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Our annual call to end child welfare’s public celebration of family executions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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With Your Support, We Accomplished So Much in Child Welfare Last Year!

Shelter, Inc

With recognition from grantors on our work, we were thrilled to receive the first community impact grant from Endeavor Health and a $273,000 behavioral health initiative grant from Cook County to expand our clinical department. Involvement To continue advocacy efforts and community involvement, Shelter’s Executive Director, Carina H.

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Our annual reminder: End "child welfare"’s public celebration of family executions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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Lessons from two child welfare court decisions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. Writing in The Imprint , Prof. Appellate courts would intervene. As the lawyers might say, the circuits are split.

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Our annual call to end child welfare’s public celebration of family executions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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End child welfare’s public celebration of family executions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in child welfare. Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty. I probably don’t even need to mention that the man they hanged was Black.)

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NASW Press Reads for Policy, Advocacy, and Impact!

Social Work Blog

Written from a modern, pluralist perspective, the text shows why economists and policymakers disagree about regulations, social welfare programs, government spending, and tax policies designed to address these economic problems.