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They think they’re going to be working with families, helping families to engage in services, to be self-sufficient, to move on to higher education,” Everett said. The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in fostercare. This is not an aberration.
ENTRIES INTO FOSTERCARE PER THOUSAND IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN, 2022 This is what we mean by "Child Rremoval Capital of America Of all the options for placing children torn from their homes, among the very worst are so-called shelters. First came the bill that would send caseloads skyrocketing.
The biggest problem with the so-called “childwelfare” system is that it has nothing to do with the welfare of children. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) replaced welfare as we knew it. So she wasn’t home when a babysitter allegedly sexually abused her child. it has to be held for the children!”
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 fostercare for decades, I’ve gotten used to the extent to which people in the system hate birth parents.
The end of 2021 brought more outstanding reporting on various dark corners of the “childwelfare” 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 childwelfare slush fund.
They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities. She’s even part of a group that rushed to defend a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor beloved by Tucker Carlson.
Or they might just call the child abuse hotline. Even if they know that can do enormous harm, they may feel obligated to do it because they are mandated reporters. Imagine anyone on the Left, let alone anyone prominent in a self-proclaimed “anti-racist organization” saying that “stop and frisk” policing is preventive, not surveillance.
As Sankaran and Church point out: any public reporting of the number of adopted children who once again enter fostercare is likely an underestimate. Even with these limited data, a recent study found that more than 66,000 adopted children ended up back in fostercare between 2008 to 2020, an average of 12 a day.
That’s because it’s meant specifically for those who have read a study concocted by a who’s who of family policing’s “caucus of denial” – those who claim that, somehow, childwelfare is magically immune from the racism that infects every other aspect of American life. Therefore “childwelfare” isn’t racist.
● Take a step back, see – and hear – how the family policing system really works in this report from NPR, featuring perspectives from JMAC for Families and NCCPR: ● You know how defenders of computerized racial profiling in family policing (more accurate terms than “predictive analytics” in “childwelfare”) defend their biased algorithms by a.
Educator : Social workers educate clients about resources, coping strategies, and life skills to enhance their well-being and self-sufficiency. ChildWelfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or fostercare systems.
by Marie Cohen Recognizing implicit bias in mandated reporting training is a national focus for addressing racial inequity in childwelfare. I had my first experience with the updated training last month as part of my preparation to serve as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a child in fostercare.
Maine's first childwelfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in fostercare. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ?
When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado childwelfare 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. Presumably, they mean inviting fences painted in pretty colors perhaps?
For more than half of all Black children, a child abuse investigation will be part of their childhoods. I also expressed the hope that we would see more stories about such families and more self-reflection within the system and in journalism. A dirty home means you’re neglecting your children – so they wind up in fostercare.
It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in fostercare are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias.
Here are the most common types of child abuse: Emotional abuse: Mental or emotional abuse typically aims to impact a child’s well-being, self-esteem and self-worth. This can include name-calling, rejection, withholding affection, shaming, diminishing, emotional manipulation or threatening a child. Mentor a child.
One report revealed that this support and acceptance is associated with greater self-esteem, social support, general health status, less depression, less substance abuse and less suicidal ideation and behaviors among LGBTQIA+ youth. Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.
“But a group of mothers, attorneys, and other advocates who know the fostercare system from the inside saw things differently,” Hurley writes in a just-published follow-up story for The New Republic. But in the meantime, the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth has done all sorts of harm to children. Emphasis added] ?
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. Oregons governor wants to loosen regulations curing abuse in fostercare because they cant think of any other way to deal with a so-called shortage of placements.
This side of the childwelfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.
During the three-year pilot, there were few reports of physical abuse, neglect or imminent harm for program participants. This included five favorable effects on child safety based on parents’ self-reports of maltreatment, with no favorable effects on other measures of child safety.
● Dr. Sharon McDaniel, a pioneer in doing kinship fostercare the right way, speaks out about the enormous harm of doing it the wrong way – through the subterfuge known as “hidden fostercare.” They’re suing Riverside County and the private agency that oversaw their fostercare.
Readers are invited to practice self-care while navigating this content and to consider reading the findings with a group to engage in collective reflection. Tyrone Howard et al, Beyond Blind Removal: Color Consciousness and Anti-Racism in Los Angeles County ChildWelfare. million times.
Self-proclaimed liberal Elizabeth Bartholet wanted to force every pregnant woman to admit a spy into her living room from pregnancy until the child was preschool age. Bartholet doesn’t say if women would have to self-report their pregnancies or if their doctors or maybe their neighbors would turn them in.)
A longtime "childwelfare" establishment apparatchik says the quiet part out loud Most of the time, the columns that longtime “childwelfare” establishment apparatchik Paul DiLorenzo, writes for The Imprint , are just dull regurgitations of establishment talking points. A judge has to approve everything we do.”
On August 24, 2024, the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) proudly announced in a press statement that it had reduced the number of children in out-of-home care by nearly half since 2018. Specifically, the number of children in fostercare had fallen from 9,171 in 2018 to 4,971 as of August 14, 2024.
Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease fostercare caseloads and refer families to community supports.
Speaking of the harm of institutionalization, the Concord Monitor continues its series on that states obscene rate of institutionalization with a look at desperate families who voluntarily send their children to faraway institutions because New Hampshire has nothing to offer. But it sure seems like a sin.
In an article about The False Gods of Social Change Kevin Campbell, Cormac Russell and Elizabeth Wendell write: In practice, service users receiving aid from the government and charities exchange freedoms of self-determination, choice, participation, and control for the promise of subsistence, not equity, health, or even dignity.
He co-authors a “news analysis” for the Los Angeles Times that sounds like a pitch by a company selling “predictive analytics” software for childwelfare. The post talked about Therolf’s profound discomfort with any suggestion that there is systemic racial bias in childwelfare. Second of two parts. Read part one here.
Bill Diamond Every state legislature has one: the lawmaker who rushes to “blast” the state or local “childwelfare” agency after a child “known to the system” dies. A brief recap For most of the past 25 years, Maine embraced a take-the-child-and-run approach to childwelfare. Some survivors disagree.
Part one of NCCPRs news and commentary year in review for 2024 Tomorrow: Part two looks at some of 2024s finest journalism exploring wrongful removal and other harms to children caused by our current system of family policing. Americas massive childwelfare surveillance state was built on horror stories.
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