NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

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.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2022

The former Times reporter and still their go-to guy for child welfare stories continues to soft-peddle racial bias. That contributes to foster-care panics , sharp, sudden increases in children needlessly torn from their homes. Questions were screened in advance. As usual it's because of Garrett Therolf.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This is especially true for children who have faced extreme circumstances such as abuse, neglect, or loss, often as part of child welfare systems. Shelter’s professional staff provides free trauma-informed clinical care to children who have experienced trauma so they can heal, build trust, and create a path forward.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Guest Anjana Samant of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project says that “I definitely see work in the child welfare system as a core, just basic ACLU bread-and-butter of civil liberties fight.” ● Samant also discusses the enormous harm of predictive analytics algorithms in child welfare. And ICYMI, here’s the trailer:

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

The study looks at every step of the process, from investigations to how often a caseworker claims a case is “substantiated” to entries into foster care to termination of children’s rights to their parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This morning, I gave a presentation with the above title At the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Here is the text of that presentation Have you heard? CAPTA creates the modern framework for the current child welfare surveillance state. Nah, just kidding.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Haaland, the case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act is scheduled to begin TODAY (Nov. Another post discusses two stories about “shortages” in Massachusetts “child welfare.” A common misunderstanding is that the leading reason kids are taken into the foster care system is because of physical or sexual abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. You can read about those data here and here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

For them, intervention by the family police is, literally, the norm. In addition, Emily takes a “holistic approach” to her family’s health that includes “declining certain medical interventions during her pregnancies and declining to vaccinate her sons.” How might a family like this handle medical care during a future pregnancy?

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In the meantime, ministers have allocated over £250m for 2025-26 to “test innovative measures to support children and reduce costs for local authorities”, including allowances for kinship carers and the rollout of regional hubs to support foster care recruitment. “Further delays will see [costs] escalate.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

The end of 2021 brought more outstanding reporting on various dark corners of the “child welfare” system. ? If you tear a child from a parent’s arms, then demand money to give the child back, what’s the right word for the payment? How about TANF as a child welfare slush fund.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Here’s what you’ll find in it: PREFATORY MATERIAL Editor’s Note—Growth in Unprecedented Times, Nicolás Quaid Galván Foreword—Strengthened Bonds: Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well Being, Nancy D. Last month, two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

And here’s part two , which explains why “creme" is to food what “permanency” is to child welfare: a fake substitute. ● A member of the Seattle Times editorial board has made a discovery : Turns out, one of the best ways to shrink foster care rolls is neither parent therapy nor drug treatment, but something much more concrete: housing.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The latest McLawsuit reinforces ugly stereotypes about who loses children to foster care. ● s childhood had the hallmarks of trauma and instability that DCFS is accustomed to seeing in children entering foster care, including early childhood abuse and neglect, family violence, frequent moves, and unstable placements.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This article will explore common questions, facts, and figures about this tragic national epidemic, including how education empowers individuals and ways to get involved locally and nationally in the fight against child abuse. What Is Child Abuse Prevention?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

● ProPublica and NBC News wrapped up their extraordinary series on the harm of family policing with an urgent reminder that “In Child Welfare Cases, Most of Your Constitutional Rights Don’t Apply.” At the end of 2021, NPR exposed the hideous practice of forcing parents to pay ransom to get their kids back from foster care. (No,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 4, 2023

And the listing increases the odds that, even if the children weren’t thrown into foster care this time, it will happen if the family is reported again – because the listing raises suspicions, whether it’s the guess of a human caseworker or a computer algorithm raising a family’s “risk score.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2023

● New England Public Media has an excellent story about how Massachusetts is piloting the most promising innovation in the country for safely reducing needless foster care. If you know Massachusetts “child welfare” you know the answer.) Lopez’s oldest child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It took the intervention of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to undo some of the damage done to the children at the center of this case. How it took the intervention of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to stop things from getting even worse. ? How, after a judge returned the children, the family police brought new charges.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent. As the story explains: Rodriguez’s passion for reforming DCF stems from her own experience in foster care.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

This bill would reauthorize Title IV-B of the Social Security Act to strengthen child welfare services and expand the availability of prevention services. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, which held a hearing on the legislation on July 24, following a year-long review of child welfare programs.

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Brightpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

That family—especially if they are black or brown–might find themselves a couple of steps away from a foster care intervention when what they really needed were options that money can literally buy, like clothing, food, and child care. [5].

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Matarese is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for LGBTQ+ Children and Youth in Foster Care, and the National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification funded by the Children’s Bureau.

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

For some children, foster care, residential care or care by someone within their extended network is considered necessary for their immediate or longer-term safety. An alternative to foster care Fostering Families is an alternative to foster care and draws upon ideas presented by Crittenden and Farnfield (2007).

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Informed Consent: Social workers get informed consent from clients before initiating any interventions or services.

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Brightpoint

MAY 1, 2023

As an organization familiar with how poverty can be compounded into child neglect, Children’s Home & Aid is committed to advancing child, family, and community well-being solutions like addressing diaper need to prevent a more costly and disruptive child welfare intervention.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2023

When marijuana was legalized in Colorado family police intervention in families where it was used actually increased. Yet it’s the Roxbury mom who doesn’t dare use pot – or at least makes sure to hide that use -- because she knows that paints a target on her back and she could lose her children.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 9, 2023

The research presented by SSW covers a wide range of areas and our expertise, including child welfare, foster care, sexual and gender minority youth mental health, and substance use, among others. Presentation: Factors Associated with Child Welfare Diversion for Substance-Exposed Infants.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit. Child abuse investigations are run by another division of the same agency that oversees Hello Baby. Emphasis added.]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. To move away from the ineffective intervention of mandatory reporting, policymakers must decriminalize absenteeism. The AFT has an overview here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare 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 foster care removals.

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