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. New Jersey is one of many states that is increasingly using a practice called “kinship diversion.”

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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. Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

At long last the federal government has released state and national foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022. The snapshot number of children in foster care on any given day, also declined, from 392,000 on Sept. When we curb needless foster care, children get safer!

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Anyone who cares about child and family wellbeing is encouraged to attend! This includes donors, volunteers, advocates, partner organizations, kinship families, resource families including foster and adoptive parents, youth and adult clients, and KVC team members nationwide. Diverse perspectives are key to our progress.

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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

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. Diverse perspectives are key to our progress.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

Renny Arensberg, Executive Vice President of Employee Engagement, has led this initiative by partnering with a team of internal Engagement Champions as well as a broad KVC Experience Team consisting of the leaders of Human Resources; Marketing & Communications; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + Belonging; and Clinical Best Practices.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These figures correlate with the government’s children looked after statistics for March 2020, which showed that the proportion of children in foster care not with a relative or friend had decreased to 57% from 60% in 2018. Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s national director for social care, said the figures painted a “bleak picture”.

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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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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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All For Kids

JANUARY 5, 2025

Parents want to raise their children to be compassionate, caring, and empathetic, so showing them these values in action can be more effective than just explaining them. By exposing your child to diverse people, situations, age groups, and issues, they will be able to relate to others and be more accepting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Ariel Sellers, as she was known before her adoption, was reported missing by her foster/adoptive parents. Ultimately, they adopted her and changed her name. The foster/adoptive parents, who initially reported the child as missing, have been charged with murdering the child. Honolulu police dept.

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All For Kids

MARCH 28, 2024

Adoption is a journey of profound significance, transcending biological ties and reshaping families with enduring love and purpose. Empowering Birth Mothers: Benefits With Adoption For birth mothers, the decision to choose adoption can be marked by complex emotions and challenging circumstances.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

This story also is about the power of newsroom diversity, and the need for more of it. Kelley 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. And if you hit the Star ’s paywall, look for the questionnaire option.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We have forced millions into foster care where the rate of abuse is, in fact, vastly higher than in the general population and, independent studies show , vastly higher than agencies admit in official figures. And did it make children safer? That failure should surprise no one. So, how did that work out?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from foster care. In Dayton, Ohio, a misdiagnosis of child abuse forced infants into foster care for nearly a year.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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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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