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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 13, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

They should do what Texas did and largely replace it with confidential reporting, in which the accused still doesn’t know the name of the accuser, but the family police do. ● 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.

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The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Transitions to 988

Social Work Blog

Currently, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline consists of a national network of call centers that provide free confidential support to individuals experiencing emotional distress or suicidal thoughts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Callers now are able to reach crisis services via the toll-free national hotline or by calling 911.

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All You Need To Know About Social Work Articles

Social Work Haven

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. Social Work in Mental Health Settings” by Kevin J.

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center conference: The case against CASA

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Court records detail retaliation against attorneys, breaches of confidentiality to benefit the foster parent and an illegal audio recording in open court. It speaks volumes about the Florida CASA program that their email effectively adopts the position that all families are guilty. As we’ve seen other CASA chapters do much the same. ?

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When the journalism of child welfare fails, part three: Texas lawmakers are catching on; the Texas Tribune is not.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Another bill largely (though not completely) replaces anonymous reporting to the state’s child abuse hotline with confidential reporting. The anonymous reporting bill The first bill discussed specifically in the Tribune story is the one largely replacing anonymous reporting with confidential reporting.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.