Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 8, 2025

It soon came out that school staff had made multiple calls to the state child abuse hotline during the 16 months before Thomas death, describing how he and his brother were starved, beaten and forced to sleep in a garage and urinate upon themselves. School staff observed the children eating food from the trash and the floor.

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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. What’s the difference between adoption and those other options?

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Written by: Keila Asaoka The importance of bonding with an adopted child is supported by scientific research, which emphasizes the significant impact of a supportive relationship on a child’s ability to thrive in the face of adversity. The post The Importance of Bonding with an Adoptive Child appeared first on All For Kids.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

These five adoption stories couldn’t help but bring a smile to our faces, and we hope they bring one to yours too! Retirees Find Joy in Adoption As a retired couple, Al and Jan still had the desire to have a child in their life but knew that an infant or toddler might not be the best fit. Helping Hand Home For Children 3.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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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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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) has merged responsibilities for children’s social care and schools under new minister Kelly Tolhurst. In line with previous ministers for schools, her role will be at the mid-ranking minister of state level, a more senior post than the junior ministerial status held by her five social care predecessors.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Font also is part of a group that rushed to defend the right of a self-proclaimed “race realist” University of Pennsylvania Law School professor to exchange rants with Tucker Carlson – without one word condemning the content of those rants. What’s the difference between adoption and those other options? Nothing surprising there.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. Learn more about the rewarding process of becoming a Kansas foster or adoptive parent here. We also provide independent living services for older youth.

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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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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Over the last three years, she has cared for seven medically fragile children, many of whom have returned home and one whom she adopted. Vera’s daughter, seven-year-old Evelyn, has been with her since 2021 and was just adopted in July. Evelyn is wheelchair bound and has very high medical needs requiring nursing care 24 hours a day.

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Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

A scheme placing social workers in schools does not reduce children’s need for statutory social care services, one of the largest ever randomised controlled trials carried out in the sector has found. We know that looked after children often need additional support in school. This difference was not statistically significant.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The event was sponsored by The Silver School of Social Work at New York University and the University of Buffalo School of Social Work, in addition to the Crown School. Dr. Guterman is also a former dean of the Crown School. Summit proceedings are being compiled and will be shared in the coming weeks.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) are delighted to launch the theme for the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development 2024: “ Buen Vivir: Shared Future for Transformative Change “.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

A couple of weeks ago, I linked to a review of Jessamine Chan’s novel The School for Good Mothers The reviewer noted the novel’s “closeness to reality.” But in this webinar, from the University of Baltimore School of Law, you can see what primary prevention should be all about. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s because “looking their best helps students feel their best as they head back to school.” 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.”

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As we approach World Social Work Day 2024, we are excited to unveil the theme: “Buen Vivir: Shared Future for Transformative Change”, which is rooted in the [link] drEHP and has been developed in partnership with the International Association of Schools of Social Work as well as the International Council on Social Welfare.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The nation’s schools of social work will confer over 19,000 undergraduate social work degrees this academic year. Native American children who were taken from their parents and international adoptions where many children totally lost their cultural identity when they gained US citizenship are only two examples.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

If the family doesnt have a protection plan and there are no identified caregivers, a school or others will make a referral to the county. I know children who came home from school, and their parents never came home. Can teachers be listed as an emergency contact at a school if parents are not available or have been detained?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Hey, remember when New York City schools and the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, promised that this year they wouldn’t traumatize children and families by sending caseworkers to investigate them on “educational neglect” charges just because they felt it was still unsafe to send them to in-person classes?

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

In a video made by the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business, Ripley explained that “you can make money in this business if you control staffing.” The Committee’s own invited witness, Elizabeth Manley of the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, testified about the need for these programs.

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CCRC

JANUARY 21, 2025

The $322 Billion budget introduces no cuts to core programs, and maintains initiatives to fully implement Universal Transitional Kindergarten, expand after school and summer school programs, and Universal school meals.

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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. ? Of course, the city’s family policing agency offered up all the usual excuses. But one of the leading scholars of the Fourth Amendment and family policing, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

If you need an example of how backward Massachusetts is already, consider this case from Boston : A 17-year-old from a family with a history of strokes goes to the school nurse saying he feels weak, shaky and numb. I have a blog post about it. ? But the nurse refuses to believe it’s a stroke and refuses to call 911. In the other , Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The family police took the noble concept of permanence and confused it with permanence in only one form – the paper permanence of formal adoption by strangers. It opted for the paper permanence of adoption, in which often a child is cut off from Mom and Dad to the point of doing everything possible to eradicate them from that child’s life.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

The adoptive parents the family policing system preferred to the grandfather have been charged with their murder. ? My brother, by contrast, was deemed too emotionally troubled to be placed with a family following the sudden death of his adopted mother and was put in a state-run institution. The children are dead.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Imprint asks if the new Secretary of the Interior, Doug Berman will continue the ongoing project to document the harms of Indian boarding schools? 11 specific victims have come forward with testimonies detailing severe physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.

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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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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Adoption, foster home recruitment, and reunification services The act provides 8 million dollars in competitive grants to support the recruitment and retention of highly qualified foster families. They can enroll children in after-school activities and more to help promote a sense of normalcy in a tumultuous time.

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KVC

MAY 19, 2023

She was adopted, but the family was not able to stay together. Robin’s Early Childhood and Adoption In 1988, Robin was born in the historic city of Philadelphia. Eventually, the couple finalized their adoption of Robin and her brother. Robin’s adoptive father contracted Hepatitis C before it was curable.

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Shelter, Inc

MAY 11, 2021

First, the goals of Shelter’s Foster Care Programs are different from adoption agencies. The purpose of adoption agencies is to facilitate adoptions between birth parents and adoptive parents. Adoption is a forever commitment. Two things immediately came to her mind. Honore has thrived with her foster family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Among those sounding increasingly frantic is Richard Barth, former dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland. Misreading We Were Once a Family Barth similarly misunderstood We Were Once a Family , Roxanna Asgarian’s brilliant book about Black children who were adopted to death by their white foster/adoptive parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Robert Latham, associate director at the Children & Youth Law Clinic of the University of Miami Law School, who wrote this on his excellent Blog: And lest you think this law has no teeth, the law prevents admission of any statement made by a parent without the notice being given. So we turn for analysis to Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To Kennedy was born July 14, 2014, and was adopted in November 2018.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

had written, “I am a bad kid” and “I need to behave at school or Mommy and Daddy will be arrested.” In the Albany Times Union leaders of an adoptive and foster parents group explain why ransom should be abolished. ● .: once outgoing and cheerful, [Y.A.] has been in therapy, her parents said, and blames herself for the investigations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

Vivek Sankaran, of the University of Michigan School of Law , to blast the longstanding consent decree won as a result of one of those awful McLawsuits brought by the group that calls itself “Children’s Rights.” The lawsuit called for strengthening enforcement of the Adoption and Safe Families Act.

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