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It turns out, Paris Hilton knows more about "residential treatment facilities" than at least one self-proclaimed "childwelfare scholar." By pretending that this industry has nothing to do with his sacred, beloved “childwelfare” system. So how did Barth respond? It’s not a matter of ill-motivation. But Paris Hilton does.
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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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. ● Also in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s highly-touted predictive analytics family policing algorithm reportedly is under investigation for bias against the disabled. Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan.
. ● 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.
That’s because it’s meant specifically for those who have read a study concocted by a who’s who of family policing’s “caucus of denial” – those who claim that, somehow, childwelfare is magically immune from the racism that infects every other aspect of American life. Therefore “childwelfare” isn’t racist.
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He has been the editor for the journal ChildWelfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. His efforts led to the adoption of protection of farm workers from excessive heat and overtime pay. Senate in 2013.
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Jacque started her career working with developmentally disabled children, youth and adults. Throughout her years with the department, she went on to work with youth in residential facilities, families involved in childwelfare, foster parents, and children and youth in foster care before moving on to supervisory and administrative roles.
Attention childwelfare 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.”
Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. But for America’s giant childwelfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias. That same algorithm now is reportedly under investigation by the U.S.
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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This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change ChildWelfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? Safety, permanency, well-being.” I am a lifelong tax-and-spend liberal and proud of it. But the family police cannot.
“I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the childwelfare system. “To But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A Some even are celebrated.
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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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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.
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.
They are seeking to learn from people with lived experience in foster care, both current and former foster care youth, parents, adoptive parents, and parents whose children were referred to childwelfare. Agencies argue that children and youth are not mature enough to make responsible decisions about spending money.
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Or will they uphold their commitments to child safety through family preservation? -- Based on her extensive research Prof. 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.
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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