NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The same scholar who claims predictive analytics in child welfare isn’t biased also signs on to an extremist agenda calling for an automatic, mandatory extra level of family police surveillance of thousands of impoverished families. She also misunderstands abolition and mocks the words of a Black child welfare activist.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides Who in the world could be against something like that? If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Her new “report” on “permanency” for the American Enterprise Institute, home of Charles Murray , is so full of false premises and false promises that perhaps “permanency” is to child welfare what “creme” is to food. That’s because the real purpose of ASFA had little to do with adoption or any other form of “permanency.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Tomorrow, on “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? Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty."

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Ariel Sellers, as she was known before her adoption, was reported missing by her foster/adoptive parents. They say Hawaii’s family police agency, known as “Child Welfare Services” (CWS) ignored them. ? They say Hawaii’s family police agency, known as “Child Welfare Services” (CWS) ignored them. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. They move to change the case goal for the children from reunification to adoption. The fundamental fact of American “child welfare” is that if you’re not white and affluent the system will discriminate against you.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Attention child welfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world. No one should be required to “be nice to people who do despicable things.”

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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.”

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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. 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun. Not a lot of money either, since we know that remarkably small amounts of cash are enough to significantly reduce what family police agencies call “neglect.”

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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. Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty."

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

In the decades, indeed in the centuries before passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act, U.S. child welfare” policy toward Native Americans fit that definition. ICWA is often described as the “gold standard” for “child welfare” law and policy. It’s not as if anyone tried to hide it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

1: Six-year-old Ariel Sellers is taken from her home by Child Welfare Services. Ultimately, they adopt her and change her name to Isabella. Lawmakers should take the money earmarked for more personnel and use it to ameliorate the worst aspects of poverty. Relatives are ready to take Ariel in, but they say CWS ignores them.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed. However, there is some hope in the form of federal assistance for the child welfare system.

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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. Yet, as our lives become increasingly mediated by technology and adopted by those around us, bringing our humanistic lenses to these spaces becomes even more important. Todd Sage , Ph.D.,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

UPDATE, 2024: given that the child welfare establishment has no shame, expect the usual op-eds to have token boilerplate statements about racial justice – even as these establishment groups propose making a profoundly racist family policing system even bigger and more powerful.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Family Rights Group said it wanted to collaborate with her “to solve the very real issues facing the child welfare system and to help children thrive within their families” Meanwhile, charities Adoption UK , Become and Kinship highlighted the importance of improving outcomes for adopted people and their families, children in care and (..)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

When the agency sought to persuade the foster parents to adopt, here’s what the foster father says he was told: “Family will come out of the woodwork when we do this. Meanwhile, the child has been moved to his fifth foster placement. But here the family police give away what really happens. But] We’ll handle them for you.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

She’s condemned the Indian Child Welfare Act and called for requiring every parent reapplying for “public benefits” (in other words, poor people) whose children are not otherwise seen by a mandated reporter to produce the child for a child abuse inspection - even when there is no allegation of abuse or neglect.

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KVC

JUNE 13, 2023

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s mental health treatment and other life-changing services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

● We begin, of course, with the superb story from CBS News Sunday Morning – a story that, in 12 minutes tells you everything about how “child welfare” really works. Vivek Sankaran writes about what, for children, probably is the most dangerous phrase in the entire child welfare lexicon. In The Imprint, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Saturday marked a tragic milestone – the 25 th anniversary of a law that has harmed millions of children, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Mical Raz in The Washington Post: “Our adoption policies have harmed families and children. The Clinton-era Adoption and Safe Families Act passed 25 years ago.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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. Ultimately, they adopted her and changed her name to Isabella Kalua. The foster/adoptive parents have been charged with murdering the child. Part of her nose bridge was missing.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2023

● The Imprint profiles Sandy White Hawk, author of A Child of the Indian Race. The book describes how she was forced into an abusive white adoptive home during the era of mass adoption of Native children, before passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Based on her extensive research, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the Slate “What’s Next” podcast, Eli Hager of ProPublica discusses his investigative report on the harm done to children by the lack of due process in the “child welfare” system. ? 9 on a case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act. ? Before the news summary a reminder: TODAY (Nov.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Haaland, the case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act is scheduled to begin TODAY (Nov. Of course, most non-native foster parents who adopt native children are not accused of abusing them. Another post discusses two stories about “shortages” in Massachusetts “child welfare.” 9) at 10:00 am ET. In other news:

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Commission on Civil Rights is hosting a series of public briefings to examine the extent to which racial disproportionalities and disparities exist in the New York child welfare system and its impact specifically on Black children and families. In Michigan, state judges are all upset over a “placement crisis” in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

How many times have you read what journalists covering child welfare call “the fatality series”? The lawsuit called for strengthening enforcement of the Adoption and Safe Families Act. And Michigan’s leading family advocate blasts a Children’s Rights McLawsuit consent decree for making things “much worse.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

Canada has a similarly ugly history when it comes to child welfare and Canada’s First Nations. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. . ● It’s not just books. But KELO-TV reports, South Dakota is not. Given that state’s history, as reported more than a decade ago by NPR, that’s not surprising.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Dorothy Roberts’ definitive dissection of racism in family policing: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Some might say the novel depicts a dystopian future child welfare surveillance state. We start with three important books: ● First, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But in reality, a large and growing majority of child abuse is simple neglect, which can be greatly ameliorated with the welfare state; and CPS actions are themselves often abusive. The story is called “Slash Child Abuse With One Simple Trick: Cash ” ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

● Take a step back, see – and hear – how the family policing system really works in this report from NPR, featuring perspectives from JMAC for Families and NCCPR: ● You know how defenders of computerized racial profiling in family policing (more accurate terms than “predictive analytics” in “child welfare”) defend their biased algorithms by a.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? But things have taken a strange turn in Maine.

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