Advocacy Foster Care Human Services 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2024
As I wrote at the time: Why did [the Oregon Department of Human Services] allow all this state-sanctioned child abuse for all this time? 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.
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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 22, 2025
They also revealed that the Oregon Department of Human Services knew about the abuse and did nothing. That investigation whacked the state into raising standards for foster homes. It wound up warehousing foster children in offices and jails. So whack a child advocacy group brought a lawsuit to prohibit the practice.
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.
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.
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.
Relias
MAY 21, 2025
By embracing these strategies, behavioral health professionals can build more inclusive, equitable systems of care ones that recognize and respond to the lived experiences of all clients. The path to behavioral health equity begins with intentional action and a commitment to ongoing learning, reflection, and advocacy.
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