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.

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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.

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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!).

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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.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? We begin this week not just with one story but with an entire magazine.

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