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.” There are many such groups. Oh, don’t get me wrong.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The federal government has released state-by-state data for the number of children taken from their parents in FFY 2021 (yes, they always run about a year late). The big national takeaway is that these data – once again – refute the racist myth about COVID-19 and “child welfare.” And NCCPR has updated our rate-of-removal index.

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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. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Have you noticed something new about the “child welfare” establishment lately? Barth, you may recall, is the one who declared that – unlike any other profession in America, child welfare is 100% free of racial bias! I have not tried to correct the typos in those tweets. Let’s have a look, line-by-line.

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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. We wouldn’t even allow a slight deviation from the rules. Lawyers would scream. Appellate courts would intervene.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 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

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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National Casa Gal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 is a federal law that recognizes tribal sovereignty and governs jurisdiction over the removal of Native American (Indian) children from their families.

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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. ACS’ game of misdirection New York is one of 13 states in which local governments run family policing systems with some sort of state supervision. Here’s how ProPublica describes one encounter: It was 5:30 a.m.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Attention child welfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world. No one should be required to “be nice to people who do despicable things.”

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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

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. There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing. She has repeatedly misused her power and privilege.

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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. Even more restrictions, more onerous treatment for any child the assessment tool thinks might run away? And what, exactly, does that mean? They were in psychiatric centers or jails.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides Who in the world could be against something like that? If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

How do we solve child neglect, how do we keep children safe in this country? And so, we are not requiring the government to come in and police them and say this is how you need to raise your children. What accounts for these results? We give families money. We give families money so they can keep their own family safe.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. But there is an agency in New York that could fix that.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

With CJMR there’s no way to protect your family from government agencies taking your most basic, and in some cases, most private data, and turning it against you. And, of course, there is nothing to show this actually prevents child abuse. But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After decades of expanding the child welfare surveillance state to the point that more than one in three children and a majority of Black children will be forced to endure the trauma of a child abuse investigation by the time they turn 18, some states have noticed: Theyve been doing the same thing over and over and getting the same lousy results.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents. It’s not like the state can’t afford to step in and provide this money.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Her new “report” on “permanency” for the American Enterprise Institute, home of Charles Murray , is so full of false premises and false promises that perhaps “permanency” is to child welfare what “creme” is to food. And adoption isn’t always the happily-ever-after that it’s often claimed to be. Font may not view that as a problem.

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CO4Kids

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Back to Blogs Community Blog Child Welfare Blog Using Evidence-Based Clearinghouses Finding the Right Program for Your Community: Why Reinvent the Wheel? Theyre like treasure troves of successful ideas created by government agencies and research institutions to help you make informed decisions. strong, moderate, promising).

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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. So how did Barth respond? It’s not a matter of ill-motivation. But Paris Hilton does.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 6, 2024

I am proud to be a part of this project, along with Naomi Schaefer-Riley AEI’s point person on child welfare, and eminent child welfare scholars, Emily Putnam-Hornstein of UNC-Chapel Hill and Sarah Font of Penn State. We will continue both to add child fatalities and to broaden the information on each death.

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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. Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize child welfare!).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

That mean old state government makes us do it! But sheesh, all that whining! Over and over again he offers the same response: It’s not my fault! And yet, Dannhauser ignored the obvious solution. That should make us wonder if he really just wants to keep things as they are.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Roberts’ essay for the Summer issue of Dissent , which begins this way: Imagine if there were an arm of the state that sent government agents to invade Black people’s homes, kept them under intense and indefinite surveillance, regulated their daily lives, and forcibly separated their families, often permanently. See also Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

But the judge disagreed with this request, considering it an infringement on the father’s right to parent his child, and did not wait for New Hampshire to respond. The interstate compact was created primarily to govern cross-border foster care moves. She runs the state’s “Office of the Child Advocate.”

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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 To get this kind of recognition is very gratifying.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The Child Welfare League (CWLA), in written testimony submitted to the SFC, added that residential services are “a small but important part of the full array of services” that must be available to meet children’s mental health needs.” ” As evidence, the report cites a 2013 report that showed 28.8

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 8, 2025

When the grand jury finally issued its report in April, 2024, its central conclusion was that its ability to investigate the case was severely hampered by the law governing the disclosure of reports declared by CPS to be unfounded.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Remember all those scare stories about how, because COVID-19 prevented overwhelmingly white disproportionately middle-class “mandated reporters” from constantly having their “eyes” on children who are neither, their parents would unleash upon their own children a “pandemic of child abuse” ? million Black children.

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KVC

MARCH 30, 2022

While Black children make up 14% of the United States child population, they account for 20% of those entering the child welfare system. Similarly, American Indian and Native Alaskan children are 1% of the US child population, but account for over 2% of those entering care. LGBTQIA+ children are also over-represented.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The Children’s Charities Coalition issued the message after the government indicated that “fundamental reform” of the sector would be implemented from April 2026 at the earliest, in its Budget document, published yesterday. However, this was dependent on the reforms being implemented from 2023-24.

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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? I think government can play a huge, constructive role in promoting the well-being of children. Let’s start with safety.

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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. Inquiring minds (at the US Dept. of Justice) want to know!

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