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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Their “study” methodology guarantees most abuse will be overlooked, and their advisory panel consists of extremists who want to expand the child welfare surveillance state while denying any problem with racial bias. Worst of all, they’re trying to persuade an “advisory board” of foster youth into believing this is legitimate.

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Back to School Tips for Students in Out-of-Home Care

CO4Kids

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Back to School Tips for Students in Out-of-Home Care School’s back in session and the transition can be tough for students in out-of-home care, caregivers and others that support them. Find your student’s school district’s Child Welfare Education Liaison (CWEL). Communicate.

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Child welfare in Arizona: Don’t believe the spin from the agency where workers called themselves “professional kidnappers.”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Nearly 15% of Native American children, nearly 15% of Hispanic children and nearly 20% of Black children will be placed in foster care, according to the study. Since that time, we have made vast systemic improvements, including reducing entries into care and reducing our out-of-home care population by 24%.”

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare 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 child welfare and mental health nationally.

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Keeping Families Strong

Shelter, Inc

May is National Foster Care Month, and this year’s theme is Relative and Kin Connections: Keeping Families Strong. Did you know Shelter’s Foster Care Program works to reunite families whenever it’s in the youth’s best interest and that our foster families may be traditional or home-of-relative?

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

KVC

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes.

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Colorado task force’s solution to stop children from running from residential treatment: Fence ‘em in & lock ‘em up!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado child welfare in September 2023, we included a section called Tapeworm in the System. Its about Colorados love affair with the worst form of care for children group homes and institutions. They absolutely do belong in foster care or, far better, in their own homes.