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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into foster care.” There is something strange about this example.

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Massachusetts pilots the most promising reform in child welfare. Guess who’s trying to undercut it.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. Cara, who asked to keep her last name private, said she had already been in touch with a domestic violence organization about her ex.

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Morgan County Family Steps Up for Children in Need

CO4Kids

Amias, now six, was adopted in 2022 making them a family of five including their biological children, Piper 15 and Raylan 12. “He Jessica and Marty continue to provide temporary foster care for children in need in their community. Adopting him started a whole journey of us being foster parents too.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending November 8, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Of course, most non-native foster parents who adopt native children are not accused of abusing them. Video is now available of the Family Integrity and Justice Works event documenting the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act: ? But Karin Brulliard of The Washington Post proved me wrong. ?

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Jan 11, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It was followed by a systematic campaign of forced adoption into white homes, spearheaded by, among others, the Child Welfare League of America. Foster-care panic is like a fire. The attempt to use family policing to destroy Native American culture didn’t end with the horrible institutions known as “boarding schools.”

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The failure of the child welfare McLawsuits, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

According to CR: DCS has dramatically reduced its historical over-reliance on non-family institutional placements … The percentage of Tennessee children in foster care placed with families has risen and has been maintained at approximately 88 percent. So it’s no wonder CR’s claims of success don’t always hold up well. Not anymore.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 22, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. 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.