NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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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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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. We interviewed them to learn more about what it’s like to serve in these important roles with KVC. Dalton Shump.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One of those two things has now prompted the Biden Administration to propose regulations to curb this practice. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. In 2021 ProPublica published a superb expose of this practice. Sarah Font. But she did not see her mother. Why had this happened?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

NPR interviewed Julia Lurie of Mother Jones about her excellent story documenting how Massachusetts children sometimes have to wait weeks to be reunited after being wrongfully taken by the family police, entirely on their own authority, because that’s how long it takes for the “72-hour hearing” in which a judge first reviews the evidence.

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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.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into foster care.” There is something strange about this example.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Her plea is that the agency that wrecked her family, New York Citys Administration for Childrens Services, not respond to the latest horrifying child abuse deaths by rushing to investigate more families and take away more children. Dorothy Roberts discusses the harm in an interview for Current Affairs. NCCPR Board Member Prof.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

One reform proposal–known as “blind removal”–seemed blessedly simple: just hide the race and ethnicity of a child being considered for placement in foster care, and racial differences in child removal will disappear. Responses to a survey of workers and administrators provided little evidence of positive change.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2022

? Last week, we noted the stunning Atlantic cover story about the Trump Administration policy of trying to destroy families at the Mexican border. The registries do enormous harm to children by driving families deeper into poverty, and ratcheting up unwarranted suspicion that can lead to a child being needlessly thrown into foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Dickerson’s masterpiece of in-depth reporting on the Trump Administration’s policy of family separation at the Mexican border is that good. It took 18 months of reporting, more than 150 interviews, and a lawsuit to obtain relevant documents. But it’s also, to use that awful word from blurbs about thrillers: unputdownable.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His administration used it as a justification for not returning children his administration took at the Mexican border. But none of that has stopped three Republican state legislators from taking what amounts to the Trump Administration position and supporting the white foster parents.

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