NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” There are many such groups. Oh, don’t get me wrong.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. Practical Pros and Cons : AI can boost the productivity of administrative tasks and richer educational content. Todd Sage , Ph.D., Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! 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. KVC Kansas.

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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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CO4Kids

MAY 9, 2025

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Nicole Drake receives CDHSs Public Service Recognition Award Nicole Drake, County Intermediary Administrator in the Division of Child Welfare (Office of Children, Youth and Families) received the departments Public Service Recognition Award. She is a powerhouse!

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.)

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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. ? s Child Welfare System Racist? Yesterday: ACS commissioned a study of racism in the agency. There was the headline: “Is N.Y.’s

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Here are the entry numbers from 2012 to 2020: Entries into foster care in Arizona 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 10,663 10,790 12,209 12,722 11,729 10,057 9,173 9,607 9,583 Sources: 2012 to 2019: Administration for Children and Families AFCARS database. 2020: Arizona Department of Child Safety Semi-Annual Child Welfare Reports.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The primary goal of the project is to determine whether the “Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations (BPC)”— a trauma-informed parenting intervention — is effective at promoting child, parent, and family wellbeing among underserved families at-risk for involvement with the child welfare system.

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CO4Kids

APRIL 28, 2025

Back to Blogs Community Blog 2026 Annual Progress and Services Report Stakeholder Feedback The Colorado Department of Human Services Division of Child Welfare is in the final stages of writing the 2026 Annual Progress and Services Report (“APSR”) for federal submission. with any questions, concerns, or accommodations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents. “I I need housing before I can get my kids back. OK, now do we see the problem?

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog DCW Updates for National Adoption Month 2024 By Shelia Dalton, Adoption Program and ICAMA Administrator November is National Adoption Month and this year’s national theme is Honoring Youth: Strengthening Pathways for Lasting Bonds.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

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. We begin with a photo: Check out the ads on New York City buses, from JMac For Families: ?

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize child welfare!). Fortunately, there is extraordinarily good data from the California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP), a collaboration between University of California at Berkeley and the California Department of Social Services.

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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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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. So think carefully before you click here. ●

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

NASW Senior Practice Associate, School Social Work and Child Welfare. It was during the Clinton Administration when then President Bill Clinton declared November National Adoption Month. November 23rd marks National Adoption Day. Eight years later, President Ronald Regan expanding the observance to becoming National Adoption Week.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the federal Administration for Children and Families hasn’t quite gotten the message. Once again the suffering of poor people will enrich some child welfare establishment group or other. As the story puts it: Notably, the type of public benefits offered doesn’t seem to make a difference.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Administration for Children and Families Grant cooperative agreement sub-award of $300,000. This project allows us to focus on supporting families and preventing child maltreatment in our home state rather than waiting until things get to the point where the child welfare system opens a case,” says Phillips.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and The International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) are co-sponsoring a vital online side-event focused on fostering inclusive communities and addressing barriers to social participation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

Only in a system as morally bankrupt as “child welfare” could it be considered acceptable to make children pay an allowance to their substitute parents. It’s also interesting to see where the money DHS steals from foster children is going: It’s used to pay their foster parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Dorothy Roberts’ new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families -- and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World The event, sponsored by Rise, takes place April 16, and it’s available in person or online. ? This week we start with an upcoming event: The New York debut of Prof. You can register here. ?

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CO4Kids

MAY 1, 2025

When families step up, it means children and youth have a chance to feel safe and supported in a loving home, said Joe Homlar, director of the Division of Child Welfare for CDHS. Luis, who immigrated to the United States at 11 years old, uses his background as a teacher, administrator and soccer coach to be a mentor.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Schmitz, can serve as a guide for educators, students, practitioners, and administrators to support the growth and development of female leaders. African American Leadership: An Empowerment Tradition in Social Welfare History, edited by Iris B. Mentoring Women for Leadership: Empowering the Next Generation, by Saundra H.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 4, 2023

So in Massachusetts, where you can seek an administrative hearing to fight your way out, even though the burden of proof is on you to show you are innocent, families win about half the time. DCF is now providing administrative hearings for those who appeal “substantiated concern” determinations.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2024

● Gothamist reports that Black communities in New York City have long said the city's child welfare agency has subjected them to an unmatched degree of scrutiny and that their families have borne the brunt of forced separations.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Disrupting Stigma: How Understanding, Empathy, and Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Families Affect by Substance Use and Mental Disorders. Online Tutorials , for Substance Use Treatment Professionals, Child Welfare Professionals and Legal Professionals.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

“Referrals” is the child welfare system’s term for reports to the state child protective services hotline. “We’ve worked to transform New Jersey’s child welfare system to support and strengthen families who are struggling to meet their basic needs rather than separating them.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

New data from Pennsylvania confirm: When America’s child welfare establishment fearmongers predicted that COVID would bring on a “pandemic of child abuse” it was just the usual health terrorism. Other evidence The Pennsylvania data are only the latest to prove the health terrorists wrong. ●

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2025

The process is supported by a case progression officer, a court administrator whose role involves ensuring cases are managed efficiently and being a point of contact and support for families. The initial CIR may be supplemented by a second one later in the process.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Commission on Civil Rights is examining racism in the New York family policing system (a more accurate term than “child welfare” system). The New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. New York’s institutional providers of family defense prepared in-depth written testimony that is a report in itself. As I read it, I had to stop every few pages.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

They overload child welfare systems – or as they should be called, “family policing systems” -- with false reports and cases in which poverty is confused with neglect , stealing time from finding the few children in real danger. I have written before about how mandatory child abuse reporting laws backfire.

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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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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog NTDC (National Training and Development) Statewide Train-the-Trainer Training The NTDC (National Training and Development Curriculum) continues to be the preferred curriculum for certifying foster/adoptive parents in Colorado.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 1, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Colorado Juvenile Parole Board (JPB) Seeking Applications to Fill One Public At-Large Seat The JPB is a nine-member, Type 1 transfer board, supported by staff housed in the Office of Children, Youth, and Families (OCYF) within the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS). or at 303-506-0584.

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