All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2025

Child Protective Services (CPS): Research the contact information for the local CPS office or child welfare agency. Counseling and Therapy Individual Therapy Professional therapists specialized in trauma and abuse can provide survivors with a safe and confidential space to process their experiences.

Self-harm 52

Self-harm Advocacy Psychology Engagement 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

For those on it, it is alleged, this state will rely on a network of informers to plunder confidential records and spy on any mother they deem high risk. Unfortunately, as The Imprint reports, during its final days, the Biden Administration withdrew regulations that would have done just that. ProPublica reported on it in 2021.

Foster Care 79

Foster Care Self-harm Child Welfare Confidentiality 79

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

All I ask is that you keep our conversations here confidential, to respect other peoples’ privacy. I applied for at least 50 jobs there, both at my administrative level and below it. I told him that unemployment payments felt like going on “welfare,” something I had been brought up to avoid at all costs. I only have one request.”

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.

Child Welfare 109

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Confidentiality 109

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. Thats why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case.

Child Welfare 111

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Domestic Violence 111

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.

Child Welfare 40

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 40

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Penelope, a child welfare worker in Texas, sees the compassion fatigue hitting her colleagues. But child welfare workers are invisible. Aisha, a social worker in the United Kingdom, has made the tough decision to leave her job in the child welfare courts. She feels guilt.

Social Worker 130

Social Worker Child Welfare Justice and Corrections Confidentiality 130

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.

Child Welfare 109

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 109