NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The big national takeaway is that these data – once again – refute the racist myth about COVID-19 and “child welfare.” Nationwide, entries into foster care declined by five percent. In Kansas, entries into foster care also increased by five percent – but Kansas was worse than Missouri to begin with.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Imprint asks if the new Secretary of the Interior, Doug Berman will continue the ongoing project to document the harms of Indian boarding schools? Child welfares crimes against Native Americans arent just in the past. After some predatory events occurred, I was put into foster care with my three half-siblings.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 2, 2022

It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. On the other hand, another in a long line of studies suggests it may reduce foster care entries. Connecticut is a case in point. The effort is probably sincere.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. KVC Kansas.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The same scholar who claims predictive analytics in child welfare isn’t biased also signs on to an extremist agenda calling for an automatic, mandatory extra level of family police surveillance of thousands of impoverished families. She also misunderstands abolition and mocks the words of a Black child welfare activist.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. Parents who lose their children to foster care, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

It turns out, Paris Hilton knows more about "residential treatment facilities" than at least one self-proclaimed "child welfare scholar." By pretending that this industry has nothing to do with his sacred, beloved “child welfare” system. That’s why you’re in foster care.” So how did Barth respond?

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 14, 2024

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 folks your student trusts at school and keep them updated. Communicate. Let kids be kids.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

– or face an allegation that it was “unknown” if a child was fed? Does DHS think any time a child decides the food in the school cafeteria is too “gross” and decides to skip lunch – which might mean he doesn’t eat for eight hours – the school and/or the parents are guilty of neglect? Writing in The Imprint , Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anna Arons of New York University School of Law, in which she summarized her landmark study “An Unintended Abolition.” What COVID changed – and the dogwhistling that followed First was just the shutdown of in-person schooling, which reduced the contact between children and this army of mandated reporters.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Shanta Trivedi teaches and writes about the child welfare system at the University of Baltimore School of Law. This bill would establish that constitutional protections apply in child welfare investigations and would allow parents to make informed decisions throughout the process.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

in other words, all the things children did routinely before the days of fearmongering, helicopter parenting and endless messages to call child protective services about anything and everything. Peoples, ( OK, you can look now) you might be tempted to conclude that there is racial bias in child welfare. Peoples’ word for it.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Fostering is just one of many ways to help children in crisis, so here are seven other ways you can help a child in foster care: 1. Children in foster care have likely experienced abuse, neglect, or some type of family trauma. 55% less likely than their peers to skip school . Provide Respite Care .

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

At Shelter Youth & Family Services, we honor Black History Month by shining a light on three pioneers who tirelessly fought for justice and equality in America, including in the child welfare system. Ensuring that Black children in care are placed in environments that acknowledge and celebrate their cultural identity is crucial.

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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 15, 2025

Part One deals with widespread abuse in foster care. Part Three compares Philadelphia to the state-run system in neighboring New Jersey, which has improved child safety while dramatically reducing the number of families it tears apart. Be sure to read it to the end. I have a blog post about it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Is Pittsburgh’s “child welfare” 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. Robyn Powell of the University of Oklahoma School of Law and Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

The child welfare system—the assemblage of public and private child protection agencies, foster care, and preventive services—is a crucial part of the carceral machinery in Black communities. ? Tricia Stephens of the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Tarek Ismail of the City University of New York School of Law, rebutted them in this column for the New York Daily News. ? The story is called “Slash Child Abuse With One Simple Trick: Cash ” ? Of course, the city’s family policing agency offered up all the usual excuses. But the story itself shows why none of this is enough.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. What’s behind this national foster care placement crisis? But this isn’t what foster care is for.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

S he describes her own experience of retaliation after she complained about one of the private foster care agencies with which ACS contracts, offers an overview of how “predictive analytics” makes things worse, and makes clear we need to dig deeper into how ACS is using it. ? with panelists Prof.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

NASW Senior Practice Associate, School Social Work and Child Welfare. Social Workers who serve these children, train, and update their skills as they develop a uniqueness that supports the child and their “Forever Family” through the challenges of creating a nurturing permanent environment. Searching for Birth Relatives.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Here's step one: Right now, we're seeing the child welfare establishment respond to calls for abolition by talking about "system transformation." The University of Baltimore School of Law hosted a webinar about the stakes as the U.S. Supreme Court considers the Indian Child Welfare 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

JUNE 9, 2023

How many times have you read what journalists covering child welfare call “the fatality series”? Vivek Sankaran, of the University of Michigan School of Law , to blast the longstanding consent decree won as a result of one of those awful McLawsuits brought by the group that calls itself “Children’s Rights.”

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They urged the Supreme Court to “uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act’s constitutionality in all respects.”

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

By Kimberly Phillips Many young adults celebrate their 18 th and 21 st birthdays with presents and cake, but those in the foster care system might dread those milestones for the uncertainty they bring. If she failed, there was no place to fall. What we need is to change systemic things to make their lives easier.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Sarah Font is telling foster youth boils down to this: You can have a free college education – as long as you forego any chance that there will be a family cheering you on at graduation. After following issues involving foster care for decades, I’ve gotten used to the extent to which people in the system hate birth parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the Philadelphia Inquirer , a former foster youth, Christina Sorenson, writes that Today, Pennsylvania faces an overcrowding crisis, but rather than imagining a different solution, or investing in legislation to ensure the safety of our youth currently placed, there are calls to build new facilities.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The attempt to use family policing to destroy Native American culture didn’t end with the horrible institutions known as “boarding schools.” It was followed by a systematic campaign of forced adoption into white homes, spearheaded by, among others, the Child Welfare League of America. Foster-care panic is like a fire.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

.” -- Ann Haines Holy Eagle on what the Minnesota family police stole from her By now we’re all familiar with one odious practice of most family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies): They steal the Social Security benefits to which some foster children are entitled and keep the money for themselves.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Sixto Cancel grew up in foster care, survived the experience and now runs Think of Us , an organization dedicated to changing the system that did him, and so many other children, so much harm. The former lawyer for the family policing agency continues: [Cancel] cites his bad experiences in foster care. …

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KVC

MAY 19, 2023

Nevertheless, I Persisted: Robin’s Inspiring Success Story When Robin was just three years old, her mother’s substance use led to her and her siblings being placed in foster care for their safety. Read how Robin took control of her destiny, choosing to defy the statistics about children in foster care rather than be defined by them.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2023

By Sue Coyle, MSW Every year, more than 20,000 young adults age out of the foster care system. They are between the ages of 18 and 21, some having chosen to voluntarily remain in care after 18. After all, says Judith Schagrin, LCSW-C, a public policy analyst in Baltimore, “These are our children.”

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