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Torn Apart: How the Abolition Movement Destroys Foster Youth – And How Listening To Us Can Build A Safer World

Child Welfare Monitor

by Patty Flores I am grateful to be publishing this essay by a gifted and needed young voice in the child welfare space. She spent half of her life in foster care, struggling with substance abuse. Also silenced are our allies, who are shamed for wanting to pursue a career in child welfare.

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When it comes to the problems plaguing “child welfare” wrongful removal drives everything else – including caseworker turnover. Case in point: Massachusetts

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Taking a child under those circumstances causes the child even more trauma than taking the child for other reasons – that’s one reason it’s illegal to do it in New York. According to the story, Toscano’s husband was also cited for substance abuse, according to DCF records she shared with the Globe.

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How the journalism of child welfare fails

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. So birth parents become, at best, nonentities, at worst those awful people their foster or adoptive parent friends told them about. That’s not correct.

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As foster care removals plummet, where’s the promised help for families?

Child Welfare Monitor

The newest report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) showed that the number of children in foster care dropped to 368,530 on September in 2022–a drop of 5.8 Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize child welfare!).

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

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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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Have you noticed how the writing of “child welfare” establishment types sounds more frantic lately? Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? Josh Gupta-Kagan. Case in point: The “scholar” so desperate he’s trying to turn the entire concept of “evidence-based” on its head.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 25, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? We begin this week not just with one story but with an entire magazine.