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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 23, 2025
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. The West Virginia family police agency, which already runs emergency shelters warehousing 156 children, opposes adding another.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2024
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 child welfare system. “To But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A Some even are celebrated.
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Shelter, Inc
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare 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 child welfare system fair for all.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 16, 2023
It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits. Only in a system as morally bankrupt as “child welfare” 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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 7, 2023
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 12, 2023
● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.
Social Work Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
North Carolina social worker Jocelyn Williams, MSW, learned about the importance of self-care when she took a high-pressure position at the Department of Social Services. That experience prompted her to write a book to help other social workers. A child welfare social worker meets with her clients.
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