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When it comes to the problems plaguing “child welfare” wrongful removal drives everything else – including caseworker turnover. Case in point: Massachusetts

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The reality is we are moving kids night to night, we’re driving kids across the state for one-night placements to get them to school, we’re putting bandages on situations.”… This fall, DCF shifted her children’s goal from reunification to adoption, she said.

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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

CO4Kids

If the family doesnt have a protection plan and there are no identified caregivers, a school or others will make a referral to the county. I know children who came home from school, and their parents never came home. Can teachers be listed as an emergency contact at a school if parents are not available or have been detained?

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center Conference: Attn: Family Police: Children's "well-being" is none of your damn business!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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Crisis Prevention and Intervention in the Age of COVID-19

Relias

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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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 25, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Remember when children could walk home from school by themselves or even play in a playground without parents hovering over them? One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.

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Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies

Social Work Haven

School social work intervention strategies. A story or book can be written for the child to explain why they were adopted or put in care to provoke open conversations and confirm that the situation was not their fault. What are some school social work intervention strategies? Domestic violence. Davies (Ed.),