Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

The White House proclamation on Child Abuse Prevention Month, 2024 points to the goal for all children to live in happy and safe environments and social workers can play a vital role in helping families reach that goal.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

On the Proximity Process podcast Kathleen Creamer, Managing Attorney of the Family Advocacy Unit at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia discusses the enormous harm done to families by America’s obsession with termination of parental rights.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Two years ago, New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, commissioned a study of racism in the agency. There’s been so much news since the last round-up that I’m dividing this one up into two parts. Part two, tomorrow, is just for stories about Florida. ? ACS’ response: Don’t release the report!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

● Last week’s round-up began with the New York Times story about a landmark lawsuit against the New York City family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services. In The Grio, Shereen White, director of advocacy and policy at Children’s Rights, and Prof. The lawsuit challenges what NCCPR President Prof.

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Beyond Advocacy

OCTOBER 6, 2024

She is responsible for promoting and protecting human rights, including advocacy, investigations, and monitoring visits to places deprived of liberty. Vijayalakshmi Bidari, a career civil servant in India, brings a wealth of experience from her 20 years in the Indian Administrative Service.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

● 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. The child never needed to be taken.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

One consequence -- the fanaticism with which schools persecute families by rushing to call the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services continues to this day. And with so many more false reports and needless removals flooding the system, deaths of children “known to the system” increased.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

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 Child Welfare 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.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

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.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

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 child welfare policy is made and discussed today. David Reed, the Deputy Director of Child Welfare Services in Indiana, introduced the story of this family in his testimony.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. In this video , one of Britains foremost child welfare scholars, Prof. Its not just the United States.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Members of our profession also provide frontline services in mental health, substance use treatment, child welfare, and elder care – many of which fall under HHS programs such as Medicaid and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 1, 2025

THE CITY's outstanding examination of "mandatory reporting" (And in case anyone doubts that "child welfare" agencies like New York's Administration for Children's Services are "family police" - take a look at that car.) The domestic abuse hotline is separate from the child abuse hotline which is run by New York State.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Scores of briefings have been held by NASW, CRISP and other social work organizations running the policy gamut from child welfare to mental health research to military social work to social work and policing to school safety. Please join us for this exciting event to learn more about the ideas and work of Congresswoman Barbara Lee.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

When going up against this family police juggernaut (a more accurate term than child welfare 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.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Penelope, a child welfare worker in Texas, sees the compassion fatigue hitting her colleagues. But child welfare workers are invisible. Aisha, a social worker in the United Kingdom, has made the tough decision to leave her job in the child welfare courts. She feels guilt. I know many are less ok than her.

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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. Did the ABA apologize for its own role in supporting racially biased “child welfare” laws and initiatives? No one who reads this Blog regularly should have to ask “what connection?”)

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