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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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

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

She is wrong about domestic violence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. (If Rather they witnessed domestic violence. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.)

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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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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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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

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

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. One of the groups hurt most: Survivors of domestic violence. In addition, Prof.

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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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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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