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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

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Kinship care is an arrangement in which children under 18 years of age who are unable to live with their parents are placed in the care of relatives, close family friends, or other people important in their lives instead of being placed in traditional foster care or group homes. What should I do?

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Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, under the Basic Center Program (BCP). Programs include emergency housing, transitional living, foster care, home visiting and clinical support services. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Shelter, Inc. Through this funding, both Shelter, Inc. Shelter Inc.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.) So now there’s another lawsuit.

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The good news: A public radio station in Kansas City talked to the right people for a "child welfare" story. The bad news: They still missed the point

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The premise is that because of the “shortage,” children can’t see their parents while in foster care, and families don’t get the guidance they need to jump through all the hoops they must surmount to prove themselves worthy of getting their children back. The story suggests counseling and pay raises for the workers.

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Child welfare lessons from New York City’s “unintended abolition”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care. Legal experts say it is particularly rare for groups of parents, such as those in the Gould case, to seek systemic changes to the investigation and surveillance process, asserting their rights before a foster care removal.

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A New York State “child welfare” agency can curb one family policing horror with the stroke of a pen. Do they have the guts?

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.) The federal suit was aimed at New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), but for complex legal reasons the issue also wound up before the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, which extended its potential impact statewide.