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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

. ● Also in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s highly-touted predictive analytics family policing algorithm reportedly is under investigation for bias against the disabled. Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

If you are in another state, please contact your nearest state child welfare agency office. If you are in one of the states where we provide foster care, contact our teams directly: Kansas , Nebraska , Kentucky or West Virginia. You might find this AdoptUSKids state directory helpful. Attend or Sponsor a KVC Event.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

That’s because it’s meant specifically for those who have read a study concocted by a who’s who of family policing’s “caucus of denial” – those who claim that, somehow, child welfare is magically immune from the racism that infects every other aspect of American life. Therefore “child welfare” isn’t racist.

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

He has been the editor for the journal Child Welfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. His efforts led to the adoption of protection of farm workers from excessive heat and overtime pay. Senate in 2013.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Social Work Quotes. Some of these articles are free to access.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Jacque started her career working with developmentally disabled children, youth and adults. Throughout her years with the department, she went on to work with youth in residential facilities, families involved in child welfare, foster parents, and children and youth in foster care before moving on to supervisory and administrative roles.

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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. In the past, this event was essentially a garden party for the child welfare establishment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias. That same algorithm now is reportedly under investigation by the U.S.

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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. It’s the third time since 2019 that governors have caved-in to the state’s powerful middle-class adoptive and foster parent lobby and vetoed the bill.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? Safety, permanency, well-being.” I am a lifelong tax-and-spend liberal and proud of it. But the family police cannot.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. The phrase is an invitation to inflict the whims and prejudices of a white middle-class “child welfare” establishment on families that are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite. That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A Some even are celebrated.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Let’s start by looking ahead to Saturday – it’s time for National Adoption Day! If termination of parental rights is child welfare’s equivalent of the death penalty, then what is Adoption Day but a macabre celebration of family executions ? Balloons at the courthouse! The picture is even uglier than you think. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Still another victory in the fight against computerized racial profiling (or as the family police prefer to call it “predictive analytics”) in child welfare: The Associated Press reports that Connecticut’s advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As with her social care ministerial predecessors, Tolhurst’s brief will also encompass other issues concerning disadvantaged and vulnerable children, including special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and early help.

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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). Child Welfare. Disability. Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy. Aging Services and Gerontology.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

But we have to have our eyes open to the potential of this model.” -- Rhema Vaithianathan, co-designer of child welfare “predictive analytics” algorithms, discussing the idea of assessing children’s risk of abuse – while they’re still in the womb. In the years since, some reliably blue states and localities rushed to adopt algorithms.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

They are seeking to learn from people with lived experience in foster care, both current and former foster care youth, parents, adoptive parents, and parents whose children were referred to child welfare. Agencies argue that children and youth are not mature enough to make responsible decisions about spending money.

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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. Thats why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Also in New York City, The 74 reports, Across the nation’s largest [school] district, parents of students with disabilities who speak up on behalf of their children say they are being charged with allegations of child abuse or neglect — a tactic advocates say schools use to intimidate parents and coerce them into dropping their concerns.

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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

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. Its also so overloaded the system that workers have no time to find the few children in real danger.

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