NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. ● As is so often the case, the professor’s comments minimize the harm of one of the worst “adverse childhood experiences” a child can endure – being torn from everyone s/he knows and loves and thrown into foster care. There’s still more about the harm of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. Of all the cases of children forced into Massachusetts foster care in 2021, 63% did not even involve an allegation of substance use.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from foster care. In Dayton, Ohio, a misdiagnosis of child abuse forced infants into foster care for nearly a year.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care. An older teen was there to spend time with their baby brother who was adopted. If they, decide to meet up with the other adoptive family, brilliant.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

While researching my book, I interviewed a group of stewards for the caseworkers’ union in Massachusetts. So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. She said no.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

The researchers who wrote the article for JAMA Pediatrics debunking the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth discuss their findings in this interview. Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him.

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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

Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. Kennedy was born July 14, 2014, and was adopted in November 2018. Not only for me personally, but for all the people, especially Black women, who’ve been devalued in these systems.” This story from The Imprint has a good summary of Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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Jaeran Kim

AUGUST 11, 2017

I was fortunate to be asked to present at the Pact adoption family camp. I presented a keynote about school issues based on the article I published with Pact’s Executive Director Beth Hall for the book Transracial and Intercountry Adoption.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

KVC case managers Victoria Clark, Dalton Shump, and Micah McEwan all work for the Olathe, Kansas office, where they coordinate and support the day-to-day needs of children and teens in foster care and their families. We interviewed them to learn more about what it’s like to serve in these important roles with KVC. Dalton Shump.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At the federal level the law that makes everything worse is the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Rise interviews Rutgers Prof. The Imprint reports on a bill that would make ASFA less awful. ? But guess who took away the kids in the first place. I have the answer in this blog post. ?

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Children also benefited from early and authoritative decisions to escalate cases to pre-proceedings and care proceedings – though some children faced delays in going into care and were left in neglectful circumstances for too long. ‘Too many changes of social worker’ for children in care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

There’s a new study out from Rutgers University concerning children placed in foster care for 30 days or less – placements that always raise the question: If you could return the child in 30 days why did you take the child at all? Here’s the bad news: It took a decision of the Arizona Supreme Court to get this done.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Foundations study, based on survey responses from 80 councils (52% of the total), interviews with staff from 35 of these and round table discussions with 31 kinship carers, examined how far authorities provided support to the different types of kinship carer.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In this BBC interview , Taliah Drayak of the Parents, Families and Allies Network describes what it’s done to children and families – including her own. Speaking of really awful laws and policies, The Imprint has an overview of efforts to repeal, or at least amend, one of the worst: the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ProPublica reports that The new rules would also restrict states from spending TANF funds on child protective services investigations, foster care or any other programs that don’t meet the fundamental purposes of welfare: strengthening poor families and keeping them together. Sarah Font. But she did not see her mother. she wondered.

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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. More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

26) 1:00 pm ET: Movement for Family Power is sponsoring a teach-in on Resisting the Family Police: Fourth Amendment Challenges and Possibilities NOVEMBER 2, 2:00 pm ET: Family Integrity and Justice Works kicks off a National Campaign to Address the Harms Caused by Adoption and Safe Families Act: Reimaging Permanency.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

We should remove criminalization of women who are pregnant and taking drugs," Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said in an interview. Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) That needs to stop."

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

An adoptive mother is charged with murder, torture, and crimes straight out of a horror film nightmare. They were allegedly adopted to death. The starvation, torture, murder and other horrors all were allegedly orchestrated by Avantae Deven, the foster mother who adopted them. Thats an aberration. And this story.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into foster care.” There is something strange about this example.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

One reform proposal–known as “blind removal”–seemed blessedly simple: just hide the race and ethnicity of a child being considered for placement in foster care, and racial differences in child removal will disappear. million times. million times.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2022

Did the entire American Bar Association just go on record calling for the repeal of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Multi-Ethnic Placement Act? Carolina Public Press brings readers up to date with this excellent primer on how hidden foster care worked, and why it did so much harm. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2025

Dreadful decisions by two governors and vile grandstanding from one current and one former public official plunged the state into foster-care panic. The Maine Monitor reports that many parents wait weeks or months for a defense attorney even to be assigned dramatically prolonging childrens time in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

It took 18 months of reporting, more than 150 interviews, and a lawsuit to obtain relevant documents. Agencies don’t use that term, of course, they call it “child support” to reimburse them for the cost of “caring” for the children.) But it’s also, to use that awful word from blurbs about thrillers: unputdownable.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do. Here’s an excerpt: … It’s not acceptable in most family courts to explicitly argue that, if you have more material advantages to provide a child, you should get to adopt him or her.

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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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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. The headline on the story is: White West Virginia couple accused of adopting Black children and forcing them to work as slaves.

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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. In fact it’s as fair and balanced as Fox News.

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