicion that can lead to a child being needlessly thrown into foster care.

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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

JUNE 22, 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

AUGUST 10, 2022

The very fact that this story reveals so much about the sadistic glee that some in the Trump Administration seemed to take in tearing apart families makes it harder to understand one simple fact: People with only the best of intentions are doing the same thing to hundreds of thousands of children right now.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His administration used it as a justification for not returning children his administration took at the Mexican border. She was placed with non-relative foster parents shortly after birth. But also shortly after birth, her aunt and uncle, Tige and Karen Nishimoto came forward and said they wanted to adopt the girl.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

The federal government’s Administration for Children and Families, which can take six months just to clear its throat, already has an entire “information memorandum” out. The group that calls itself Children’s Rights is doing what it does best – exploiting the whole situation to collect email addresses for endless fundraising appeals.

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