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CO4Kids
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Back to Blogs Community Blog Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation click to Download information in pdf The following information is not legal advice or guidance. What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado? Will county child welfare staff follow a family protection plan?
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
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. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 31, 2024
New York’s family police agency is still harassing survivors of domestic violence and their children. In New York, it’s illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into foster care just because they “witnessed domestic violence” – typically a husband or boyfriend beating the child’s mother.
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 need housing before I can get my kids back. OK, now do we see the problem?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2023
This morning, I gave a presentation with the above title At the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Here is the text of that presentation Have you heard? CAPTA creates the modern framework for the current child welfare surveillance state.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Dorothy Roberts , who explains: “A promising trend that this lawsuit is part of is recognizing that enforcing parents’ constitutional rights is critical to an approach to child welfare that truly benefits children. Scoppetta , which curbed the practice of taking children from survivors of domestic violence prove that.
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