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. That’s permanence of, by, and for, the white middle class circa 1955. But as Prof.

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

If you are considering adoption, congratulations! However, the adoption journey can prove difficult to navigate if you don’t have the understanding and resources necessary to guide you through the child adoption process. What are your feelings on international adoption vs. domestic adoption?

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Haaland, the case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act is scheduled to begin TODAY (Nov. Of course, most non-native foster parents who adopt native children are not accused of abusing them. Another post discusses two stories about “shortages” in Massachusetts “child welfare.” 9) at 10:00 am ET. In other news: ?

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

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. Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize child welfare!).

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Have you noticed how the writing of “child welfare” establishment types sounds more frantic lately? Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? Josh Gupta-Kagan. Case in point: The “scholar” so desperate he’s trying to turn the entire concept of “evidence-based” on its head.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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!

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Since he qualified in 1972, he has seen the sector through many changes while wearing different hats: social worker, academic, director of social services, independent reviewer and, notably, the unofficial social work spokesperson on the Peter Connelly (Baby P) case. It would bring the focus back to the community.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. These checklists provide social workers with a visual, step-by-step guide to meticulously track, address, and resolve any issues related to the patient’s safety and living conditions. In most cases, no.

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CO4Kids

JANUARY 31, 2025

This rule change will clarify actions required by county child welfare staff and enhance Colorados Child Welfare response to the unregulated custody transfer of children and youth. The purpose of the rule work is to align Colorado’s rule and practice with the requirements of Colorado House Bill 23-1157.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2023 America’s massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. That’s why we’ve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove” anything. That’s where Arabella died.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. But there are few consequences for wrongly removing children from their homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

. ● In Hawaii, Honolulu Civil Beat reports, The estate of a 6-year-old Waimanalo girl who died from alleged abuse in perhaps the most notorious child welfare cases in recent Hawaii history is suing her adoptive parents and the state for gross negligence. Her adoptive parents, Isaac and Lehua Kalua, have been charged with murder.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

But today’s post focuses on one particularly jarring vignette–the story of a mother, her seven children, and a van–and what it means about how child welfare policy is made and discussed today. David Reed, the Deputy Director of Child Welfare Services in Indiana, introduced the story of this family in his testimony.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Motto of the conference: Advancing human rights in global social work profession The conference is dedicated to 18 years work of Georgian Association of Social Workers. It might include videos on performed activities, social service projects, and etc. Aging Services and Gerontology. Child Welfare.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, because of serious case reviews arising from the unfortunate death of service users over the last decade, there has been a massive pressure on the social work profession to adopt some more robust strategies when working with service users (Payne, 2014). Introducing social theory. Reshaping Social Work.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Welcoming Robert “Tres” Newport as Deputy Director of OCYF The Office of Children, Youth and Families is excited to share that a familiar face will be the new Deputy Director of the Office of Children, Youth, and Families.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By understanding the social determinants of health, policymakers and healthcare professionals can assess what’s needed most in a community and then take the proper measures to work toward a healthy population.

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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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