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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” There are many such groups. Oh, don’t get me wrong.

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The two questions reporters covering child welfare in NYC should always ask

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. But when The Imprint asked, out came the standard-issue lie: A spokesperson for New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services told The Imprint that her agency is unable to publicly discuss individual cases.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.

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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. She also works with agencies to train staff in Motivational Interviewing. Practical Pros and Cons : AI can boost the productivity of administrative tasks and richer educational content.

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“They’re not your children anymore.” Notes on news coverage of a landmark lawsuit

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1. So the story rightly points out that For decades, class-action lawsuits have been a major vehicle for reform in child welfare systems nationwide.

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“[Like being] stopped and frisked for 60 days”: NYC family policing traumatizes kids, confuses poverty with neglect and is racially biased. Who says so? Some of their own caseworkers.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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“[It] feels like a jail cell has dropped around my family”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. said in court papers.