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The fundamental fact of American “childwelfare” is that if you’re not white and affluent the system will discriminate against you. That’s not unique to “childwelfare” of course, but the field seems to be “in denial” about it to an extraordinary degree.) The phrase, of course, is “ best interests of the child.”
Attention childwelfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world. No one should be required to “be nice to people who do despicable things.”
But I should explain at the top why this commentary is on a blog about the “childwelfare” system. AFA’s members include some of the most strident supporters of tearing apart more families and some of those deepest in denial about racism in childwelfare. She also condemned the Indian ChildWelfare Act.
According to West Virginia Watch , Jonathan Pinson, a member of the state House of Delegates who also is a foster parent, declared: I cannot fathom losing my child to a hotel room. Again from the story: These kids are not the kids that foster parents are willing to take in, Bragg said. Thats the kids [who] are ending up in a hotel.
It turns out, Paris Hilton knows more about "residential treatment facilities" than at least one self-proclaimed "childwelfare scholar." By pretending that this industry has nothing to do with his sacred, beloved “childwelfare” system. So how did Barth respond? It’s not a matter of ill-motivation. But Paris Hilton does.
Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. But for America’s giant childwelfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias. That same algorithm now is reportedly under investigation by the U.S.
Is Pittsburgh’s “childwelfare” predictive analytics algorithm running amok? The Allegheny Family Screening Tool slaps an invisible scarlet number "risk score" on every child whose parents or other caretakers have been accused of neglect. The ABA Journal article quotes two experts on disability law and family policing, Prof.
The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the childwelfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. Yet, study after study show child abuse and neglect is lower in Black families than white families. When we do that, we will have made huge strides toward making the childwelfare system fair for all.
“I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the childwelfare system. “To But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A Some even are celebrated.
But, particularly when it comes to substance use, some of these courts exist where so much of the childwelfare establishment does, at the intersection of ignorance and arrogance. DOJ has issued a letter ruling that when judges ban such treatment they are violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
Twenty years ago, Penn Law Professor (and NCCPR Board Member) Dorothy Roberts changed the landscape of “childwelfare” when she literally wrote the book on racial bias in family policing: Shattered Bonds: The Color of ChildWelfare. The extent to which even the mainstream is beginning to understand what Prof.
From the story: The Hackneys, who have developmental disabilities, are struggling to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital when she refused to eat could be seen as so neglectful that she’d need to be taken from her home. Justice Department is asking the same question. … The New York Times also has a story. ● Here’s the audio.
In New York, that state’s Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights is going to launch an investigation into “possible violations of Black families’ civil and constitutional rights by the New York childwelfare system.” ? One might think the federal Americans with Disabilities Act would help.
KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest childwelfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of childwelfare and mental health nationally.
As the research summarized in NCCPR’s new Issue Paper makes clear, this has backfired – creating a massive childwelfare surveillance state that scares families away from seeking help, overloads the system with false reports, trivial cases and poverty cases, and leaves workers even less time to find the few children in real danger.
What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “childwelfare” 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.” That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He He continues as a professor.) I have a blog post about it.
It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits. Only in a system as morally bankrupt as “childwelfare” could it be considered acceptable to make children pay an allowance to their substitute parents. It might be legal – though even that is a gray area.
That’s why this post to the NCCPR ChildWelfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case. ● WABE Public Radio in Atlanta has published and broadcast a stunning story. Department of Justice announced Monday in a lawsuit seeking to force the state to make changes.
The biggest problem with the so-called “childwelfare” system is that it has nothing to do with the welfare of children. By ruthlessly cutting people from welfare roles, states built up surpluses that are supposed to be used to help those same impoverished families become self-sufficient.
Of course, the agency can go right on harassing families where the marijuana use is recreational or where there is other drug use that poses no threat to the child. I have a two-part Blog post about the failure of the McLawsuits brought by Children’s Rights and A Better Childhood.
They were afraid of social services,” a parent with disabilities (one of the groups most vulnerable to family policing), told The Colorado Sun. The comment is part of an in-depth examination of mandatory child abuse reporting laws in Colorado – which are pretty much like the laws everywhere else.
But i nstead of getting more money directly into the hands of poor families, they’re going to give up to $10 million over five years to some consultant or other – to teach mandatory reporters and child abuse hotline operators how to stop confusing poverty with neglect! Family policing is one of America’s ugliest exports.
This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change ChildWelfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? Well, it helps if your definition of abuse includes anything that might affect a child’s well-being.
All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled. And if you want to know more about the lawyer who won, check out Eli Hager’s story for ProPublica and The New Yorker. Even Scrooge didn’t go this far.
And here’s part two , which explains why “creme" is to food what “permanency” is to childwelfare: a fake substitute. ● She thinks even aging out can be better not only than returning to their own homes (an outcome to which she’s long been hostile) but even to guardianship with extended family.
Even when a child isn’t taken, the trauma inflicted by the childwelfare surveillance state is huge. “In Although it doesn’t get as much attention as the other populations targeted by family policing, children of disabled parents also are more likely to be forced into foster care. They tried to shut out opponents like J.
(The agencies call it “child support” but listen closely at 36:23 in, and you’ll hear Imprint editor John Kelly use the R-word :-)) The interview starts at 16:40 in. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled. Commission on Civil Rights says that state needs more safeguards and transparency for such algorithms.
. ● Also in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s highly-touted predictive analytics family policing algorithm reportedly is under investigation for bias against the disabled. Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan.
. ● 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. ● One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. In some parts of the country, they’ve done it with Reunification Month celebrations.
Q: Why did you decide to become a social worker and work in the childwelfare arena? A childwelfare social worker meets with her clients. Williams: As a child, outside of my mother and aunt, I did not have a lot of guidance and stability from adults to teach me how to carry myself in a mature and respectful manner.
● When the miracle cure turns out to be snake oil: There’s still another problem with Pittsburgh's predictive analytics “childwelfare” algorithm. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into whether the algorithm discriminates against families in which a parent is disabled. ● I have some additional context here. ●
That’s because it’s meant specifically for those who have read a study concocted by a who’s who of family policing’s “caucus of denial” – those who claim that, somehow, childwelfare is magically immune from the racism that infects every other aspect of American life. Therefore “childwelfare” isn’t racist.
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He has been the editor for the journal ChildWelfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. Diego Bernal, MSW ‘01 Representative, Texas House of Representatives. Bernal was born in South Texas and raised in San Antonio.
As with her social care ministerial predecessors, Tolhurst’s brief will also encompass other issues concerning disadvantaged and vulnerable children, including special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and early help.
And then, much later: “[T]he harms of Defendants’ failures disproportionately fall on already marginalized youth—youth of color, queer youth, pregnant and parenting youth, and youth with disabilities—as these youth are vastly over-represented in the Los Angeles County foster care population.”
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Jacque started her career working with developmentally disabled children, youth and adults. Throughout her years with the department, she went on to work with youth in residential facilities, families involved in childwelfare, foster parents, and children and youth in foster care before moving on to supervisory and administrative roles.
They are seeking to learn from people with lived experience in foster care, both current and former foster care youth, parents, adoptive parents, and parents whose children were referred to childwelfare. Agencies argue that children and youth are not mature enough to make responsible decisions about spending money.
OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than childwelfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. In this video , one of Britains foremost childwelfare scholars, Prof. Its not just the United States.
The Family Justice Law Center “will use affirmative litigation to seek justice for families mistreated by the childwelfare system. The Biden Administration is proposing some significant changes – for the better – in childwelfare finance. OK, now that you’re back – in other news: ? I have a blog post about it. ?
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