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NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending October 22, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Dr. Sharon McDaniel, a pioneer in doing kinship foster care the right way, speaks out about the enormous harm of doing it the wrong way – through the subterfuge known as “hidden foster care.” LAist reports on another new study, this one from UCLA’s Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families. . No, it’s not Project 2025.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. Jane Spinak , author of The End of Family Court. -- Based on her extensive research Prof. The Imprint talks to Prof.