NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

. ● Publisher’s Weekly interviewed Roxanna Asgarian about her forthcoming book, We Were Once a Family , the story of “how flaws in the child welfare system contributed to the 2018 murder-suicide of six children by their adoptive parents.” Mom was late picking her up from school. Good thing they don’t have anything else to do.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In addition, no child should be removed from a safe, loving caregiver to access mental or behavioral health services. At KVC, we are accountable for how well we care for children and families. The federal Child and Family Services Review looks at each state’s foster care performance against national standards.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

Some states explicitly reported that their screening changes were adopted in order to decrease the number of screened in referrals. Kentucky reported adopting a new SDM screening tool designed to decrease the number of referrals that are “incorrectly accepted for investigation.”

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 8, 2025

New York law requires local departments of social services to investigate all fatalities from maltreatment. The states Office of Children and Family Services is required to review each local fatality investigation and issue its own report within six months of the local investigation.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

Ripley previously founded Sequel Youth and Family Services, which became known for the death of 16-year-old Cornelius Frederick while being restrained at a Michigan facility in 2020 and allegations of abuse and neglect at other Sequel facilities. ” Stories like this have been appearing from around the country for years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2023

. ● Reviewing Roxanna Asgarian’s book We Were Once a Family for The Nation, Emi Nietfeld writes: Despite the difficulty of reporting on child welfare, Roxanna Asgarian’s investigation of the Hart murder-suicide, We Were Once a Family , wades through the complexities of this system to render the reality legible to readers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services Trends in Foster Care and Adoption, FFY 2011-2020 Using the same limited measures, OPEGA suggests that child abuse deaths in June 2021 didn’t have much effect, since investigations didn’t increase. Source: U.S. There are three problems with this: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. But Alberi seems to want OCFS to adopt a policy that boils down to: Please pass the salt. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable. But removing children for that reason can be even worse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. So they give these personal effects to the family police agency to pass on to the children. To its credit, New York Citys Administration for Childrens Services has already put a stop to it.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

unless you're a child taken by the Maine family police - in which case you might never go home. Photo by Jimmy Emerson) The Maine Morning Star has a good story about some data from Maines family police agency, the Office of Child and Family Services. The reason for that big if has to do with the data sources.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

On July 13, 2021, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors passed a motion requiring the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) to pilot the blind removal concept. In Compton-Carson, the final decision was made in the blind removal meeting between the social worker, supervisor and case reviewer.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Or will they uphold their commitments to child safety through family preservation? -- Based on her extensive research Prof. 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.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Here are the services we are providing at each of our locations to further this mission: KVC Kansas KVC Kansas helps over 12,000 children and their families each year. KVC Kentucky KVC Kentucky has been a forerunner in mental and behavioral health, substance use treatment and child welfare services for families in crisis for 25 years.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

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. Harmony was returned to her mother at seven months, and removed again at ten months.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Yet Therolf and Hamilton present it not just as a solution to the problems plaguing the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but the only viable solution. It was tried first in criminal justice – and proven to be racially biased. Watch out for those bad apples Notice the “few bad apples”-type framing here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2025

Theres some good news from California where, The Imprint reports , the first family defense clinic on the West Coast will open at the University of California Berkeley. Among the many barriers to placing children with relatives instead of strangers: hyper-strict licensing requirements geared to middle-class creature comforts.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

In 2019, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services touted the brand-new Aunt Marthas Integrated Care Center as a national model. The headline on the story is: White West Virginia couple accused of adopting Black children and forcing them to work as slaves. In 2016 the entire residential program was shut down.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

That led to the tragedy exposed in this documentary from WRAL-TV, a tragedy allegedly including the murder of one of her children by the foster parent who adopted them. Other adopted foster children allegedly were tortured. I have a blog post with a link to the documentary and some additional context. Culprits include U.S.

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