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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 23, 2023
If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. I know that the advocacy community conflates neglect with poverty," Mossaides said. Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality.
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.” Oh, don’t get me wrong.
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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. That’s permanence of, by, and for, the white middle class circa 1955. But as Prof.
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. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. And so, Mossaides concludes A decision to explore adoption for Harmony should have been pursued earlier.
Beyond Advocacy
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They urged the Supreme Court to “uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act’s constitutionality in all respects.”
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. She is currently a member of the DCYF Parental Advisory Group and is passionate about fixing what is broken in our child welfare system to keep Washington kids safe.
Beyond Advocacy
MARCH 20, 2024
With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. And his TED Talk on the benefits of placing children with family members has more than 1.2
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