NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It was how the Reagan Administration explained away the explosion in homelessness that followed draconian cuts to social programs. In fact, backers of this measure on the left-leading New York City Council are embracing a right-wing narrative: that homelessness supposedly is the fault of the homeless – they’re all mentally ill, you know!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Getting down to cases The story begins this way: Shayla Curts, 22, had been living at Newhouse KC, a domestic violence shelter in Kansas City, Missouri, for several months after the birth of her second child. She said it gave her a safe place to breast feed her infant and care for her 4-year-old while trying to get back on her feet.

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Relias

JANUARY 16, 2023

Perhaps more unfortunately, many abuse response organizations – whether domestic violence shelters or abuse hotlines – are not accessible to people with disabilities. Other experiences that are unique to individuals with disabilities can be considered traumatic. Provide training to all staff.

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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

This means including family support workers, social work assistants, contact supervisors and additional administrative colleagues within teams. A recommendation in the Northern Ireland review, which is already being actioned, is for a greater skills mix within children and families teams.

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CO4Kids

JANUARY 13, 2025

Hosted by Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking and Violence Free Colorado.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

She is wrong about domestic violence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. (If Rather they witnessed domestic violence. Presumably witnessing domestic violence again.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When Ronald Reagan’s budget cuts caused massive increases in homelessness, his administration said: No, no, they’re all mentally ill. Oh, says the Scooby gang, but there’s also domestic violence. But surely even the Scooby gang knows that the most dangerous time for survivors of domestic violence is when they try to escape.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Scoppetta , which curbed the practice of taking children from survivors of domestic violence prove that. The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It’s practically the slogan of everyone in the family policing establishment, from the federal government’s Administration for Children and Families to the smallest county family police agency. Among those who suffer most: children of domestic violence survivors. Safety, permanency, well-being.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

One consequence -- the fanaticism with which schools persecute families by rushing to call the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services continues to this day. Among the worst: “ requiring home visits by the police in suspected abuse cases when someone in the family has a domestic violence history.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That means that if a parent is thinking of asking for help, such as HeadStart child care, emergency housing, domestic violence support, substance abuse counseling, or Applied Behavior Analysis therapy funded by the state, they should be prepared to deal with [the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services]. …

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Relias

JANUARY 23, 2024

the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) have done a great deal of work to build on the momentum of national recognition that we have neglected maternal health and the role that social determinants play in the outcomes of women and children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Of course, families enmeshed in the net of family policing agencies such as New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services have always known what the brain scientists are discovering. Remember when “brain science” was the big fad when it came to justifying tearing apart families? Looks like the brain scientists are getting smarter. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

The mother says Arabella was taken because she’s witnessed domestic violence, a tragically common reason for wrongful removal. When a 12-year-old boy says the foster parent sexually assaulted him, administrators went on the offensive – against the child. She was placed with foster parents who adopted her. The boy wasn’t lying.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

From 1950 until his death in 1973 he was the professor of social administration at the London School of Economics. Celia Williamson is an American social worker and professor at the University of Toledo, where she teaches courses on human trafficking, victimisation, and domestic violence.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The lawsuit says that investigators for the Administration for Childrens Services deceive and bully their way into peoples homes, where they rifle through families most private spaces, strip-search children and humiliate parents. So now theres another lawsuit. The coalition has signed on to support the bill.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As the trade journal The Imprint reported: “I’m happy to say we really haven’t seen any indicators” of an increase in undetected child abuse, Commissioner of the Administration for Children’s Services David Hansell told the City Council. One of the groups hurt most: Survivors of domestic violence.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

These families frequently consist of mothers with children by multiple fathers, with both parents often suffering from mental illness and/or drug abuse, and domestic violence is commonly present.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

WITNESSING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, former director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? . ● See also the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law , where Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

More than 20 years ago, a lawsuit stopped New York Citys family police agency from tearing children from their parents just because the parent, usually the mother, was herself a survivor of domestic violence. But that didnt stop the agency from harassing those mothers and their children. Does that include 1958 to 1967?

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