NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

That’s because, if you read this Blog regularly, you probably work in or study “child welfare.” But the Times story says, in effect: Hey, those laws fixed the problem for the poor kids and the foster kids, so we can just focus on the affluent white kids – because those kids are “mainstream.” Not even surprised?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 7, 2023

Robert Latham, Associate Director of the Children & Youth Law Clinic at the University of Miami linked to it on his excellent blog. 28 – The percentage of Hispanic children in Maine who will be forced into foster care at some point during their childhoods. I first learned about the study when Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sarah Katz, director of the Family Law Litigation Clinic at Temple University, in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “A federal law has been destroying families for 25 years. A parent may be sentenced to a relatively short time in prison – but, because of ASFA, for their children it can lead to a life sentence of separation from parents they love.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

This means KVC is outperforming its peers in child welfare and mental health, its peers in healthcare more broadly, and even most for-profit companies across all sectors. Join a values-driven team that is passionate about transforming people’s experience of child welfare and mental health services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Because that’s what the adverse childhood experience of a child abuse investigation is really all about (except, of course, the toxic environment would be foster care, not a carcinogen factory).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Somehow, however, this most essential and defining aspect of being human has been overshadowed or cast aside in the industry known as child welfare. This has resulted in a fixation on clinical services and proprietary models rather than proactive family support. Their main interest is to remain in business.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

is a child welfare agency that works to end the cycle of child abuse and neglect through comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Programs include emergency housing, transitional living, foster care, home visiting and clinical support services. Shelter, Inc.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Commission on Civil Rights is hosting a series of public briefings to examine the extent to which racial disproportionalities and disparities exist in the New York child welfare system and its impact specifically on Black children and families. In Michigan, state judges are all upset over a “placement crisis” in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The lawsuit was filed by the Family Justice Law Center, the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private firms. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

MartinGuggenheim, who founded the nation’s first family defense clinic at New York University School of Law (and who also is president of NCCPR). ? This year the American Bar Association annual conference of family defense attorneys was, of course, an online event.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges. 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.

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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 17, 2024

With recognition from grantors on our work, we were thrilled to receive the first community impact grant from Endeavor Health and a $273,000 behavioral health initiative grant from Cook County to expand our clinical department. The post With Your Support, We Accomplished So Much in Child Welfare Last Year!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. As one such commenter put it: As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I wish news organizations such as Wapo would be more clear with using terms such as “social worker.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Child welfare’s foremost data nerd has weighed in on the mess in central Florida child welfare caused by – well caused by a lot of things, including the dreadful performance of Eckerd Connects. Florida calls it a “Community-Based Care” (CBC) system of “child welfare,” but both those terms are euphemisms.)

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. This one takes on what may be the most dangerous phrase in the family policing lexicon: “best interests of the child.” One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism. But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care. So I reprinted that part, in full.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in child welfare. Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty. In fact, we don’t know how often adoption does that.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But, as so often happens, because family policing agencies prey on the poor, it also became an account of how the so-called child welfare system makes everything worse. Now it’s a book: Invisible Child, published today by Random House. It is a must-read for anyone concerned about race, poverty, and child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

am proud to serve on a special committee of the Philadelphia City Council examining the child welfare system in that city. One of our recommendations is to abolish mandatory child abuse reporting – something that would be in line with decades of research showing that mandatory reporting backfires.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The expanded KVC Missouri team will serve thousands of families each year, offering preventative family strengthening services, foster care , children’s mental health treatment, educational academies, and other services from 20 locations including Kansas City, St. We can truly transform the face of foster care and mental health.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

There’s lots to link to, but the two journalists who know the Indian Child Welfare Act – and the case that led up to last week’s decision – best are probably Rebecca Nagle, who produced the This Land podcast about the case – she discusses the decision here – and Nancy Marie Spears of The Imprint , who wrote about the decision here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Harvard Law School now has a family defense clinic ! And finally: two items about family defense: ● The Imprint interviews Tehra Coles , the new director of New York’s Center for Family Representation. ● And, what do you know?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Kendra Hurley was one of the first journalists to question the “master narrative” about child abuse and COVID-19: The claim that, in the absence of ever-vigilant, mostly white middle-class “mandated reporters,” overwhelmingly poor disproportionately nonwhite parents would unleash a “pandemic of child abuse” upon their children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Instead of making the dreadful Texas "child welfare" system better, "Children's Rights" and "A Better Childhood" set off what amounts to a giant game of whack-a-mole. The one thing the McLawsuits do well is offer thorough, vivid descriptions of how awful “child welfare” systems typically are. Not that this was a surprise.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act, that challenge came from Texas. Native Americans make up 9% of the state child population but 35% of children in foster care. When the U.S. That law applies only to Native American children, but in Montana, thats a lot of children.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 7, 2025

a leading child welfare agency dedicated to providing safety, stability, and support to children and families in crisis, is pleased to announce the addition of two remarkable community leaders to its Board of Directors: Rian Spencer and Arlen S. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Shelter, Inc. Shelter, Inc. www.shelter-inc.org. # # #

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Indiana State Capitol - Photo by Warren LeMay If you are a Black child in Indiana, odds are four in five the family police WILL investigate you and your family. A shockingly high proportion of those investigations lead to foster care. She was taken from her parents only to die in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

The problem is compounded by the foster-care panic that has engulfed the state. The panic has been fueled in part by local advocates and reporters misreading an annual federal report on child abuse. Last year, they poured gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic. It applies to every other state as well).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The cruelty in question: Child welfares attempt to eradicate Native America. New York University School of Law profiles the role of NYUs pioneering Family Defense Clinic in a big recent victory: an appellate court decision barring the citys family police agency from harassing domestic violence survivors and their children.

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