Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 10, 2025

by Marie Cohen This post was originally published on Child Welfare Monitor DC on December 9, 2024. Because I rarely post on that site, I am letting it expire and will include future DC-focused posts on Child Welfare Monitor. The number of children entering foster care increased for the first time in over ten years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 19, 2025

But Burkhammer wants to prohibit West Virginias family police agency (a more accurate term than child welfare agency) from screening out any report from a mandated reporter and they make the overwhelming majority of reports. More will be abused in foster care. More will emerge years later unable to love or trust anyone.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in foster care. It is a symptom of the culture of contempt for families and a lust for child removal that has characterized Massachusetts child welfare for decades. This is not an aberration.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

What can teachers/coaches/child care providers do if they want to help a family in need of a kin care placement? Kin or relatives are almost always the first resource that child welfare staff will explore if a child needs a safe living environment, even temporarily.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

The Maine State Capitol Things keep getting worse in Maine, a state that once was on the verge of having a model child welfare system. Dreadful decisions by two governors and vile grandstanding from one current and one former public official plunged the state into foster-care panic.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If a familys child(ren) is detained or deported, families can contact the caseworker or their county human services department for support. To find child welfare offices in Colorado, visit the Contact Your County Human Services Department website for county specific information.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To read the account on CR’s website you’d think their suit turned a dreadful, failing “child welfare” system into a shining success story. But just four years later, the Tennessee Department of Child Services, their family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) has opened a bunch of new ones.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. “We

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

For example, in Minnesota Black children are twice as likely to be thrown into foster care as white children. Minnesota’s record of racial disparity in investigations and foster care is worse than the national average, and the disparities in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties are worse than the state average.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s the real message behind a monthly newsletter touting “the good stuff in child welfare.” Let’s focus on the “good stuff”: If you happen to be a foster child in Grand Rapids Michigan you can get a free haircut! It’s called “The Good Stuff in Child Welfare” and it comes from The Field Center.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Now, let’s see if Senator Soundbite tries to undermine the progress The Oregonian has a story about the decline in foster care numbers in that state – and how it’s not due to more child abuse supposedly being hidden due to COVID lockdowns. That will start a foster-care panic, another surge in needless removals of children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. Presumably this also would rule out a large proportion of those providing kinship foster care, since they tend to be grandparents. The phrase, of course, is “ best interests of the child.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At last: A group involved in oversight of Maine child welfare that shows a real understanding of the problems. The Maine Child Welfare Advisory Panel (MCWAP) Citizen Review Panel has produced a report with six recommendations. Note that often these programs have the full support of state or local child welfare agencies.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” Where oh where to begin. There are many such groups.

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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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KVC

MARCH 30, 2022

Whether foster care seems like something you’re called to or your are simply curious to learn more, you’re in the right place. On any given day, nearly 407,000 children are in foster care in America. The primary goal of foster care is reunification. The Statistics: Children in Foster Care.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

States have been hard-put to devise plans for implementing the new services because the bill was designed to fix a problem that did not exist–the alleged absence of child welfare services designed to help families stay together. Sometimes, in order to prevent the need for foster care, mom and dad might need a little help.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Yes, it’s this guy: It’s tough being part of America’s “child welfare” establishment these days. Americans are catching on to the harm done by a massive child welfare surveillance state that falsely equates child removal with child safety, and investigates the homes of more than half of all Black children.

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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

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

JANUARY 28, 2025

Interviews with boarding school survivors, child welfare leaders and tribal members reveal a mix of concern and cautious optimism that the work [former Interior Secretary Deb] Haaland set in motion will continue. Child welfares crimes against Native Americans arent just in the past.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

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. Writing in The Imprint , Prof. We wouldn’t even allow a slight deviation from the rules. Lawyers would scream.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 12, 2023

You probably remember the story: White adoptive parents of six black children drive themselves and the children off a cliff, killing them all. That may be all you remember, and perhaps wondering what would drive such a noble couple to such despair. After all, they rescued these children from their terrible parents, didn’t they?

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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

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 2, 2022

The biggest problem with the so-called “child welfare” 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!”

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CO4Kids

MARCH 31, 2025

Additionally, we collaborate with individuals who have lived experience to develop actionable solutions through initiatives like Reimagining Colorados Child Welfare System. For more information on child abuse prevention, visit the CO4Kids website or follow CO4Kids on Instagram and Facebook. to 2:30 p.m.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And, concerning solutions: So child welfare experts that I've spoken to have pointed to a few changes. In contrast, the Globe story tells us the problem is too few foster parents. Other states are as bad or worse, but, as it happens, the history of “child welfare” failure in Massachusetts is particularly well-documented.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2025

ENTRIES INTO FOSTER CARE 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are two very important things to know about the process by which a child welfare agency removes a child from a parent and places that child with some other kinship caregiver. This process, known as kinship foster care, is usually the least harmful form of foster care. Easier than what?

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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

AUGUST 22, 2022

They even acknowledged their own role in “contributing to racism in the legal field” in general and “within the child welfare legal field in particular…” Offhand, I can’t think of an organization that says “establishment” more than the American Bar Association. The topic is “anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

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. In fact, Arizona has been in foster-care panic mode for most of the past 20 years – a national record. times higher than the rate in New York City.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Watch the bodycam footage – but don’t watch it quite yet, since it might prompt you to jump to a conclusion that some of America’s leading child welfare “scholars” want you to know couldn’t possibly correct. Peoples, ( OK, you can look now) you might be tempted to conclude that there is racial bias in child welfare.

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