Administration Advocacy Foster Care 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2021
So the public was primed to scapegoat family preservation when Nixzmary Brown died in January, 2006 – leading to a foster-care panic , a sharp sudden increase in the number of children torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. The panic was welcomed by the Times.
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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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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 15, 2023
Font and Putnam-Hornstein have been brought in by that other bastion of the child welfare establishment, Chapin Hall, to advise them on a study that amounts to a whitewash of abuse in foster care. As for taking away children, Putnam-Hornstein has said "it is possible we don’t place enough children in foster care or early enough.”
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. For one, their kids were placed with relatives after a brief stint in foster care, allowing them to regularly see Clarence and Cal. ACS’ response: Don’t release the report!
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. Instead, she said, she was placed with a foster family.
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. The child never needed to be taken.
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