NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed.

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

He has been the editor for the journal Child Welfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. She has nearly three decades of experience at the center and in government.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

This bill would reauthorize Title IV-B of the Social Security Act to strengthen child welfare services and expand the availability of prevention services. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, which held a hearing on the legislation on July 24, following a year-long review of child welfare programs.

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Brightpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

1] ” This unapologetic advocacy is sparking mainstream conversations throughout the U.S. 7] ” Launched this summer, our Empower Parenting with Resources (EmPwR) pilot program is following 800 Illinois families reported for suspected child maltreatment and receiving DCFS-funded services to address issues leading to a call to the hotline.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Advocacy takes various forms, including individual, organisational, and systemic levels. Client Advocacy 6. Client Assessment 2.

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Beyond Advocacy

APRIL 13, 2022

We cancelled Student Advocacy Day scheduled for the next day as the House and Senate would go into hiatus until the Covid-19 pandemic abated. Day, an associate professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work, is establishing herself as an authority in the field of child welfare. We are still waiting.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 22, 2022

Benefits would be capped at $4,000 per year per individual and would not count against receiving other benefits from the government. There were many heroines and heroes attending Monday evening’s dinner. Davis and Bacon were joined by fellow CCFY member Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA-37).

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

There are a wide range of job positions available in various settings, including healthcare, education, mental health, government agencies, private practice, counseling centers, research organisations and more. Advocacy and Social Justice Social work is inherently tied to social justice and advocacy.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

She was a prodigious child welfare scholar whose research focused on early childhood well-being in the United States and countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). I was proud to be in the company of someone with influence and respect at the highest level of New York state government.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The state capitol in Austin What the Tribune (and the Dallas Morning News ) can’t face is that after decades of seeing the system that calls itself “child welfare” do enormous harm to children, people across the political spectrum are coming together and finding common ground. But it still has a long way to go.

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Shelter, Inc

MARCH 12, 2025

These coalitions bring together law enforcement, nonprofits, schools, hospitals, and government agencies to share information, improve victim identification, and strengthen response efforts, states Santa Maria. Governments can pass stronger policies, increase funding for victim services, and train law enforcement.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. This one takes on what may be the most dangerous phrase in the family policing lexicon: “best interests of the child.” Much of this loss and pain has been directly fueled by government policy. Added Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When Honolulu Civil Beat reached out to NCCPR for comment on the findings of a study, done by the state’s own Court Improvement Project, of what really happens in child welfare court hearings, I said: “What this report tells us is that Hawaii doesn’t really have a court system for ‘child welfare’ cases at all.

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Beyond Advocacy

OCTOBER 6, 2024

These Fellows, part of a cohort of a dozen government and nonprofit sector dignitaries, are on an 18-day visit to the United States. They are particularly interested in expanding their understanding of human rights and social welfare programs and services in the U.S. Department of State. billion people in India to the 2.8

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Louis, founder and director of the Center for Social Development (CSD), who has spent decades convincing governments in the United States and abroad that investing in children at birth is sound policy. Michael Sherraden, the George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Louis, founder and director of the Center for Social Development (CSD), who has spent decades convincing governments in the United States and abroad that investing in children at birth is sound policy. Michael Sherraden, the George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This is the text of the second of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare I’m going to spend a lot of time criticizing things people said and did in the past. Call that whatever else you’d like, but please don’t call it hindsight. Why did it happen?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Dorothy Roberts’ definitive dissection of racism in family policing: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Some might say the novel depicts a dystopian future child welfare surveillance state. We start with three important books: ● First, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story especially when a good reporter adds a little context.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Remember all those scare stories about how, because COVID-19 prevented overwhelmingly white disproportionately middle-class “mandated reporters” from constantly having their “eyes” on children who are neither, their parents would unleash upon their own children a “pandemic of child abuse” ? million Black children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Through an upstream preventative lens that narrows the front door and addresses poverty through support and not victimization, I assert fewer children will need any form of formal care as their parents will have the necessary community support and resources to care for their children without child welfare intervention. …

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. And here’s part two , which explains why “permanency” is to child welfare as “creme" is to food: a fake substitute. ●

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

With a slim majority in the House, Republicans need only to win a handful of seats to flip the House which would stall the Biden-Harris Administration’s agenda and reinvigorate Trump’s influence over our government. Thus, the need for social workers and others to provide support to Congresswoman Lee.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Penelope, a child welfare worker in Texas, sees the compassion fatigue hitting her colleagues. But child welfare workers are invisible. Aisha, a social worker in the United Kingdom, has made the tough decision to leave her job in the child welfare courts. She feels guilt.

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