Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

Christina has been a licensed foster parent in the state of Washington for six years and has adopted one child from the foster care system. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years. by Christina Faucett I am honored to publish this essay from Christina Faucett.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

But i nstead of getting more money directly into the hands of poor families, they’re going to give up to $10 million over five years to some consultant or other – to teach mandatory reporters and child abuse hotline operators how to stop confusing poverty with neglect! That's certainly a step forward. One is 16, the other 13.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family. KVC is a great place to work!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

And, precisely because most cases we think of when we hear the words “child abuse” are nothing like the horror stories and far more like the case of Logan Marr, the data show that, almost always, family preservation is safer than foster care. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A Moving Family Reunification Story After Foster Care. Ashley and Sean’s substance use challenges led to their children being removed from their home and put in foster care. Black Children Are Overrepresented in Foster Care: Here’s How We Can Address This Disparity. Read it now. Read it now.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By Kirsty Hammonds, Coram In my role as child placement consultant in Coram’s activity days team, I come across many siblings who will not be able to live together permanently. This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. The Imprint has a story about it all. New Mexico is moving to do a better job providing representation for families in child welfare cases.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

In its commentary in Child Maltreatment 2017 (CM2017), New Jersey attributed the one-year drop in children with substantiated dispositions from FFY 2016 to FFY2017 to a revised disposition model it adopted in April 2013. The misuse of data by high officials of New Jersey’s child welfare agency raises an uncomfortable question.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

In the Albany Times Union , Madelyn Freundlich, policy research consultant for the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York writes in support of legislation that would replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

There are twice as many children in kinship care in the UK than there are in foster care, yet this type of care remains largely invisible – to the public and policymakers, but often to professionals too. But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

By Ann Horne, kinship consultant, CoramBAAF. Their decision to care for a child is often made at times of family crisis, triggering heightened stress and anxiety, with little planning or preparation. At CoramBAAF, my role as kinship consultant is to support and promote good social work practice with kinship families.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The consultations close on 11 May, 2023. As part of this, the DfE will consult on removing the requirement for social workers to lead child in need cases. The DfE will also consult on new multi-agency child protection standards as part of a review of Working Together to Safeguard Children in 2023.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Hierarchy of support Overall, it found that authorities were most likely to support to family and friends foster carers, followed by carers with a special guardianship order (SGO) for the child and then those with a child arrangements order or residence order (CAO/RO) giving them parental responsibility.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

(And CWLA’s long-ago apology rings hollow – since they still support draconian policing laws such as the so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.) And see also this story from Searchlight New Mexico, which focuses on a Native American child adopted by a well-meaning white couple.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

. “We will enhance partnership working across employers, workers, trade unions and government and establish a fair pay agreement in adult social care. Labour will consult widely on the design of this agreement, before beginning the process and learn from countries where they operate successfully.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But even the most fanatical devotees of thinking less argue for more medical tests and consultation with specialists such as child abuse pediatricians, of course. That post focused on a paper by two doctors who actually told their colleagues that when there is a sentinel injury they should think less, screen more.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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