NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2024

And the reason for that is not because there are too few foster parents. When a child is abused in foster care, the abuser is not only the individual who committed the abuse. The abuser also is the family police agency because that agency put the child in that dangerous foster home, group home or institution in the first place.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It provides astoundingly small amounts of cash or basic goods so children can stay home or return home because, guess what, they were taken, or are now trapped in foster care, because of poverty alone. It’s an excellent program – but why is it just a tiny add-on to a system built on family policing and foster care?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

So you’ve probably guessed: The only reason this falsely accused parent got such sympathetic treatment – in fact, the only reason Investigate West talked to her at all – is because she was a foster parent, and the accuser was one of her foster children. Good foster parents, the ones who really care about the kids, get that.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Considering that roughly 50,000 children were in New York City foster care every year a generation ago, this cumulative burden alone is severe. It certainly had a negative effect on the children.” Added Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

The study looks at every step of the process, from investigations to how often a caseworker claims a case is “substantiated” to entries into foster care to termination of children’s rights to their parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act. Yes, second highest.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. ● As is so often the case, the professor’s comments minimize the harm of one of the worst “adverse childhood experiences” a child can endure – being torn from everyone s/he knows and loves and thrown into foster care. I have a column about it in CalMatters. It has decimated their lives.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Remember the children who were torn from their parents and thrown into foster care because the parents committed the crime of Driving While Black? In the Virginia Mercury , Valerie L’Herrou, deputy director of the Center for Family Advocacy, urges support for legislation that would bolster the quality of family defense in that state.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? This solution, to both homelessness and foster care sounds almost ridiculously obvious. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. Maria Mossaides is a woman of enormous power and privilege. What can we conclude from this?

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. Now, more children will get the opportunity to live with relatives.

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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 17, 2024

59 new parents received one-on-one support through our Healthy Families program, 22 “forever families ” were established through our foster care program, and critical housing and support services were providedfor youth in crisis, youth experiencing homelessness and young adultsaging out of the foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Font and Putnam-Hornstein have been brought in by that other bastion of the child welfare establishment, Chapin Hall, to advise them on a study that amounts to a whitewash of abuse in foster care. As for taking away children, Putnam-Hornstein has said "it is possible we don’t place enough children in foster care or early enough.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

? Last week, I was asked to list the most important contributions to the field of family advocacy and family defense made by Prof. As Kathleen Creamer put it in this story from The Imprint “No one has done more than Marty to move this field towards justice — even when no one seemed to care about justice.” ? Martin Guggenheim.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And the head of a trade association for “children’s advocacy centers,” where many such exams are performed, says the real problem is agencies aren’t doing enough of them. ● So they used a blackmail placement – aka hidden foster care. “They’re using these kids, basically, as pieces of evidence, and you can’t do that.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 5, 2023

It also touches on the sham of “team decision-making,” the harm of forcing parents to pay part of the cost of children’s foster care (a payment that should properly be called “ransom”) and the evil of a practice known as “concurrent planning. ” Indeed, it can endanger the fetus to suddenly stop using such medication when pregnant.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In The Hill, Dr. Ruchi Fitzgerald, a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s Legislative Advocacy Committee, explains the enormous harm done by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to children of mothers with substance use disorder – by driving those mothers away from help. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

They said my child would be safer in foster care than with me," said the mother of Ja'Ceon Terry, "but see the outcome of what happened." And check out this detailed testimony from several New York City family defense and family advocacy organizations. ? This week the Missouri Independent did the same story – and got it right.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan School of Law explains, what children need is relational permanence. Children need to be able to stay connected to everyone who loves them, whether they can care for them or not. But as Prof.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 13, 2023

If enacted, the bill would expand state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. We will also hear from Duane Price, a young man with experience in foster care whose life was enhanced by getting a car.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In The Grio, Shereen White, director of advocacy and policy at Children’s Rights, and Prof. In Massachusetts, the Boston Globe reports, former foster youth who were harmed when they were torn from their homes protested at the State Capitol. Instead, she said, she was placed with a foster family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

No Black history in America or history of children’s advocacy can be complete without the name of Marian Wright Edelman. a child’s advocacy and research center. Marian Wright Edelman, Founder of the Children’s Defense Fund. Her impact on the welfare of all children has been profound.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

No Black history in America or history of children’s advocacy can be complete without the name of Marian Wright Edelman. a child’s advocacy and research center. Marian Wright Edelman, Founder of the Children’s Defense Fund. Her impact on the welfare of all children has been profound.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Colorado takes children from their parents at a rate 30% above the national average – and some counties have rates of child removal that are even worse, according to a report released today by a national child advocacy organization. When it comes to child welfare, Colorado trails.” Read the full report, executive summary, press release, Ms.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

And in Illinois, a family is suing after their children were thrown into foster care for more than a year, all because of a false allegation from a doctor who allegedly was retaliating because she felt offended and embarrassed by the father. ?

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CO4Kids

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Back to Blogs Community Blog Adams County Celebrates Kinship Care Month This Kinship Care Month Adams County is recognizing an outstanding kinship caregiver, caseworker and community partner for all they do to support youth in foster care and kinship caregivers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Instead, the story cites just one alleged “expert,” who, in the long, ugly tradition of “health terrorism” offers up the fill-in-the-blanks quote the reporter seemed to want: The numbers on fatalities in particular are concerning, because such cases are notoriously underreported, said Amy Harfeld, of the Children’s Advocacy Institute.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Hotlines wind up with more false reports and trivial cases; children are harassed and traumatized by needless child abuse investigations – often including stripsearches as caseworkers look for bruises - and some of those children are forced needlessly into foster care. But for the past three years it's been especially relevant.

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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. Cortez Carey, the recently hired Executive Director of the Foster Youth Caucus, was the evening’s spokesperson, a job he shared with Zahra Marin, NFYI’s National Policy and Organizing Director.

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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. Self-Care 13.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

● Some relatively good news in Tennessee: Tennessee Lookout reports that thanks to strong legal advocacy, public pressure, and some very good journalism, the children taken from parents whose “crime” was Driving While Black have been returned.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples. We are all part of the economy.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. Former Congresswoman Karen Bass, now Mayor Bass, was the catalyst for a transformational wave in foster care when she arrived in Congress in 2011 and immediately created the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 30, 2023

According to the story: In 2022, there were 12,473 anonymous calls to the state and about 1,000 of those calls resulted in a substantiated finding of abuse or neglect, said Kate Murphy, director of child protection policy with the advocacy group Texans Care for Children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

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.

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