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As foster care removals plummet, where’s the promised help for families?

Child Welfare Monitor

Unfortunately, there seems to be little to no interest on the part of the federal Children’s Bureau, Members of Congress, advocates, or the media in whether such services are actually being provided. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? Records that have to be “admitted” into the database [but may not have been] include substance abuse records, visitation records and medical records. Or haven’t been reunited with them? Particularly black and brown communities."

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6 Principles of Trauma-Informed Care

Relias

Trauma-informed care is an approach to health and social services that recognizes the impact of trauma on people’s lives. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), six key principles guide trauma-informed care. What are the 6 principles of trauma-informed care?

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“Maybe we're just too damn intrusive": Tracing the take-the-child-and-run mentality that has endangered Massachusetts children for more than a century

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! That, too, fails for several reasons.