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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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Modern Family Shares Their Adoption Story Three years ago Victoria was working as a technology teacher at a school in Colorado Springs. Now, the three siblings are 14, 12 and 10, and were officially adopted by Victoria and Aaron in 2021. They had never gone camping; now they are addicted.

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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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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

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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Children’s Defense Fund

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The findings, which come from Childrens Defense Fund-Ohio’s (CDF-Ohio) 2024 Kids Count Data Profiles , show it would be wise for Ohio to adopt some of the youth-based budget proposals presented by Governor Mike DeWine.

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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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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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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 22, 2022

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), in collaboration with the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), has launched its latest iteration of the Global Standards for Social Work Education and Training. The IASSW Task Force on the Global Standards (2020).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The reality is we are moving kids night to night, we’re driving kids across the state for one-night placements to get them to school, we’re putting bandages on situations.”… This fall, DCF shifted her children’s goal from reunification to adoption, she said.

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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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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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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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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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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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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Policy and Advocacy for Peace building, Environmental and Social Justice: Influencing policies that promote environmental sustainability and social equity.

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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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The Guardian

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Judge says killers home schooled Sara as a ruse to hide evidence of 10-year-olds repeated beatings A senior judge who jailed the killers of Sara Sharif has said the 10-year-olds murder starkly illustrates the dangers of parents automatically being able to home school their children. Continue reading.

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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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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 15, 2023

CWLA’s subsequent apology rings hollow, since they continue to support racist laws like the Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.) It’s not as if anyone tried to hide it.

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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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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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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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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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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

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. They can send this child to better schools. And so, Mossaides concludes A decision to explore adoption for Harmony should have been pursued earlier. She has repeatedly misused her power and privilege.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

? I’ve never before led with a review of a novel, but Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers is no ordinary novel. You might think of The School for Good Mothers when you read this column in The Imprint from Former Juvenile Court Judge Karen Baynes-Dunning. It’s called “Stop Blaming the Uncooperative Mother.”

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

It emphasizes the need for social workers to adopt innovative, community-led approaches grounded in indigenous wisdom and harmonious coexistence with nature. The post World Social Work Day 2024 : Message from IASSW President first appeared on International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW).

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JUNE 30, 2023

I can also envision social work faculty and staff applying these guidelines to the adoption of new accreditation standards and policies and sharing them with institutional leadership when asking for support and resources. She can be reached via email at freedman121@comcast.net.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

As a student at Spelman College in Georgia, she earned a scholarship to study abroad at such notable schools as the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Born in South Carolina in 1939, Marian soon achieved academic excellence. She began her law practice at the NAACP, focusing on racial justice.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

As a student at Spelman College in Georgia, she earned a scholarship to study abroad at such notable schools as the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Born in South Carolina in 1939, Marian soon achieved academic excellence. She began her law practice at the NAACP, focusing on racial justice.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 13, 2022

Wade somehow is not a problem because, you know, foster care: But the foster system and adoption are far from panaceas. Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah responds to those claiming the overturning of Roe v.

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