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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into foster care.” This mother worked but struggled financially. She took them in shifts leaving some children home alone.

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If there’s another foster-care panic in NYC, it’s on The New York Times

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

So the public was primed to scapegoat family preservation when Nixzmary Brown died in January, 2006 – leading to a foster-care panic , a sharp sudden increase in the number of children torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. The panic was welcomed by the Times.

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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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Inspiring Success Story: Robin was Once a Girl in Foster Care, Now She’s a Registered Nurse [VIDEO]

KVC

Nevertheless, I Persisted: Robin’s Inspiring Success Story When Robin was just three years old, her mother’s substance use led to her and her siblings being placed in foster care for their safety. Read how Robin took control of her destiny, choosing to defy the statistics about children in foster care rather than be defined by them.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending September 26, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong will be interviewed at the second of these two events sponsored by the City University of New York School of Law. Note that you need to register for each separately You can register for the first event here and the second event here.) ● The head of the family police agency in Missouri is bragging that they have reduced foster care.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 20, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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 news and commentary round-up, week ending October 4, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? 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.