NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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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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. As a child, she reported drug use in her home to the child welfare agency with the hope it would improve her situation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A grandmother who waged a grueling fight for her – and the white stranger-care parents who tried to keep the child by playing the bonding card. The grandmother won, but, The Imprint reports , the stranger-care parents are among those challenging the law that made the victory possible: The Indian Child Welfare Act. ?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

But today’s post focuses on one particularly jarring vignette–the story of a mother, her seven children, and a van–and what it means about how child welfare policy is made and discussed today. David Reed, the Deputy Director of Child Welfare Services in Indiana, introduced the story of this family in his testimony.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. In this video , one of Britains foremost child welfare scholars, Prof. Its not just the United States.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

--All you had to do was read between the lines to see that when New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, claimed if favored letting families they investigate know their rights, they were lying. Now, thanks to some great reporting by ProPublica, you no longer need to read between the lines.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

Tyrone Howard et al, Beyond Blind Removal: Color Consciousness and Anti-Racism in Los Angeles County Child Welfare. On first reading, the evaluation looks like evidence that the pilot failed to reduce disproportional Black representation in child welfare.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MAY 1, 2025

Melanie Sage, PhD, LCSW, owns Sage Training and Consulting, where she trains agencies and their staff to incorporate evidence-based practices in social services, including trauma-informed motivational interviewing, technology, and other best practices.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His administration used it as a justification for not returning children his administration took at the Mexican border. That would make the Nishimotos the ones who truly are giving meaning to the term “best interests of the child.” A mong the many who done it: Donald Trump. Still, at least there’s no hypocrisy there.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 1, 2025

THE CITY's outstanding examination of "mandatory reporting" (And in case anyone doubts that "child welfare" agencies like New York's Administration for Children's Services are "family police" - take a look at that car.) The domestic abuse hotline is separate from the child abuse hotline which is run by New York State.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Her plea is that the agency that wrecked her family, New York Citys Administration for Childrens Services, not respond to the latest horrifying child abuse deaths by rushing to investigate more families and take away more children. Dorothy Roberts discusses the harm in an interview for Current Affairs. NCCPR Board Member Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

One doctor interviewed by THE CITY described an incident in which a patients mother was reported by a teacher, who had mistaken a rash for a bruise. That led to investigators strip-searching the childs body and aggressively questioning the mother in front of her child, leaving the mother in tears. But thats what happening.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2022

? Last week, we noted the stunning Atlantic cover story about the Trump Administration policy of trying to destroy families at the Mexican border. Did the ABA apologize for its own role in supporting racially biased “child welfare” laws and initiatives? No one who reads this Blog regularly should have to ask “what connection?”)

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AUGUST 10, 2022

Dickerson’s masterpiece of in-depth reporting on the Trump Administration’s policy of family separation at the Mexican border is that good. It took 18 months of reporting, more than 150 interviews, and a lawsuit to obtain relevant documents. But it’s also, to use that awful word from blurbs about thrillers: unputdownable.

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