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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

But today’s post focuses on one particularly jarring vignette–the story of a mother, her seven children, and a van–and what it means about how child welfare policy is made and discussed today. David Reed, the Deputy Director of Child Welfare Services in Indiana, introduced the story of this family in his testimony.

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“Child welfare” and racism: Children’s Rights steps up

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

For example, in Minnesota Black children are twice as likely to be thrown into foster care as white children. Minnesota’s record of racial disparity in investigations and foster care is worse than the national average, and the disparities in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties are worse than the state average.

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Oregon’s “child welfare” agency wants to narrow definitions of abuse – but only when THEY are the abuser!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In Oregon, "child welfare" has become a pathetic game of whack-a-mole. They also revealed that Oregons family police agency (a more accurate term than child welfare agency) knew about the abuse for at least 18 months and did nothing. And the reason for that is not because there are too few foster parents.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” Where oh where to begin. Oh, don’t get me wrong.

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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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Massachusetts pilots the most promising reform in child welfare. Guess who’s trying to undercut it.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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Power, privilege, and passing judgment in “child welfare”: The Massachusetts “Child Advocate” gets it wrong again

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.