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How the Kansas “child welfare” agency makes hundreds of foster children “disappear.”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Seventeen years after we first raised the issue, an ugly little practice that leads to hundreds of needless foster care placements in Kansas every year finally is getting some attention though far from all of the attention it deserves. Its a special Kansas twist on the ugly practice of hidden foster care.

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As foster care removals plummet, where’s the promised help for families?

Child Welfare Monitor

Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. “We

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Challenging Handmaid’s Tale jurisprudence in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But New York Citys family police agency, the Administration for Childrens Services, charged her with neglect. In fact, the control the government demands can predate conception. gave birth, the newborn tested positive for methadone which had been prescribed to Ms. to control her addiction. The agency didnt stop there.

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Is this family police agency leader really bragging about misleading the public?

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

According to Virginia Public Media : Avula noted Virginia’s rate of placement with relatives is less than half of the national average — a statistic he said is skewed by the fact that local social services departments in the state prioritize informal placements with relatives before sending a child into the foster care system.

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Let the NYC family police teach you how to dissemble like a pro!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. “It

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 23, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Khadijah Abdurahman, who is both a parent with lived experience dealing with New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services – and a Tech Research Fellow at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. government representatives – all of which they evaded. ?

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Adultification bias expert appointed national kinship care ambassador

Community Care

Jahnine Davis’s role will involve supporting and challenging councils to improve practice, amplifying children’s voices and those of under-represented groups and championing kinship care within government policymaking.