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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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 25, 2025

Ten-year-old Begidu Morris died more than three years ago of horrific child abuse by his parents, who adopted him from Ethiopia. Begidu and his biological sister were adopted from Ethiopia by the Morrises, when he was about two years old. Begidus sister was re-adopted by another family in Florida in 2019.

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Adoption Justice and Corrections Schools Child Welfare 224

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

But when it comes to reuniting families separated by government, there’s a place with a far worse record: the Commonwealth of Virginia and its county child protective services agencies. In Virginia, a child torn from his parents is more likely to wind up adopted by total strangers than reunified. Listen again to their anguished cries.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Administration Welfare 102

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. Thats why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case.

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Community Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

Most directors reported increasing demand for children’s services from poor quality housing, homelessness and families experiencing poverty as a result of welfare reforms. The model is being tested in the 10 families first for children pathfinder areas, though ADCS found that some other councils were adopting a similar approach.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For decades she led what should be called child welfare’s “caucus of denial” – that group which insists practitioners of “child welfare” somehow are so much better than everyone else that they have created the one and only field in American life magically immune from racism. Image created by openart.ai 204, emphasis in original].

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Linda Rosenthal, a Democrat from Manhattan, who noted cases of women who were reported to child welfare over positive tests caused by poppy seeds and prescribed medications. But the reason this item is here is because when it comes to this kind of massive, dangerous invasion of privacy the trendsetter is – child welfare.

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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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Foster Care Self-harm Child Welfare Confidentiality 78

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” And the government could still achieve the alleged purpose of this grant.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

They even acknowledged their own role in “contributing to racism in the legal field” in general and “within the child welfare legal field in particular…” Offhand, I can’t think of an organization that says “establishment” more than the American Bar Association. The topic is “anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing. Maria Mossaides is a woman of enormous power and privilege.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 7, 2022

Ever since the awful day 25 years ago when what would become the Adoption and Safe Families Act passed the House of Representatives, I’ve known that only one Democrat – Rep. I agree that we all can recite a litany of cases of children who have been abused, and neglected by parents and for whom expedited adoption is fully justified.

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Child Welfare Adoption Foster Care Welfare 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality. Enter the Fearmonger-in-Chief Mass. Then it was back to the fearmongering.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2022

The decline in the number of adoptions since 2015 is continuing while children are waiting longer on average to be placed despite an expanding pool of approved adopters, official figures show. for regional adoption agencies, from 2022-25, sparking renewed calls for investment in the rest of the care system. Related articles.

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Adoption Government Diversity Disability 65

KVC

MARCH 30, 2022

Nearly one-quarter will be adopted, many by their foster parents. On the other hand, more than 15,000 18-year-olds age out of the foster care system each year without reuniting with their families or being adopted. Each year foster homes close due to adoption or personal circumstance. LGBTQIA+ children are also over-represented.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Adoption Welfare 119

All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

If you are considering adoption, congratulations! However, the adoption journey can prove difficult to navigate if you don’t have the understanding and resources necessary to guide you through the child adoption process. What are your feelings on international adoption vs. domestic adoption?

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Adoption Foster Care Interviewing Child Welfare 52

Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. This was because of an increasing focus on the role of race in identity formation and the challenges of transracial adoptions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

It turns out, Paris Hilton knows more about "residential treatment facilities" than at least one self-proclaimed "child welfare scholar." By pretending that this industry has nothing to do with his sacred, beloved “child welfare” system. And apparently [if Barth is right] the entire federal government got its regulations wrong, too.

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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. Mical Raz in The Washington Post: “Our adoption policies have harmed families and children. The Clinton-era Adoption and Safe Families Act passed 25 years ago.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

In the decades, indeed in the centuries before passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act, U.S. child welfare” policy toward Native Americans fit that definition. ICWA is often described as the “gold standard” for “child welfare” law and policy. It’s not as if anyone tried to hide it.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize child welfare!).

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They urged the Supreme Court to “uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act’s constitutionality in all respects.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In Kansas, when the state has terminated parental rights and the state is looking for an adoptive home, state law also has an extremely mild preference for kin. It would eliminate even the extremely mild preference for relatives in existing law at any point in the adoption process. Emphasis added.] In fact, the law goes even further.

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Foster Care Adoption Child Welfare Welfare 96

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

New data from Pennsylvania confirm: When America’s child welfare establishment fearmongers predicted that COVID would bring on a “pandemic of child abuse” it was just the usual health terrorism. I heard it from the leader of a group that admits to having practiced it. They say they've stopped. It didn’t happen.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The previous round-up began by comparing a real-life case to the depiction of a dystopian child welfare surveillance state portrayed in Jessamine Chan’s novel The School for Good Mothers Now, Let Grow has a comprehensive comparison between the novel and the real world of family policing. It is not reassuring. ?

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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.

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Foster Care Adoption Self-harm Psychology 76

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Some might say it depicts a dystopian future child welfare surveillance state. 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. ? There’s also a right way and a wrong way to report on the use of “predictive analytics” in child welfare.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

That much is clear to anyone who bothers to look at the data that New Jersey shares with the federal government through the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) and which the federal Children’s Bureau shares through its annual Child Maltreatment reports.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

● Take a step back, see – and hear – how the family policing system really works in this report from NPR, featuring perspectives from JMAC for Families and NCCPR: ● You know how defenders of computerized racial profiling in family policing (more accurate terms than “predictive analytics” in “child welfare”) defend their biased algorithms by a.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

This bill would reauthorize Title IV-B of the Social Security Act to strengthen child welfare services and expand the availability of prevention services. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, which held a hearing on the legislation on July 24, following a year-long review of child welfare programs.

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Community Care

MAY 22, 2024

Announcing the election, Sunak referenced global security, defence spending, NHS investment, funding for local transport, schools standards, welfare reform, immigration levels, sending asylum seekers to Rwanda and his plans to prevent future generations from buying cigarettes. Taking this forward will be a decision for the next government.

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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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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Practitioners from the communities have produced a guide to carrying out welfare enquiries to help social workers and others support families affected by the measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. ” Welfare enquiries ‘not routinely carried out’. “So social workers need to separate those two things.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. With no foster families or treatment centers available, Alex ended up spending the night in a child welfare office. Across the U.S., Let’s rewind.

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