NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

New York City Administration for Children's Services Commissioner Jess Dannhauser Poor Jess Dannhauser. He writes: Anyone can make a report to New York State’s child abuse hotline. Dannhauser (or some flack in the ACS p.r. department) wrote a letter to the editor that regurgitated his standard excuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Here are the entry numbers from 2012 to 2020: Entries into foster care in Arizona 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 10,663 10,790 12,209 12,722 11,729 10,057 9,173 9,607 9,583 Sources: 2012 to 2019: Administration for Children and Families AFCARS database. 2020: Arizona Department of Child Safety Semi-Annual Child Welfare Reports.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Monday: Context for the new study : The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? s Child Welfare System Racist? Yesterday: ACS commissioned a study of racism in the agency.

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CO4Kids

MAY 9, 2025

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Nicole Drake receives CDHSs Public Service Recognition Award Nicole Drake, County Intermediary Administrator in the Division of Child Welfare (Office of Children, Youth and Families) received the departments Public Service Recognition Award. She is a powerhouse!

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

He researches technology and child welfare 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.,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents. “I I need housing before I can get my kids back.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare 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.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize child welfare!). Or put in a different way, the total number of cases opened for child welfare services dropped from 46,264 at the beginning of the period to 29,969 at the end–a drop of 35 percent.

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CO4Kids

APRIL 28, 2025

Back to Blogs Community Blog 2026 Annual Progress and Services Report Stakeholder Feedback The Colorado Department of Human Services Division of Child Welfare is in the final stages of writing the 2026 Annual Progress and Services Report (“APSR”) for federal submission. with any questions, concerns, or accommodations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Khadijah Abdurahman, who is both a parent with lived experience dealing with New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services – and a Tech Research Fellow at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. We begin with a photo: Check out the ads on New York City buses, from JMac For Families: ?

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The primary goal of the project is to determine whether the “Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations (BPC)”— a trauma-informed parenting intervention — is effective at promoting child, parent, and family wellbeing among underserved families at-risk for involvement with the child welfare system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Alan Dettlaff, was invited by the Child Welfare League of America, a trade association whose members include agencies paid for each day they hold children in foster care, to write the forward for an issue of one of their journals. A founder of the upEND Movement, Prof. So think carefully before you click here. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It’s all in a report commissioned by the Administration for Children’s Services itself. Yesterday: Context for the new study : The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? Emphasis in original].

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

NASW Senior Practice Associate, School Social Work and Child Welfare. It was during the Clinton Administration when then President Bill Clinton declared November National Adoption Month. Here are some resources: Requirements to Adopt a Child. November 23rd marks National Adoption Day.

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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. The post includes excellent recommendations for reform. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

Only in a system as morally bankrupt as “child welfare” could it be considered acceptable to make children pay an allowance to their substitute parents. It’s also interesting to see where the money DHS steals from foster children is going: It’s used to pay their foster parents.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

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 child welfare system’s term for reports to the state child protective services hotline.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Dorothy Roberts’ new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families -- and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World The event, sponsored by Rise, takes place April 16, and it’s available in person or online. ? This week we start with an upcoming event: The New York debut of Prof. You can register here. ?

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Administration for Children and Families Grant cooperative agreement sub-award of $300,000. This project allows us to focus on supporting families and preventing child maltreatment in our home state rather than waiting until things get to the point where the child welfare system opens a case,” says Phillips.

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CO4Kids

MAY 1, 2025

When families step up, it means children and youth have a chance to feel safe and supported in a loving home, said Joe Homlar, director of the Division of Child Welfare for CDHS. Luis, who immigrated to the United States at 11 years old, uses his background as a teacher, administrator and soccer coach to be a mentor.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

● Gothamist reports that Black communities in New York City have long said the city's child welfare agency has subjected them to an unmatched degree of scrutiny and that their families have borne the brunt of forced separations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

New data from Pennsylvania confirm: When America’s child welfare 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 4, 2023

So in Massachusetts, where you can seek an administrative hearing to fight your way out, even though the burden of proof is on you to show you are innocent, families win about half the time. DCF is now providing administrative hearings for those who appeal “substantiated concern” determinations.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Disrupting Stigma: How Understanding, Empathy, and Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Families Affect by Substance Use and Mental Disorders. Online Tutorials , for Substance Use Treatment Professionals, Child Welfare Professionals and Legal Professionals.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Commission on Civil Rights is examining racism in the New York family policing system (a more accurate term than “child welfare” system). The New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. New York’s institutional providers of family defense prepared in-depth written testimony that is a report in itself.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I have written before about how mandatory child abuse reporting laws backfire. They overload child welfare systems – or as they should be called, “family policing systems” -- with false reports and cases in which poverty is confused with neglect , stealing time from finding the few children in real danger.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The New York City Administration for Children's Services Uses Highly Coercive Tactics to Illegally Search Tens of Thousands of Families’ Homes Every Year. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

On The Imprint podcast, journalist Rebecca Nagle discusses her findings about the campaign to destroy the Indian Child Welfare Act. ? But will Oregon’s Senator Soundbite try to undercut even this progress? I have a blog post about it. ?

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 1, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Colorado Juvenile Parole Board (JPB) Seeking Applications to Fill One Public At-Large Seat The JPB is a nine-member, Type 1 transfer board, supported by staff housed in the Office of Children, Youth, and Families (OCYF) within the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS). or at 303-506-0584.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Roberts understood before anyone, that family policing – a more accurate term than “child welfare” – 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.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

This gathering, which drew child welfare administrators 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The article aptly describes the Center as a first-of-its-kind organization that intends to engage in affirmative litigation with the [Administration for Children’s Services] —hitting it with lawsuits to potentially hold it accountable for allegedly violating families’ constitutional rights via heavy-handed investigatory and removal tactics.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

And in New York, the New York City family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, still considers itself free to harass domestic violence survivors and their children by putting them under constant surveillance. So now there’s another lawsuit.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

is a child welfare agency that works to end the cycle of child abuse and neglect through comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. s programs, services, management, and administration. Shelter, Inc. Shelter, Inc. COA Accreditation evaluated all aspects of Shelter Inc.’s

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

At worst, they are ignoring those regulations and the federal Administration for Children and Families chooses to look the other way. When they fail to report these placements, states are, at best, exploiting a loophole in federal regulations.

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