NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Nearly 15% of Native American children, nearly 15% of Hispanic children and nearly 20% of Black children will be placed in foster care, according to the study. In fact, Arizona has been in foster-care panic mode for most of the past 20 years – a national record. times higher than the rate in New York City.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The study found that when COVID-19 forced the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, to step back and community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up, the trauma of needless investigation and foster care was significantly reduced, with no compromise of safety.

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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. It’s not like the state can’t afford to step in and provide this money.

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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

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. ? The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”)

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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. I have a blog post about her powerful story in Logic Magazine. with panelists Prof.

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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

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. One is 16, the other 13. The post includes excellent recommendations for reform. ●

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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. Then CWLA refused to publish it.

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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. Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted from Foster Care.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

According to Virginia Public Media : Avula noted Virginia’s rate of placement with relatives is less than half of the national average — a statistic he said is skewed by the fact that local social services departments in the state prioritize informal placements with relatives before sending a child into the foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in foster care. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

● Want to see how easy it is for the foster care system to become the ultimate middle-class entitlement – step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own? One of the victims in the case endured sexual abuse that led to a 30-year prison sentence for a former foster father in 2017.

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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

JULY 4, 2023

And the listing increases the odds that, even if the children weren’t thrown into foster care this time, it will happen if the family is reported again – because the listing raises suspicions, whether it’s the guess of a human caseworker or a computer algorithm raising a family’s “risk score.”

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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. They don’t call it that, of course, they call it “child support.” You can register here. ?

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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

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. Then came the corollary: Sure, you can’t see the pandemic of child abuse now – but just you wait until we get back to normal!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

So, what did the Herald write when something remarkably similar happened in foster care? So, what did the Herald write when something remarkably similar happened in foster care? On The Imprint podcast, journalist Rebecca Nagle discusses her findings about the campaign to destroy the Indian Child Welfare Act. ?

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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

JULY 31, 2024

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. New York’s family police agency is still harassing survivors of domestic violence and their children.

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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. Now, more children will get the opportunity to live with relatives.

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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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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 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

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 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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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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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. 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.

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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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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 had a friend encourage me to apply to KVC, to explore if social work in the child welfare system would be a good fit.

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Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

by Patty Flores I am grateful to be publishing this essay by a gifted and needed young voice in the child welfare space. She spent half of her life in foster care, struggling with substance abuse. in Administration of Justice from Pierce College, a B.A. They argue that foster care is not the answer.

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KVC

JANUARY 11, 2024

While foster care can be a crucial safety net for children and families in challenging circumstances, we at KVC know how important it is to help families stay together. Foster care prevention and family preservation services help families remain intact, allowing children to grow and thrive! foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Gothamist has real news about what should be called fake Miranda rights – the notices that New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, will give parents when ACS caseworkers pound on their doors.

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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. You may think you know all about the evil - and that is the word -- inflicted on Native American children by the Child Welfare League of America – but now please read this from The New York Times.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

And again, Black children are hit hardest, taken into foster care at a rate 50% above their rate in the Indiana child population. The problem with this is the problem that has plagued America’s entire war against child abuse for decades: Every time we take a swing at “bad parents” the blow lands on their children.

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