Adoption Substance Abuse Welfare 
Child Welfare Monitor
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
by Patty Flores I am grateful to be publishing this essay by a gifted and needed young voice in the child welfare space. She spent half of her life in foster care, struggling with substance abuse. Youth with lived experiences in foster care face countless challenges, even when the abuse finally stops – one way or another.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
According to the story, Toscano’s husband was also cited for substance abuse, according to DCF records she shared with the Globe. This fall, DCF shifted her children’s goal from reunification to adoption, she said. Ah, but DCF would surely remind us, that wasn’t the only reason. This is not an aberration.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. So birth parents become, at best, nonentities, at worst those awful people their foster or adoptive parent friends told them about. That’s not correct.
Child Welfare Monitor
JULY 8, 2024
The newest report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) showed that the number of children in foster care dropped to 368,530 on September in 2022–a drop of 5.8 Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize child welfare!).
KVC
APRIL 18, 2024
KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.
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.
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! That, too, fails for several reasons.
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