KVC

JULY 16, 2023

This began a shift to reclaim the values-driven culture of KVC’s early days, creating a highly engaged, exceptional place to work. Learn more about work wellbeing and engagement, how KVC has created a positive, supportive culture, and how that culture benefits employees, clients, and supporters alike.

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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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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

This bill would reauthorize Title IV-B of the Social Security Act to strengthen child welfare services and expand the availability of prevention services. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, which held a hearing on the legislation on July 24, following a year-long review of child welfare programs.

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Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

by Patty Flores I am grateful to be publishing this essay by a gifted and needed young voice in the child welfare space. I then found myself in foster care and having to navigate the complicated child welfare system, speaking little English and knowing nothing about how the child protection system (CPS) works in this country.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

I had a friend encourage me to apply to KVC, to explore if social work in the child welfare system would be a good fit. She found a job listing from KVC in her search for a career in child welfare after graduating from college. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system.

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

Our work with families focuses on the parents’ readiness to engage in a supportive relationship. Our hope is to inspire social workers to showcase the work they are proud of, making it possible for others to adopt and share their ideas. Child Welfare League of America.

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KVC

JUNE 23, 2021

Bobbie Friedemann says the process of dealing with the courts, social workers, child advocates and counselors can feel overwhelming for birth parents. “It Co-Parenting Partnerships Keep Birth Parents Engaged, Focused and Present. The Friedemanns regularly engage with birth parents. “We Carpenter calls it “tag-team parenting.”

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 25, 2025

Ten-year-old Begidu Morris died more than three years ago of horrific child abuse by his parents, who adopted him from Ethiopia. But there was no avalanche of media coverage of his death, no interviews with shocked neighbors saying they had no idea the child even existed. No pyramid of teddy bears and flowers outside his home.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. That is why a social work to-do list may help us manage better. Recommended Books.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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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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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

In those instances, we need the care to be delivered in trauma-responsive environments that embrace parent and caregiver engagement throughout the treatment intervention and continually focus on best practice. These residential treatment facilities can have a significant benefit to the young person and their family.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. That’s not because they want to hurt children, of course. But it didn’t stop there.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

● We begin with this from The New York Times : A sweeping class-action lawsuit filed against New York City on Tuesday argues that the agency that investigates child abuse and neglect routinely engages in unconstitutional practices that traumatize the families it is charged with protecting. States call it “child support.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. Source: U.S. Emphasis added.]

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

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). How might we better define issues and engage program participants? Child Welfare. Communities and Neighborhoods.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

Physical abuse: Physical abuse is typically categorized as intentional and physically hurtful actions, resulting in the injury of the child. Sexual abuse: Sexual abuse is defined as intentionally forcing a child to engage in (or exposing a child to) sexual acts, including penetration, fondling and exposure of body parts.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

Readers are invited to practice self-care while navigating this content and to consider reading the findings with a group to engage in collective reflection. Tyrone Howard et al, Beyond Blind Removal: Color Consciousness and Anti-Racism in Los Angeles County Child Welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

As America’s racial justice reckoning finally catches up with “child welfare” – or, as it should be called, family policing – the “child welfare establishment is engaged in its own campaign of reputation laundering. They’re still engaging in health terrorism. for decades. But it’s actually worse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

That’s the current name of a child welfare trade association that co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. Yet none of the recent trips to the reputation laundry from child welfare establishment groups includes support for any proposal that would reduce their power.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

The child welfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. The child welfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. We have always been at war with Eurasia.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

As America’s racial justice reckoning finally catches up with “child welfare” – or, as it should be called, family policing – the “child welfare establishment is engaged in its own campaign of reputation laundering. Real child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ?

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Social engagement and forming healthy attachments are essential to healthy brain development. They provide family strengthening services , foster care , family reunification services , foster family recruitment and support , adoption , aftercare , outpatient therapy and more. This has an even greater impact on children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Americas massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. Thats why weve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove anything. Hawaii, 2021: six-year-old Ariel Sellers was allegedly adopted to death.

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