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JULY 20, 2021

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The harms of removal and sometimes also foster care can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

Here’s an excerpt: When we consider the Adoption and Safe Families Act, we situate our analysis not only in the elements of the law, but also the dominant imagination that allowed it to exist and survive with very little opposition. Their analysis of the law’s origins is striking.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog NTDC (National Training and Development) Statewide Train-the-Trainer Training The NTDC (National Training and Development Curriculum) continues to be the preferred curriculum for certifying foster/adoptive parents in Colorado. For more information contact moinette.dickens@state.co.us.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of foster care. Or haven’t been reunited with them? In a state that tears apart families at a rate 70% above the national average, probably quite a few.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

In 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , Gerald O’Brien provides a resource to overcome these challenges, because policy familiarity contributes to social workers’ fundamental understanding of the individuals, communities, institutions, and governments they serve.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

So, of course, leave it to the governor and his human services leadership team to propose doubling down on their failed approach. In my own commentary for CommonWealth Magazine last month, I suggested some alternatives. ?

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

The convening leaders included Rebecca Jones Gaston, the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families commissioner at the Administration for Children and Families within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Children in kinship care are disproportionately kids of color, most often poor and living in rural communities.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

The 12th edition of Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly in 2020. As students of social work or other human services professions, it is essential that we understand how economic well-being—or the lack thereof—shapes people’s lives.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

The 12th edition of Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly in 2020. As students of social work or other human services professions, it is essential that we understand how economic well-being—or the lack thereof—shapes people’s lives.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

They include such bastions of the family policing establishment as the Children’s Defense Fund, the Child Welfare League of America and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. What makes this significant is the groups that signed on to this brief.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Back to Blogs Community Blog Meet the Morgan County DHS Team: 100+ Years of Dedication and Expertise Morgan County Department of Human Services has a wealth of knowledge and experience in their Department of Human Services (DHS) staff. I also really love adoptions and that side of it too.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

This month, the MINDSOURCE Brain Injury Network , within the Colorado Department of Human Services, is celebrating March as Brain Injury Awareness Month, which focuses on prevention and how communities can support people living with brain injuries. MINDSOURCE supports people with brain injury in three core ways.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

Speaking of West Virginia, this horror ended there but, in fairness, the blame rests primarily with Minnesota, where, this Associated Press story reports , the children were first adopted. (If

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In 2024, adoptive parents in Kentucky couldn’t handle the behavior problems of their 15-year-old daughter. They parked her in foster care while waiting to institutionalize her. He ran away from the institution and drowned. Unable to afford the therapy she needed they turned to the state for help.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

And, precisely because most cases we think of when we hear the words “child abuse” are nothing like the horror stories and far more like the case of Logan Marr, the data show that, almost always, family preservation is safer than foster care. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.

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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. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Vermont’s human services agency continued to send teens there — even after the incidents. Kennedy was born July 14, 2014, and was adopted in November 2018. Rose Hill police chief Taylor Parlier on Friday identified the girl as Kennedy Jean Schroer, who is believed to have been about 6 years old when she died.

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All For Kids

MARCH 12, 2025

Many social services in the United States help single-parent households, like the Health and Human Services Agency, Center for Social Advocacy, Family Resource Centers , Community Health Services, Teen Centers, Volunteers of America, the YMCA, and the Boys and Girls Club. If youre not a dad, you can still help!

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Time is running out to submit comments to the Federal Register regarding Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments that representative payees receive for children and youth in foster care. The money is used to reimburse states for the cost of foster care, a practice restricted by federal law.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. At least 45 kids died of abuse or neglect in North Carolina in 2021, according to the U.S. Sarah Font. Why had this happened?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, it’s also safer. That may help explain how a tragedy like this death in foster care could occur. ● 27 of this year. .

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

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 Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

. ● In Hawaii, Honolulu Civil Beat reports, The estate of a 6-year-old Waimanalo girl who died from alleged abuse in perhaps the most notorious child welfare cases in recent Hawaii history is suing her adoptive parents and the state for gross negligence. Her adoptive parents, Isaac and Lehua Kalua, have been charged with murder.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

She was placed with non-relative foster parents shortly after birth. But also shortly after birth, her aunt and uncle, Tige and Karen Nishimoto came forward and said they wanted to adopt the girl. They say they made this request well before the foster parents did. Yet somehow, A.N. In fact it’s as fair and balanced as Fox News.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) breaks these determinants down into five domains: economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment and social and community context.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2024

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, its also safer. Vermonts human services agency continued to send teens there even after the incidents.

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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. Foster care numbers have gone down in Hawaii but not by enough.

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