Adoption Foster Care Justice and Corrections 
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.” Texas did not submit commentary for FFY 2023.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack The Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, Bridget McCormack, has written a dissent in a case involving termination of a child’s rights to her parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights). In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
But let’s assume, for the moment, the raw data are correct. Department of Justice for bias against the disabled. But for foster care entries, there is another, less unreliable database, known as AFCARS, Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System. This analysis gives Drake et al.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 25, 2022
It was tried first in criminal justice – and proven to be racially biased. could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in foster care. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. Is the racial justice movement really too influential? Anthony Avalos.
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.
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. Its sites like this one that are entrusted to care for our most vulnerable youth. Not that wed ever say we told you so.)
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