NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Social Work and self-proclaimed “child welfare scholar” seeks to run from the fact that the system he’s done so much to build and maintain – the family policing system – has failed. That’s why you’re in foster care.” Professor Barth may not understand this. Emphasis added.]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. They move to change the case goal for the children from reunification to adoption. Dad must jump through the usual hoops, but, as is so often the case, it’s never enough.

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Photo by Alan Levine When children are taken from their parents forever and those children are adopted by strangers, the parents often want to leave their children something to remember them by, perhaps a cherished keepsake or a family photo from happier times. That’s permanence of, by, and for, the white middle class circa 1955. But as Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Tarek Ismail of the City University of New York School of Law, rebutted them in this column for the New York Daily News. ? The story also mentions, in passing, another intriguing part of the proposal: A first effort to entice states to count how many children they force into “hidden foster care.” And finally … ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Field Center was co-founded by the late Richard Gelles, who claimed responsibility for writing the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act and was among the most fanatical devotees of a take-the-child-and-run approach to “child welfare.” It’s called “The Good Stuff in Child Welfare” and it comes from The Field Center.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Or, as bad or worse, it might go to an outfit like Chapin Hall (see the item below about whitewashing abuse in foster care). There are horrifying details about the sexual assault of two young teenagers in Texas foster care. . That's certainly a step forward. One is 16, the other 13. I have a blog post about it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

A now-defunct publication that purported to advise journalists on how to cover child welfare actually said: “Do the fatality series” – with what seemed like the implication that it should be done the usual way: by scapegoating efforts to keep families together and setting off a foster-care panic.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Saturday marked a tragic milestone – the 25 th anniversary of a law that has harmed millions of children, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Sarah Katz, director of the Family Law Litigation Clinic at Temple University, in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “A federal law has been destroying families for 25 years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

But in this webinar, from the University of Baltimore School of Law, you can see what primary prevention should be all about. ? That’s what they’ve done with the concept of “primary prevention” – turning it into another excuse to load families down with meaningless “counseling” and “parenting education.”

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. Casey Foundation, Child Trends and Dr. Glenn Saxe of New York University.

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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

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. ● And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof. I missed this one last month: Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It’s part of the special issue of Family Integrity and Justice Quarterly devoted to the harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? The American University Law Review is sponsoring this online event on Feb. It’s called “Stop Blaming the Uncooperative Mother.” Along similar lines, Prof. on the ACLU At Liberty podcast.

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

She described the award as a “real shock”, adding: “I am proud to be recognised like this, but not just for myself, it’s for the council, for the work it does and also recognition for the social care industry and how important a role we have.”

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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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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

As a student at Spelman College in Georgia, she earned a scholarship to study abroad at such notable schools as the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Born in South Carolina in 1939, Marian soon achieved academic excellence.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

As a student at Spelman College in Georgia, she earned a scholarship to study abroad at such notable schools as the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Born in South Carolina in 1939, Marian soon achieved academic excellence.

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yolanda has also worked for the Foster Care & Adoptive Services Division where she provided oversight and support to foster parents, conducted training for kinship providers, facilitated support groups, licensed kinship foster homes and relicensed foster homes.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. It also strengthens post-adoption services. The January briefing was one of several congressional briefings CRISP organized to support foster care legislation. Davis’s office.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 13, 2023

If enacted, the bill would expand state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. We will also hear from Duane Price, a young man with experience in foster care whose life was enhanced by getting a car.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

An MSW graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice, Gaston oversees the Children’s Bureau and its almost $10 billion budget. He shared stories about his experiences being homeless, couch surfing, and moving from one foster care placement to the next until he eventually connected with family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

In the Albany Times Union , Madelyn Freundlich, policy research consultant for the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York writes in support of legislation that would replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Mixed history Councils working together across regions to commission care placements is nothing new. A 2015 study by Oxford Brookes University for the DfE identified 35 consortia or partnerships involved in commissioning care placements, encompassing the majority of councils.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Wait until you read what the white transracial adoptive parent has to say. ? MartinGuggenheim, who founded the nation’s first family defense clinic at New York University School of Law (and who also is president of NCCPR). ? The ABA has put some of the presentations online – including the keynote from Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In the case of Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, they didn’t just ignore what family policing was doing to families, they spent decades actively undermining efforts to keep families together – including leading efforts to deny the role of racial bias. Today (Nov. The report's author, Hina Naveed, will discuss it at a webinar on Nov.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

ET, Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child, discusses her outstanding book and the intersection of law, journalism and social justice at this event sponsored by the New York University School of Law Forum. ? At the federal level the law that makes everything worse is the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Their decision to care for a child is often made at times of family crisis, triggering heightened stress and anxiety, with little planning or preparation. They have not made a proactive choice to become a foster carer or adopter, but find themselves in a situation, not of their own choosing, but wishing to safeguard a child they love.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And he’ll be taking the act to the University of Pennsylvania later this month. s second claim is that once reported and screened in for investigation, workers are no more likely, and possibly a little less likely, to “substantiate” an allegation and place a child in foster care when the family is Black than when the family is white.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I’m surprised Putnam-Hornstein, who holds a named professorship at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, didn’t seem to know it. She first coined the phrase “turn mandated reporters into mandated supporters.” That’s what the phrase means.

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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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Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Her intersectionality and affiliation with marginalized identities such as being an undocumented Salvadoran female, LGBTQ+, foster youth, homeless, and cycling in and out of juvenile jails, have shaped the way she sees social issues. She spent half of her life in foster care, struggling with substance abuse. She now has an A.A.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The event is being presented in conjunction with the Congressional Social Work Caucus and the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth. The discussion will be moderated by CRISP Legislative Director Dr. Angelique Day, an associate professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work who is a descendant of the Ho Chunk Nation.

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