NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. ● As is so often the case, the professor’s comments minimize the harm of one of the worst “adverse childhood experiences” a child can endure – being torn from everyone s/he knows and loves and thrown into foster care. There’s still more about the harm of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And the head of a trade association for “children’s advocacy centers,” where many such exams are performed, says the real problem is agencies aren’t doing enough of them. ● So they used a blackmail placement – aka hidden foster care. “They’re using these kids, basically, as pieces of evidence, and you can’t do that.”

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

The 12th edition of Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly in 2020. This user-friendly resource can assist in developing organizational responses to policy issues, conducting policy analysis, and working in advocacy coalitions. _

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 13, 2023

If enacted, the bill would expand state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. We will also hear from Duane Price, a young man with experience in foster care whose life was enhanced by getting a car.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

No Black history in America or history of children’s advocacy can be complete without the name of Marian Wright Edelman. a child’s advocacy and research center. With Edelman at the helm, they lobbied for legislation including the Education for All Handicapped Children in 1975 and the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act in 1980.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

No Black history in America or history of children’s advocacy can be complete without the name of Marian Wright Edelman. a child’s advocacy and research center. With Edelman at the helm, they lobbied for legislation including the Education for All Handicapped Children in 1975 and the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act in 1980.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that article, Alexandra Travis writes about her own experience with family destruction and then asks: Tell me, if you knew our story, would you still advocate so fiercely for adoption and termination? One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Added Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

They said my child would be safer in foster care than with me," said the mother of Ja'Ceon Terry, "but see the outcome of what happened." And check out this detailed testimony from several New York City family defense and family advocacy organizations. ? This week the Missouri Independent did the same story – and got it right.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. Sorey’s fight for her daughter in this excellent story from The Boston Globe.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

The 12th edition of Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly in 2020. This user-friendly resource can assist in developing organizational responses to policy issues, conducting policy analysis, and working in advocacy coalitions.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. It also strengthens post-adoption services. The January briefing was one of several congressional briefings CRISP organized to support foster care legislation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. Youth Today reports on creation of an independent Office of Family Representation and Advocacy. ­? The Imprint has a story about it all.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. But read it only if you are ready to reconsider everything you think you know about adoption. ● In North Carolina, WBTV produced a series of reports documenting the harm done to children and families by hidden foster care in that state.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Hotlines wind up with more false reports and trivial cases; children are harassed and traumatized by needless child abuse investigations – often including stripsearches as caseworkers look for bruises - and some of those children are forced needlessly into foster care. But for the past three years it's been especially relevant.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As I embark on this transformative journey, I am committed to adopting a strength-based approach—one that recognises and nurtures the inherent potential within each individual. Strength-Based Approach One of the key aspects of being a social worker is adopting a strength-based approach.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Hotlines wind up with more false reports and trivial cases; children are harassed and traumatized by needless child abuse investigations – often including stripsearches as caseworkers look for bruises - and some of those children are forced needlessly into foster care. But for the past four years it's been especially relevant.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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KVC

MAY 19, 2023

Nevertheless, I Persisted: Robin’s Inspiring Success Story When Robin was just three years old, her mother’s substance use led to her and her siblings being placed in foster care for their safety. She was adopted, but the family was not able to stay together. This began a long and difficult road for Robin.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The matter originated in a Texas District Court when an adoption petition by a non-Native couple—Chad and Jennifer Brackeen—seeking legal custody of a Native American child was challenged by the Navajo Tribe. The District Court ruled in favor of the Brackeens, declaring ICWA unconstitutional.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan School of Law says the best thing CR could do would be to get out. In January 2016, I described federal judge Janis Jack’s first decision in favor of CR as a guided tour of the hellscape of Texas foster care.

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Child Advocates

JULY 28, 2023

“There’s a push to stop the conversations–to stop educating people. Why don’t we want to share knowledge? Some people who. The post How You and Our Youth Can Interrupt Racism | Podcast Episode 20 appeared first on Child Advocates.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

National Child Abuse Prevention Month brings a heightened awareness of child abuse during April, but children need our advocacy year-round. Learning the signs of a child in a potentially dangerous position can go far in the advocacy and prevention of abuse. Advocacy can take place every day through small gestures.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The Tribune is still pushing the Big Lie of American “child welfare” – the idea that any bill that protects children from being traumatized by the family police and forced into the hellscape of Texas foster care is a “parents’ rights” bill that supposedly comes at the expense of child safety. On the contrary.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

On the Proximity Process podcast Kathleen Creamer, Managing Attorney of the Family Advocacy Unit at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia discusses the enormous harm done to families by America’s obsession with termination of parental rights. He was institutionalized. He ran away, and he died.

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Beyond Advocacy

JANUARY 5, 2024

It had been the subject of her dissertation titled In the Best Interest of the Family: The Outcomes of Children in Foster Care with an Incarcerated Parent and the Adverse Implications of the Adoptions and Safe Families Act. Angelique Day, her former professor at Wayne State University.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2022

Did the entire American Bar Association just go on record calling for the repeal of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Multi-Ethnic Placement Act? He discusses his work in New York City and his current work building family advocacy internationally in this podcast from the Kempe Center. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In other cases, the Post reported, “children’s advocacy centers have tried to reach children in new ways, slipping messages into supply bags or into homework lessons.” This is all coming due to us at some point,” said the head of a trade association for “Children’s Advocacy Centers. Later in 2020 came phase two of the messaging.

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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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