Advocacy Foster Care Human Services 
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 5, 2024
It’s not a full-scale class-action lawsuit, but it’s a good start: Children’s Rights is representing the Minneapolis NAACP in a formal complaint to the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights. For example, in Minnesota Black children are twice as likely to be thrown into foster care as white children.
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Social Work Blog
APRIL 5, 2023
In 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , Gerald O’Brien provides a resource to overcome these challenges, because policy familiarity contributes to social workers’ fundamental understanding of the individuals, communities, institutions, and governments they serve.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 25, 2024
And letting children remember their birth parents and acknowledging the love between them may make things uncomfortable for the people for whom the system is designed: Overwhelmingly middle-class disproportionately white foster and adoptive parents. Sometimes it means cutting off siblings. But as Prof.
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution.
Beyond Advocacy
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
Time is running out to submit comments to the Federal Register regarding Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments that representative payees receive for children and youth in foster care. The money is used to reimburse states for the cost of foster care, a practice restricted by federal law.
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