NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Whether it’s housing subsidies, child care assistance, or cash aid, there appears to be the same positive effect — reducing CPS reports. Unfortunately, the federal Administration for Children and Families hasn’t quite gotten the message. There are horrifying details about the sexual assault of two young teenagers in Texas foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The article aptly describes the Center as a first-of-its-kind organization that intends to engage in affirmative litigation with the [Administration for Children’s Services] —hitting it with lawsuits to potentially hold it accountable for allegedly violating families’ constitutional rights via heavy-handed investigatory and removal tactics.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 13, 2025

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. Shelter Inc. Learn more at www.shelter-inc.org.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

As the parent organization, KVC Health Systems does not provide direct services to children and families; rather it provides administrative support to its local subsidiaries or business units. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. Many people associate KVC Kansas with foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Nearly 15% of Native American children, nearly 15% of Hispanic children and nearly 20% of Black children will be placed in foster care, according to the study. In fact, Arizona has been in foster-care panic mode for most of the past 20 years – a national record. times higher than the rate in New York City.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

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. New York’s family police agency is still harassing survivors of domestic violence and their children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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. ? ACS’ response: Don’t release the report!

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It was during the Clinton Administration when then President Bill Clinton declared November National Adoption Month. Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted from Foster Care. Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care . On November 23, the month’s event culminates with National Adoption Day.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Hey, remember when New York City schools and the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, promised that this year they wouldn’t traumatize children and families by sending caseworkers to investigate them on “educational neglect” charges just because they felt it was still unsafe to send them to in-person classes?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 4, 2023

And the listing increases the odds that, even if the children weren’t thrown into foster care this time, it will happen if the family is reported again – because the listing raises suspicions, whether it’s the guess of a human caseworker or a computer algorithm raising a family’s “risk score.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Alan Dettlaff, was invited by the Child Welfare League of America, a trade association whose members include agencies paid for each day they hold children in foster care, to write the forward for an issue of one of their journals. . ● A founder of the upEND Movement, Prof. Then CWLA refused to publish it. You can read it here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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. It’s not like the state can’t afford to step in and provide this money.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in foster care. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Two states are moving to curb the practice of forcing parents to pay ransom to get their children back from foster care. The Imprint also has a look back at all that fearmongering about a supposed “pandemic of child abuse” – and what the research actually tells us. ? They don’t call it that, of course, they call it “child support.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

● Want to see how easy it is for the foster care system to become the ultimate middle-class entitlement – step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own? One of the victims in the case endured sexual abuse that led to a 30-year prison sentence for a former foster father in 2017.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

New York City Administration for Children's Services Commissioner Jess Dannhauser Poor Jess Dannhauser. If a call about a New York City child is accepted by the state, the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is required by state law to respond to allegations and assess the safety of the child.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In its kinship care strategy, the previous Conservative government announced it would pilot providing special guardians of former looked-after children with allowances equivalent to those received by foster carers, in eight areas from 2024-28, backed by £16m in 2024-25.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

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. (NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The New York City Administration for Children's Services Uses Highly Coercive Tactics to Illegally Search Tens of Thousands of Families’ Homes Every Year. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

So, what did the Herald write when something remarkably similar happened in foster care? There are children languishing in foster care, going from home to home and sleeping in CPS offices — when they have a willing, able parent to take care of them." ? Nothing, of course.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Children are staying longer in the care system due to inequalities in payments to kinship carers, a report has found. However, there was a far smaller rise in the number of children leaving kinship foster care for an SGO over this time, with this figure rising by 10%, from 2,270 to 2,500 over this time.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. Now, more children will get the opportunity to live with relatives.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

That would make everything ten times worse for the children by subjecting them to traumatic investigations and stripsearches and possibly consigning them to the chaos of foster care. It was how the Reagan Administration explained away the explosion in homelessness that followed draconian cuts to social programs.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Monday: 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. ? The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”) There was the headline: “Is N.Y.’s

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

We’d better be prepared for a surge in child abuse reports and a surge in foster care, as all those abused children emerge from their homes battered and bruised and are once again seen by all those mandated reporters who can make the call that will rescue them!

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KVC

JANUARY 11, 2024

While foster care can be a crucial safety net for children and families in challenging circumstances, we at KVC know how important it is to help families stay together. Foster care prevention and family preservation services help families remain intact, allowing children to grow and thrive! foster care system.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

s programs, services, management, and administration. The accreditation process involves a detailed review and analysis of an organization’s administration, management, and service delivery functions against international standards of best practice. COA Accreditation evaluated all aspects of Shelter Inc.’s Shelter, Inc. Shelter Inc.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

However, the system of informal kinship care created by kinship diversion has been called America’s hidden foster care system and nationwide it appears to dwarf the provision of kinship care within the foster care system.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

KVC case managers Victoria Clark, Dalton Shump, and Micah McEwan all work for the Olathe, Kansas office, where they coordinate and support the day-to-day needs of children and teens in foster care and their families. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system. Dalton Shump.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Gothamist has a story about how she raised $40,000 for an ad campaign to tell families their rights when the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, is at the door. And the Indiana Capital Chronicle reports that Advocates say overmedication of children in foster care still a problem.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 1, 2024

For questions, please contact Lee Ann Brabec, JPB Administrator at leeann.brabec@state.co.us To apply for a seat on the Juvenile Parole Board, complete the Governor’s Office of Boards and Commissions Application and submit a current resume. The application can be found here. Application deadline is Friday, August 30, 2024. or at 303-506-0584.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Gothamist has real news about what should be called fake Miranda rights – the notices that New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, will give parents when ACS caseworkers pound on their doors.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

The National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents (NTDC) was funded through a five-year cooperative agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, and Children’s Bureau.

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Welsh Government has opened a consultation on plans to eliminate profit-making residential and fostering provision for children in care. The CMA warned that profits among the largest providers of both residential and foster care were higher than would be expected in a well-functioning market.

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