NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

So, for example, researchers for the Casey Family Programs Northwest Foster Care Alumni study interviewed 479 foster care alumni in Oregon and Washington State – including alumni of Casey’s own program, considered to be a model program. No actual foster youth will be interviewed about her or his own experiences.

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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

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. “It

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. On 3 April 1974, the first ever issue of Community Care was published.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

They were based on interviews with 44 parents of 59 children from 13 local authorities in England and Wales. Focus groups put forward parents’ joint recommendations on the reform of supervision orders based on the key recommendations arising from the individual interviews.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding. Barriers to implementation Participants reported challenges and barriers to adoption and implementation of digital safeguarding at both national and local level.

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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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Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

A trauma-informed approach to birth trauma To help your clients cope with and overcome the effects of birth trauma, it’s important that your organization adopt a trauma-informed approach to care. The goal of trauma-informed care (TIC) is to prevent traumatization, or re-traumatization.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While agile working was received positively when it involved adequate desk space, spaces for quite and concentrated work and good access to peer support, this was rare, found the research by social work academics at the University of Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian University. Stress and lack of peer support.

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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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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. I’ll just send someone out to pick a bunch of well-intentioned amateurs to do it for free!

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. There are several social work professional articles on various topics.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation. FAMILY FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE HOMES Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother because they witnessed domestic violence. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Among the enormous harms of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is a dramatic escalation in the number of times children’s rights to their parents are terminated. In the journal Social Work , Professors Mical Raz and Frank Edwards argue that TPR is not a rare event that universally serves as proxy for parental unfitness.

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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. The state allowed the couple to retain custody of their foster children and later adopt them despite nearly 20 complaints of misconduct. That needs to stop."

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. Decades later, Stacy Torres, now a professor of sociology at the University of California, San Francisco, writes in Vital City that the wounds have not healed. He was institutionalized.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2025

Theres some good news from California where, The Imprint reports , the first family defense clinic on the West Coast will open at the University of California Berkeley.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. 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.

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