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. Justice McCormack is retiring, and what may be her final opinion in a family policing case goes well beyond any one case. But in some cases, correcting such conditions is, literally, impossible.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. That’s not correct.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

That’s because it’s meant specifically for those who have read a study concocted by a who’s who of family policing’s “caucus of denial” – those who claim that, somehow, child welfare is magically immune from the racism that infects every other aspect of American life. But let’s assume, for the moment, the raw data are correct.

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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. How do you write a social work article?

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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. No arrests of those who tortured and murdered Begidu, and no demonstrations demanding justice. Begidu and his biological sister were adopted from Ethiopia by the Morrises, when he was about two years old.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

But with states around the country changing law, policy and practice to reduce child welfare agencies’ footprint, the number of “child maltreatment victims” cited by ACF is likely more a reflection of policy and practice than an indicator of actual maltreatment. Exhibit S-2 summarizes the findings of the newest report.

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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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