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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.” It’s depressing to imagine what went into this.

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A Helpful Guide to KVC’s Mental Health and Child Welfare Services in Kansas and Missouri

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If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. KVC Kansas.

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Yes Minnesota DOES have the money to implement the African-American Family Preservation Act

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Just as Minnesota takes away children at a rate nearly double the national average , Minnesota spends on child welfare at a rate even more than double the national average. In its own depressing way, this makes sense: The great paradox of “child welfare” is that the worse the option for children the more it costs.

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Is this guy the most helpless “child welfare” leader in America? His own comments suggest the answer is yes.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

A mom identified as Ruth said she went through five years of “malicious calls,” leaving her anxious and depressed. “My Her 3-year-old daughter “was so nervous being interrogated by strangers so many times that she started behaving irregularly.” My daughter wet the bed for three years straight,” she stated.

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

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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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Proposed New York City Law shows how mandatory child abuse reporting makes everything worse

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

I have written before about how mandatory child abuse reporting laws backfire. They overload child welfare systems – or as they should be called, “family policing systems” -- with false reports and cases in which poverty is confused with neglect , stealing time from finding the few children in real danger.

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#CASAsoWhite: Our annual Halloween reminder to CASA: No, it’s not a good idea to raise money by holding a talent show with a blackface act. (And yes, one CASA chapter actually did that.)

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Most people, but apparently not one chapter of that most sacred cow in child welfare Court-Appointed Special Advocates. It’s also something that anyone involved with that most sacred cow of child welfare – Court-Appointed Special Advocates -- needs to know. That, of course, raises problems of inherent bias.