NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. It’s one reason New York City’s rate of removal is well under one-third the rate of Massachusetts, even when rates of child poverty are factored in.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. Lawyers would scream.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 17, 2022

In fact, in an interview with Vice News about the same case, Davis said: “I was very grateful that they had attorneys.” A dirty home means you’re neglecting your children – so they wind up in foster care. The workers interviewed seem anxious to do the same; the story is filled with their proclamations of moral superiority.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. This clause is included in a law commonly known as “Elisa’s Law,” after Elisa Izquierdo, a child known-to-the-system who died in 1995. Here’s how ProPublica describes one encounter: It was 5:30 a.m.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That is false and it's actually dangerous for children because it fosters and perpetuates a culture of ACS using these invasive and distressing and degrading tactics. You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But, particularly when it comes to substance use, some of these courts exist where so much of the child welfare establishment does, at the intersection of ignorance and arrogance. The Imprint’s weekly podcast features a fascinating interview with Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Twenty years ago, Penn Law Professor (and NCCPR Board Member) Dorothy Roberts changed the landscape of “child welfare” when she literally wrote the book on racial bias in family policing: Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. Roberts’ interview with Boston Review. Check out Prof.

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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 Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. ● 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 foster care. In Dayton, Ohio, a misdiagnosis of child abuse forced infants into foster care for nearly a year.

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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. ? And always: New York City has one of the least awful family policing systems in America.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It provides astoundingly small amounts of cash or basic goods so children can stay home or return home because, guess what, they were taken, or are now trapped in foster care, because of poverty alone. It’s an excellent program – but why is it just a tiny add-on to a system built on family policing and foster care?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fong will be interviewed at the second of these two events sponsored by the City University of New York School of Law. Note that you need to register for each separately You can register for the first event here and the second event here.) ● The head of the family police agency in Missouri is bragging that they have reduced foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? But things have taken a strange turn in Maine.

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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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University of Connecticut

MARCH 12, 2024

Mathematica and Innovations Institute have partnered to advance policymakers’ understanding of how Medicaid and child welfare agencies ensure youth in the child welfare system receive access to health care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Would she feel that way were she fighting to get her child out of foster care? in a week, and one required a child to get stitches? By the way, Councilmember Oh’s child was interviewed separately and told the social worker what happened – just like Dr. Goldman’s children. Two trips to the E.R.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

Her experience in foster care was far worse. ? These are precisely the kinds of young people the Massachusetts “Child Advocate” is trying to silence. In an interview with Salon about her new book, Torn Apart , Prof. WBTV in Charlotte continues to expose the hidden foster care scandal in North Carolina.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

In New York, it’s illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into foster care just because they “witnessed domestic violence” – typically a husband or boyfriend beating the child’s mother. New York’s family police agency is still harassing survivors of domestic violence and their children. said in court papers.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Florida’s family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, has, in effect, confirmed the findings of a USA Today Network investigation that found DCF ignored widespread abuse in foster care. And once again, USA Today reporters trace the origins of the problem to the foster-care panic in Florida starting in 2014. (As

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. ● As is so often the case, the professor’s comments minimize the harm of one of the worst “adverse childhood experiences” a child can endure – being torn from everyone s/he knows and loves and thrown into foster care. You know, the report the agency tried to suppress?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

● Think you know all about the cases at the heart of the current challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act? The federal government released its annual Child Maltreatment report. The federal government released its annual Child Maltreatment report. The Imprint has a summary.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● 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. ● And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

am proud to serve on a special committee of the Philadelphia City Council examining the child welfare system in that city. One of our recommendations is to abolish mandatory child abuse reporting – something that would be in line with decades of research showing that mandatory reporting backfires.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

ET, Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child, discusses her outstanding book and the intersection of law, journalism and social justice at this event sponsored by the New York University School of Law Forum. ? Rise interviews Rutgers Prof. Attending it will be just what you need to tune up your b.s.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

. ● There’s a new study out from Rutgers University concerning children placed in foster care for 30 days or less – placements that always raise the question: If you could return the child in 30 days why did you take the child at all? What’s that got to do with child welfare?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

? Marketplace Tech interviews Sally Ho and Garance Burke, authors of the Associated Press expose of the highly-touted child welfare predictive analytics algorithm in use in Allegheny County, Pa. In April, the child welfare establishment spreads a message of health terrorism during child abuse awareness month.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

KVC case managers Victoria Clark, Dalton Shump, and Micah McEwan all work for the Olathe, Kansas office, where they coordinate and support the day-to-day needs of children and teens in foster care and their families. We interviewed them to learn more about what it’s like to serve in these important roles with KVC. Dalton Shump.

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

An outside source, like an adoption counselor, can help you better grasp all that goes into the adoption process, and can teach you about the benefits of foster care, becoming a foster parent, and adoption. For the child adoption process, there are many factors that will play into the ultimate cost of adoption.

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KVC

JANUARY 11, 2024

While foster care can be a crucial safety net for children and families in challenging circumstances, we at KVC know how important it is to help families stay together. Foster care prevention and family preservation services help families remain intact, allowing children to grow and thrive! foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Recent news stories illustrate both the terrible harm Kentucky’s “child welfare” system inflicts upon its most vulnerable children and the root cause. In more than half the “unsubstantiated” cases the children were not even interviewed before the cases were closed and their claims dismissed.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can read news accounts about the lawsuit in The New York Times , New York Daily News , NY1 News (a video interview), Gothamist , Mother Jones , The Imprint , Courthouse News Service, and Reason Ebony Gould, et. If that whets your appetite for more, you can read the entire document here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

.” ● One of the reasons Minnesota has been unable to curb child abuse deaths is because Minnesota tears apart families at one of the highest rates in the nation. And finally: two items about family defense: ● The Imprint interviews Tehra Coles , the new director of New York’s Center for Family Representation. ● And, what do you know?

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