Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

At Shelter Youth & Family Services, we honor Black History Month by shining a light on three pioneers who tirelessly fought for justice and equality in America, including in the child welfare system. This includes training foster parents and social workers in cultural competency and actively recruiting more Black foster families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides.

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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. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

She had to fight her way through a long, cumbersome appeals process before she could get overturned a determination by a caseworker for the Washington State family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) that the allegation against her was “founded.” arm of the Foster Parents Association of Washington State.

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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. Appellate courts would intervene. The system would move quickly to protect the powerful.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

Christina has been a licensed foster parent in the state of Washington for six years and has adopted one child from the foster care system. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and daughter.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

(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. Nora McCarthy discusses this in her column for The Imprint.

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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? And here’s part two , which explains why “creme" is to food what “permanency” is to child welfare: a fake substitute. ●

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KVC

MAY 19, 2023

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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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. For example, in the American population of children, African Americans make up 15%, but they represent 33% of foster care children. of children’s national population.

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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.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

.” -- Ann Haines Holy Eagle on what the Minnesota family police stole from her By now we’re all familiar with one odious practice of most family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies): They steal the Social Security benefits to which some foster children are entitled and keep the money for themselves.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”)

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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

JANUARY 22, 2025

For nearly a decade, Oregons approach to child welfare has amounted to a pathetic game of whack-a-mole. 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.

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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

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? But things have taken a strange turn in Maine.

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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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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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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). The event is being presented in conjunction with the Congressional Social Work Caucus and the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth.

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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. Her impact on the welfare of all children has been profound. a child’s advocacy and research center. From the beginning until the present day, the CDF has made significant contributions to children’s welfare.

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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. Her impact on the welfare of all children has been profound. a child’s advocacy and research center. From the beginning until the present day, the CDF has made significant contributions to children’s welfare.

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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

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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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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Child Advocates

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Hear an authentic, piercing, and comprehensive conversation about our nation’s child welfare system and its impact on children, especially children. The post A Former Foster Child, Now Child Rights Lawyer, Shares Piercing Insight on the Child Welfare System | Podcast Episode 21 appeared first on Child Advocates.

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Brightpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

1] ” This unapologetic advocacy is sparking mainstream conversations throughout the U.S. That family—especially if they are black or brown–might find themselves a couple of steps away from a foster care intervention when what they really needed were options that money can literally buy, like clothing, food, and child care. [5].

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 22, 2022

When I received the invite to attend Monday evening’s Capitol Hill dinner celebrating progress on legislation supporting the needs of foster care youth, I was a bit surprised by the nature of the bill. There were many heroines and heroes attending Monday evening’s dinner. Davis and Bacon were joined by fellow CCFY member Rep.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

This bill would reauthorize Title IV-B of the Social Security Act to strengthen child welfare services and expand the availability of prevention services. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, which held a hearing on the legislation on July 24, following a year-long review of child welfare programs.

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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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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. Currently, about 5.4

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

In fact, given that the child welfare establishment has no shame, expect the usual op-eds to have token boilerplate statements about racial justice – even as they propose making a profoundly racist family policing system even bigger and more powerful. But for the past four years it's been especially relevant.

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Beyond Advocacy

DECEMBER 22, 2024

If you are planning to arrive in Seattle early for the Society for Social Work and Research annual conference, we invite you to join CRISP, Wellbeing and Equity Innovations (WEI), and the University of Washington School of Social Work for an Innovation Day workshop on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. in the 3rd […]

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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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