Child Welfare Monitor
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Perhaps one reason for Wyden’s and Reed’s blind spot is the current ideological tendency of what might be called the child welfare establishment, including the federal Administration on Children and Families, state leaders, and large and wealthy foundations and advocacy groups like Casey Family Programs.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 25, 2024
Photo by Alan Levine When children are taken from their parents forever and those children are adopted by strangers, the parents often want to leave their children something to remember them by, perhaps a cherished keepsake or a family photo from happier times. What’s the difference between adoption and those other options?
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
The money goes to two adoption advocacy groups (reinforcing the bias that permanency equals adoption, not reunification, and prioritizing paper permanence over what has aptly been called “ relational permanence ”) not one, but two schools of social work, and – I kid you not - a consortium of child welfare system administrators.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
In the Virginia Mercury , Valerie L’Herrou, deputy director of the Center for Family Advocacy, urges support for legislation that would bolster the quality of family defense in that state. In this week’s edition of The Horror Stories Go In All Directions: Hawaii, 2021: six-year-old Ariel Sellers was allegedly adopted to death.
Child Welfare Monitor
APRIL 17, 2024
Christina has been a licensed foster parent in the state of Washington for six years and has adopted one child from the foster care system. by Christina Faucett I am honored to publish this essay from Christina Faucett. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2022
There’s still more about the harm of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ● In The Imprint , Kathleen Creamer, managing attorney of the Family Advocacy Unit at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia writes: My clients are the children of ASFA. It involves, yes, a questionnaire about adverse childhood experiences.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 23, 2023
I know that the advocacy community conflates neglect with poverty," Mossaides said. And, according to its own brochure , the Plummer program encourages something called “concurrent planning” which further stacks the deck against families and in favor of foster parents who want to adopt.* Then it was back to the fearmongering.
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