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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. The report claims that parents have the right to refuse to let their children be interviewed.
Child Welfare Monitor
JULY 22, 2024
The four companies include three profit making corporations (United Health Services, Acadia Healthcare, and Vivant Behavioral Healthcare), and one nonprofit, Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health. Several details stand out, all of them involving the company called Vivant and its CEO, John “Jay” Ripley.
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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.
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.
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. ” But majorities of the staff interviewed expressed negative views about changes brought about by the pilot.
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.
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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