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. Source: U.S. isn’t reassuring.

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

” The future of human rights in the face of rapid technological change is emerging as an important space right now. Here’s one piece: The need to protect the data in our brains – and – an interview with Dr. Nita Farahany about her new book The Fight for Your Brain. This is an important read.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution. Lawyers would scream.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2023 America’s massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. That’s why we’ve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove” anything.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Department of Human Services, went to great lengths to spin the results and direct readers toward the spin instead of the reviews themselves. Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. And here’s part two , which explains why “permanency” is to child welfare as “creme" is to food: a fake substitute. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The foster parents in this case didn’t do anything illegal – in fact the placement was authorized by a government agency, and the foster parents probably have the best of intentions. We don’t know why, but we do know this: An evaluation from the Oregon Department of Human Services, described the child as “white – no cultural issues.”

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