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But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in fostercare – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. Presumably this also would rule out a large proportion of those providing kinship fostercare, since they tend to be grandparents. For starters, there’s another caretaker in the home.
ENTRIES INTO FOSTERCARE PER THOUSAND IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN, 2022 This is what we mean by "Child Rremoval Capital of America Of all the options for placing children torn from their homes, among the very worst are so-called shelters. First came the bill that would send caseloads skyrocketing.
The biggest problem with the so-called “childwelfare” system is that it has nothing to do with the welfare of children. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) replaced welfare as we knew it. So she wasn’t home when a babysitter allegedly sexually abused her child. it has to be held for the children!”
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. That’s why you’re in fostercare.” So how did Barth respond?
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.
Fostering is just one of many ways to help children in crisis, so here are seven other ways you can help a child in fostercare: 1. Children in fostercare have likely experienced abuse, neglect, or some type of family trauma. Provide Respite Care . Mentor a Teen . 27% less likely to start drinking.
The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the childwelfare 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 fostercare children. of children’s national population.
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! One is 16, the other 13.
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.
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.
The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in fostercare. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.
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.” ? California becomes the latest state to curb the practice of making parents pay ransom to get their kids back from fostercare.
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.
And here’s part two , which explains why “creme" is to food what “permanency” is to childwelfare: a fake substitute. ● A member of the Seattle Times editorial board has made a discovery : Turns out, one of the best ways to shrink fostercare rolls is neither parent therapy nor drug treatment, but something much more concrete: housing.
According to a story about the study in The Hill : States with more generous SNAP policies — and therefore more program participants — had fewer children involved in Child Protective Services (CPS) and fostercare, according to the 14-year nationwide survey, published in JAMA Network Open on Wednesday. The Wausau (Wis.)
● Want to see how easy it is for the fostercare system to become the ultimate middle-class entitlement – step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own? All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled.
The latest McLawsuit reinforces ugly stereotypes about who loses children to fostercare. ● s childhood had the hallmarks of trauma and instability that DCFS is accustomed to seeing in children entering fostercare, including early childhood abuse and neglect, family violence, frequent moves, and unstable placements.
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.
. ● 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.
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.
. ● 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. ● There is no innovation, no best practice and no good turn of phrase that the family policing establishment won’t try to co-opt for its own ends.
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.
School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, fostercare, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.
ChildWelfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or fostercare systems. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN What is the main role of a social worker?
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.
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 fostercare before moving on to supervisory and administrative roles.
Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in fostercare are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias.
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.”
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.” One of those ways is using visits between children in fostercare and their parents as a weapon.
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.
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. Record numbers of children are trapped in fostercare in Maine. ● WABE Public Radio in Atlanta has published and broadcast a stunning story.
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.
. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from fostercare. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled. Now the family is suing. ●
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 fostercare.
“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.
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.
A case planner living with regrets that he failed to avoid a family separation through fostercare. These rare, firsthand stories from the frontlines of the childwelfare system are not often shared with the public. The child is often seen as the failure, not the treatment facility.
Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. 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.
● 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. ●
But we have to have our eyes open to the potential of this model.” -- Rhema Vaithianathan, co-designer of childwelfare “predictive analytics” algorithms, discussing the idea of assessing children’s risk of abuse – while they’re still in the womb. Department of Justice is investigating whether AFST is biased against the disabled.
Time is running out to submit comments to the Federal Register regarding Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments that representative payees receive for children and youth in fostercare. The money is used to reimburse states for the cost of fostercare, a practice restricted by federal law.
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. Fatalities where child abuse or neglect was confirmed have continued to decline through the recent period of fewer fostercare removals.
Also in New York City, The 74 reports, Across the nation’s largest [school] district, parents of students with disabilities who speak up on behalf of their children say they are being charged with allegations of child abuse or neglect — a tactic advocates say schools use to intimidate parents and coerce them into dropping their concerns.
. ● In words and pictures, The Imprint documents an oral history project that’s also an oral healing project for survivors of the “boarding schools’ that were part of the systematic attempt by “childwelfare” systems to effectively eradicate Native America. ● The Imprint and The Hill have stories. OK, I admit it.
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