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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.

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Crisis Prevention and Intervention in the Age of COVID-19

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Domestic violence. Domestic Violence. Prior to the pandemic, domestic violence was already a worldwide issue. Sadly, these factors have led to an increase in domestic violence reports. global increase in reported cases of domestic violence. In the United States, they found an 8.1%

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● And finally, from WRAL-TV: State and Smithfield police are investigating a report from a 7-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted inside the Johnston County Department of Social Services building by a 17-year-old boy. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. That’s where Arabella died.

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Child Welfare Update: February 2024

Child Welfare Monitor

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. It would bar school districts and Health and Human Services from investigating educational neglect in a homeschool setting.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. But the Administration for Childrens Services considers itself free to harass domestic violence victims and their children by putting them under constant surveillance.

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Celebrating Four Colorado Adoptive Families

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Back to Blogs News & Press Celebrating Four Colorado Adoptive Families November is National Adoption Month DENVER (Nov. 4, 2024) — In honor of National Adoption Month, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) is spotlighting four incredible families who adopted seven Colorado children and youth from foster or kinship care.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.