NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

That’s what they’ve done with the concept of “primary prevention” – turning it into another excuse to load families down with meaningless “counseling” and “parenting education.” Family policing systems have a way of co-opting and perverting good ideas.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) But here the family police give away what really happens. But] We’ll handle them for you.”

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Domestic Violence Child Welfare Adoption Welfare 107

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The public policy arm has done outstanding work questioning things like the mad rush to terminate children’s rights to their parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights) to push them into adoptive homes. A member of NCCPR’s Board of Directors was co-counsel for plaintiffs.)

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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. by Christina Faucett I am honored to publish this essay from Christina Faucett. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The family police took the noble concept of permanence and confused it with permanence in only one form – the paper permanence of formal adoption by strangers. It opted for the paper permanence of adoption, in which often a child is cut off from Mom and Dad to the point of doing everything possible to eradicate them from that child’s life.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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. A small number are sick.

Child Welfare 98

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But with no statutory duty on councils to provide support for birth families of children taken into care, apart from in cases of adoption, Pause said that they faced a postcode lottery in provision. It also cited previous research that found many such young mothers had been in care themselves.

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Relias

AUGUST 23, 2022

In order to take care of your staff, it’s important to adopt a trauma-informed care approach within your own organization. By coming to a better understanding of what trauma is, your organization can adopt better practices to recognize trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue among your staff. Trauma is always defined by the individual.

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KVC

JUNE 16, 2022

Counseling can be a tremendous tool for an LGBTQIA+ young person. Did you know that if you’re an LGBTQIA+ adult, you can foster or adopt? Returning to outgrown behaviors (for example, thumb-sucking or bedwetting). Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs. Poor school performance or avoiding schoolwork.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Self-harm Substance Abuse Adoption 52

Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 13, 2023

If enacted, the bill would expand state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. The bill was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Finance Committee in the Senate.

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Relias

MAY 20, 2024

Programs like paid time off for mental health days and access to counseling through work can go a long way to mitigating burnout, compassion fatigue, and other signs of extreme stress or trauma. A myriad of ways exist to create effective staff support programs, but experts have pinpointed a few best practices worth highlighting.

Psychology 52

Psychology Communication Adoption Mental Health 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) But Alberi seems to want OCFS to adopt a policy that boils down to: Please pass the salt. When children are taken for that reason the trauma for the child is actually worse than other forms of removal. But removing children for that reason can be even worse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This post is adapted from a virtual presentation I gave last month to the Racial Justice Task Force of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Child and Family Law Division. My group’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs. It still happens, of course, but it happens less.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Examples of intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, community organisation, case management, advocacy, and active listening. Some examples of social work intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, case management, community organisation, advocacy, and active listening. Counselling.

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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. Counselling clients to make informed decisions that affect their lives.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As I embark on this transformative journey, I am committed to adopting a strength-based approach—one that recognises and nurtures the inherent potential within each individual. Strength-Based Approach One of the key aspects of being a social worker is adopting a strength-based approach.

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Irish Social Worker

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This week also we see the debate regarding the use of counselling notes in rape cases also hitting media attention with the Minister for Justice making a welcome statement that he is not opposed to an outright ban on their use in criminal trials – heres hoping.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. Discussing the possibility of counseling or therapy can be a supportive step to provide them with an outlet to address their feelings and receive professional assistance if needed.

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Gary Direnfeld

MAY 27, 2022

Beyond my family, there is you, extended kin, closest of friends – my adopted family members, friends, colleagues, and those whom I haven’t met but who share space with me virtually. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. Support matters. With that, I am blessed. Transparency matters.

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Gary Direnfeld

MAY 15, 2022

Initially it was difficult to adopt the new mindset, fending off constant bullying. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. She played to the long game and learned there would be skirmishes along the way. The coaching and support throughout paid off. It sure wasn’t a fairytale ending.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Amazingly she had already adopted a number of strategies and capacities from those previous helpers. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. And they commissioned a poll from Gallup , which appears to have been geared toward encouraging more Black families to foster and adopt. But there is. None of it was true.

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 115

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.

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Child Welfare Domestic Violence Adoption Behavior Analysis 76

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

That was encouraged by an odious federal law, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. But the biggest failure of family policing is the heart of its mission: putting families under onerous needless surveillance and taking away the children. The PBS Newshour has an in-depth, finely-nuanced look at ASFA and the harm it has done.

Child Welfare 76

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Self-harm 76

Irish Social Worker

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Do we strive to adopt that cornerstone of trauma-informed care, of meeting the person where they are at, in the midst of their reality, with their lived-expertise guiding the way. In Ireland, we have taken a narrow approach to adoption of the Directive. Doing what we’ve always done? So what’s my point here?

Criminal Justice 22

Criminal Justice Adoption Advocacy Disability 22

Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

At almost three years old, and after two straight years in foster care with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. But some lawyers that counsel parents in child protection cases are being told that attachment theory does not apply to Black children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Arons points to the growth of mutual aid networks, community-based and community-run – providing everything from food and diapers to child care and counseling. In addition, Prof. And since they are not run by mandated reporters, people don’t need to fear going to them for help.

Child Welfare 98

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

Perhaps that’s because the only people who do benefit from CAPTA are agencies that investigate families, and agencies that provide often useless “preventive services” like “counseling” and “parent education” and/or warehouse children in foster care: In other words, members in good standing of “Social Current.”

Child Welfare 98

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

High-quality defense counsel for all families at risk of being caught in the family police net. ? Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep. Real child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

High-quality defense counsel for all families at risk of being caught in the family police net. ? Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep. Real child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The program, first adopted in Nassau County on Long Island in New York, redacts all race and race-related factors from the dossiers used by social workers and supervisors in determining child welfare cases. But then, as now, the numbers weren’t down. Los Angeles was, and remains, an outlier in child removal.

Child Welfare 98

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

High-quality defense counsel for all families at risk of being caught in the family police net. ? Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep. Real child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ?

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Administration 98

Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

New Yorkers overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative during elections in November 2019 that adopted the system of voting which allows each voter to choose up to five choices for each of the elected positions under consideration. Former mayoral counsel Maya Wiley won the endorsement of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

At that first hearing the detainees may – or may not – get a lawyer just before the hearing begins, and they almost never get effective counsel. But when you look at the lawmakers who lead efforts to make state and local family policing systems even bigger and more powerful, they tend to come from the Left.

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