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. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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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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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

In those instances, we need the care to be delivered in trauma-responsive environments that embrace parent and caregiver engagement throughout the treatment intervention and continually focus on best practice. These residential treatment facilities can have a significant benefit to the young person and their family.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed. However, there is some hope in the form of federal assistance for the child welfare system.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 14, 2024

Find your student’s school district’s Child Welfare Education Liaison (CWEL). Engaging students in the activities that give them joy is a great way to encourage school engagement overall. Protecting our students in foster care’s privacy while letting important school staff know what may be impacting them is a delicate balance.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

This began a shift to reclaim the values-driven culture of KVC’s early days, creating a highly engaged, exceptional place to work. Learn more about work wellbeing and engagement, how KVC has created a positive, supportive culture, and how that culture benefits employees, clients, and supporters alike.

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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

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. Source: U.S. There are three problems with this: ?

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Community Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

Most directors reported increasing demand for children’s services from poor quality housing, homelessness and families experiencing poverty as a result of welfare reforms. The model is being tested in the 10 families first for children pathfinder areas, though ADCS found that some other councils were adopting a similar approach.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

● We begin with this from The New York Times : A sweeping class-action lawsuit filed against New York City on Tuesday argues that the agency that investigates child abuse and neglect routinely engages in unconstitutional practices that traumatize the families it is charged with protecting. States call it “child support.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. That’s not because they want to hurt children, of course. That is almost never true.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

This bill would reauthorize Title IV-B of the Social Security Act to strengthen child welfare services and expand the availability of prevention services. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, which held a hearing on the legislation on July 24, following a year-long review of child welfare programs.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Global Agenda, developed by the International Federation of Social Workers, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the International Council on Social Welfare, calls for multilevel responses to concerns such as forced migration, air pollution, ecoanxiety, and food and water insecurity.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Global Agenda, developed by the International Federation of Social Workers, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the International Council on Social Welfare, calls for multilevel responses to concerns such as forced migration, air pollution, ecoanxiety, and food and water insecurity.

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Community Care

MAY 22, 2024

Announcing the election, Sunak referenced global security, defence spending, NHS investment, funding for local transport, schools standards, welfare reform, immigration levels, sending asylum seekers to Rwanda and his plans to prevent future generations from buying cigarettes.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He began his career at a time when, on the back of the 1968 Seebohm report, pre-existing welfare, children’s and mental health services had just been merged into unified social services departments in local authorities. When something awful happened, I had a relationship with the journalist and was able to engage with them.” ‘A

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

Our work with families focuses on the parents’ readiness to engage in a supportive relationship. Our hope is to inspire social workers to showcase the work they are proud of, making it possible for others to adopt and share their ideas. Child Welfare League of America.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

I had a friend encourage me to apply to KVC, to explore if social work in the child welfare system would be a good fit. She found a job listing from KVC in her search for a career in child welfare after graduating from college. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Drawing on previous studies, it highlighted the challenges for social workers and other practitioners in balancing building a respectful and supportive relationship with parents with adopting a critical and investigative stance.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice. Using firsthand accounts from 200 Black adolescents, Black Male Youth Raised in Public Systems: Engagement, Healing, Hope validates the fears, anxieties, and complexities of these youth.

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KVC

JUNE 23, 2021

Co-Parenting Partnerships Keep Birth Parents Engaged, Focused and Present. The Friedemanns regularly engage with birth parents. “We Not only do we talk to birth parents on the phone, but also engage with them in person as much as possible,” Bobbie explains. “We Carpenter calls it “tag-team parenting.”

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. How do you write a social work article? Recommended Books. Social Work Registration.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. For instance, if your loved one no longer engages in hobbies they used to cherish, it may be indicative of depression. ” Social Engagement: Explore their social interactions.

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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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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). How might we better define issues and engage program participants? Child Welfare. Aging Services and Gerontology.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

Sexual abuse: Sexual abuse is defined as intentionally forcing a child to engage in (or exposing a child to) sexual acts, including penetration, fondling and exposure of body parts. Engaging in risky behavior. Hitting, kicking, burning, shaking and other forceful actions are examples of physical abuse.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, because of serious case reviews arising from the unfortunate death of service users over the last decade, there has been a massive pressure on the social work profession to adopt some more robust strategies when working with service users (Payne, 2014). Welfare and wellbeing: Social value in public policy , Bristol: Policy Press.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

Readers are invited to practice self-care while navigating this content and to consider reading the findings with a group to engage in collective reflection. Tyrone Howard et al, Beyond Blind Removal: Color Consciousness and Anti-Racism in Los Angeles County Child Welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

As America’s racial justice reckoning finally catches up with “child welfare” – or, as it should be called, family policing – the “child welfare establishment is engaged in its own campaign of reputation laundering. They’re still engaging in health terrorism. for decades. But it’s actually worse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

That’s the current name of a child welfare trade association that co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. Yet none of the recent trips to the reputation laundry from child welfare establishment groups includes support for any proposal that would reduce their power.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Social engagement and forming healthy attachments are essential to healthy brain development. They provide family strengthening services , foster care , family reunification services , foster family recruitment and support , adoption , aftercare , outpatient therapy and more. This has an even greater impact on children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

The child welfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. The child welfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. The child welfare equivalent is: “We are anti-racist.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

As America’s racial justice reckoning finally catches up with “child welfare” – or, as it should be called, family policing – the “child welfare establishment is engaged in its own campaign of reputation laundering. Real child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ? James-Brown claims to hunger. ?

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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. Hawaii, 2021: six-year-old Ariel Sellers was allegedly adopted to death.

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