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They think they’re going to be working with families, helping families to engage in services, to be self-sufficient, to move on to higher education,” Everett said. This fall, DCF shifted her children’s goal from reunification to adoption, she said. In addition to the enormous harm that does to the children, it deluges caseworkers.
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? The current ombudsman, Christine Alberi, does not. ?
It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy. But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun.
She’s condemned the Indian Child Welfare Act and called for requiring every parent reapplying for “public benefits” (in other words, poor people) whose children are not otherwise seen by a mandated reporter to produce the child for a child abuse inspection - even when there is no allegation of abuse or neglect. Nothing surprising there.
The end of 2021 brought more outstanding reporting on various dark corners of the “child welfare” system. ? How about TANF as a child welfare slush fund. That was encouraged by an odious federal law, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ProPublica has an in-depth story on that one. ?
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.
● 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.
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. Therefore “child welfare” isn’t racist. And it’s quite a dance.
One report revealed that this support and acceptance is associated with greater self-esteem, social support, general health status, less depression, less substance abuse and less suicidal ideation and behaviors among LGBTQIA+ youth. Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.
This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. Through a home visit, social workers seek to assess the living environment and gain insight into the family’s welfare as well as identify any potential safety risks or concerns.
Among the many perverse financial incentives in family policing is the emergence of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families a program intended to help families become self-sufficient as a child welfare slush fund. Unfortunately, the report did not find out how often parents are surrendering adopted children.
This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m. In 2021 ProPublica published a superb expose of this practice.
Here are the most common types of child abuse: Emotional abuse: Mental or emotional abuse typically aims to impact a child’s well-being, self-esteem and self-worth. Physical injuries without an explanation or with an unconvincing story about its occurrence may indicate intentional harm to a child. Behavioral changes.
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But treating the decline in foster care (the direct result of government actions) as a desirable outcome in itself can contribute to a disregard of actual child welfare outcomes like safety and permanency. in determining whether removal is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm to the child due to child abuse or neglect.
Alito’s transgression was compounded by his public disdain of even the thought that SCOTUS should be required to adopt a formal code of ethics ― as evidenced by his bogus insistence that Congress does not have the power to impose mandatory oversight of the on and off the bench conduct of justices. That is as grassroots as it gets.
Readers are invited to practice self-care while navigating this content and to consider reading the findings with a group to engage in collective reflection. Tyrone Howard et al, Beyond Blind Removal: Color Consciousness and Anti-Racism in Los Angeles County Child Welfare.
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In an article about The False Gods of Social Change Kevin Campbell, Cormac Russell and Elizabeth Wendell write: In practice, service users receiving aid from the government and charities exchange freedoms of self-determination, choice, participation, and control for the promise of subsistence, not equity, health, or even dignity.
He co-authors a “news analysis” for the Los Angeles Times that sounds like a pitch by a company selling “predictive analytics” software for child welfare. The post talked about Therolf’s profound discomfort with any suggestion that there is systemic racial bias in child welfare. Second of two parts. Read part one here. County DCFS.
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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