Adoption Government Self-harm 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 28, 2023
That false narrative, pushed hardest by those who hate birth parents (and yes, that’s the right word) claims that only adoption guarantees a truly permanent home for a child removed from her or his parents. Partly that’s because adoptions sometimes fail. They also take less time to achieve than adoptions.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 3, 2023
It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy. . ● There is no opportunity for any family to opt-out or deny the use of their personal data.
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Community Care
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The panel acknowledges that there are a small number of children who are seriously harmed or die, where bruises have been seen by staff with a responsibility to protect children before more serious injuries have taken place. Is a bruise ‘reasonable cause to suspect significant harm’? Harming children and families.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Landers’ research: “more than 80% of Native American people who were fostered or adopted eventually reunify.” ● In New York, a bill that would allow children continued contact with their parents even after their legal rights to those parents have been terminated has – again – been passed by the State Legislature. That lasted 11 days….
Community Care
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. Image: Dzmitry/Adobe Stock Addressing these requires policy changes and for the government to adopt a digital safeguarding approach.
Gateway Foundation
DECEMBER 19, 2022
State governments offer lotteries to increase revenue and fund projects such as senior services, environmental protection, and education, but lotteries can become harmful when people develop an addiction to them. Compulsive gambling support groups are excellent self-help opportunities. Adopt Healthy Habits.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 21, 2025
Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. Unfortunately, the report did not find out how often parents are surrendering adopted children. But the Maine Monitor took a closer look.
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