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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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Once again the suffering of poor people will enrich some childwelfare establishment group or other. At worst it could go to some awful group like Prevent Child Abuse America, which falsely defines the issue as poverty causing neglect when the bigger issue is poverty itself confused with neglect. .
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(The agencies call it “child support” but listen closely at 36:23 in, and you’ll hear Imprint editor John Kelly use the R-word :-)) The interview starts at 16:40 in. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled. Commission on Civil Rights says that state needs more safeguards and transparency for such algorithms.
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. ● In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian ChildWelfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.
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Disclaimer: This conference is devoted to the Human Rights Day (every year on 10 December) — the day when the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). ChildWelfare. Disability. Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy. Communities and Neighborhoods.
If you’re relatively new to all of this, take 20 minutes to let Joyce McMillan of JMacForFamilies give you an overview of how the system really works in this podcast from Black Agenda Report: Black Agenda Radio · ChildWelfare System Damages Black Children and Families ? Patsy Mink of Hawaii. She knew how much harm it would do.
But we have to have our eyes open to the potential of this model.” -- Rhema Vaithianathan, co-designer of childwelfare “predictive analytics” algorithms, discussing the idea of assessing children’s risk of abuse – while they’re still in the womb. In the years since, some reliably blue states and localities rushed to adopt algorithms.
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Americas massive childwelfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. Thats why weve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the childwelfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove anything. The child is often seen as the failure, not the treatment facility.
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