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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

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 News and commentary round-up, week ending Januaruy 28, 2025

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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Lessons from two child welfare court decisions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else. 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. Lawyers would scream.

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Massachusetts pilots the most promising reform in child welfare. Guess who’s trying to undercut it.

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 news and commentary round-up, week ending February 14, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

● Think you know all about the cases at the heart of the current challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act? The federal government released its annual Child Maltreatment report. The federal government released its annual Child Maltreatment report. The Imprint has a summary.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 1, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed.

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The middle-class white person’s guide to dealing with a child abuse allegation

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

But just two days after the Parent Map story was published, KFMB-TV in San Diego reported this story: A Marine Corps pilot and his wife are suing the County of San Diego after Child Welfare Services took their seven-month-old son from their home for more than a month after the boy head-butted his mother as he played after breastfeeding.

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NCCPR News and commentary round-up, week ending February 22, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The previous round-up began by comparing a real-life case to the depiction of a dystopian child welfare surveillance state portrayed in Jessamine Chan’s novel The School for Good Mothers Now, Let Grow has a comprehensive comparison between the novel and the real world of family policing. It is not reassuring. ?

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 7, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

These are precisely the kinds of young people the Massachusetts “Child Advocate” is trying to silence. In an interview with Salon about her new book, Torn Apart , Prof. Her experience in foster care was far worse. ? I have a blog post about it. ? That is just simply false. ? But Devereux is an old-line nonprofit player. ?

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 27, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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“ACS MADE IT CLEAR—EITHER I LET THEM SEARCH MY HOME OR THEY WERE TAKING MY KIDS.”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can read news accounts about the lawsuit in The New York Times , New York Daily News , NY1 News (a video interview), Gothamist , Mother Jones , The Imprint , Courthouse News Service, and Reason Ebony Gould, et. When the mother opens the door, two government investigators are standing outside, loudly demanding to be let inside.

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“The hospital staff were texting with [the child welfare agency] about the dilation of her cervix”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

She became part of a secret docket of pregnant women singled out for intensive government monitoring. Every aspect of her delivery, down to the centimeter, was reported to the government, again without her knowledge. The government attempted to force her to undergo a medical procedure. s as-yet-unborn child to DCF.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents.

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

As the Human Rights Campaign explains, “Public child welfare agencies are government entities that provide a safety net for families. Building an atmosphere of openness and an overall feeling of comfort and trust is imperative for raising a happy, healthy child ready to take on the world.

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Cutting through the spin about predictive analytics in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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. This would be an overreach in the roles and responsibilities of a government agency. At that point three things happen: ?

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The two questions reporters covering child welfare in NYC should always ask

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. This clause is included in a law commonly known as “Elisa’s Law,” after Elisa Izquierdo, a child known-to-the-system who died in 1995. The nature of this supervision varies, but in New York, the state runs the child abuse “hotline.”

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The report describes a pattern of poor conditions and abusive practices that the SFC staff observed by reviewing media articles and company documents, supplemented by interviews with senior leaders in the four companies and visits to several facilities not operated by these companies.

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“They’re not your children anymore.” Notes on news coverage of a landmark lawsuit

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1. So the story rightly points out that For decades, class-action lawsuits have been a major vehicle for reform in child welfare systems nationwide.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Oct. 1, 2024

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 Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast.

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Myth-making in Maine

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. isn’t reassuring.

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“Maybe we're just too damn intrusive": Tracing the take-the-child-and-run mentality that has endangered Massachusetts children for more than a century

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This post is adapted from a virtual presentation I gave last month to the Racial Justice Task Force of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Child and Family Law Division. Today the Department of Public Welfare is the Department of Transitional Assistance. One last thought about child welfare and opioids.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story especially when a good reporter adds a little context.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long

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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In Oregon white middle-class foster parents try to play the bonding card to prevent relatives from taking custody of their Asian-American niece

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. This week, Sixto Cancel, who grew up in foster care and founded Think of Us gave an interview to Youth Today.

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When the journalism of child welfare fails, part one: The Boston Globe’s flying donkey

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Time for the token quote from a Black person Some reporters at the Globe seem to have a lot of trouble quoting Black people about child welfare. Here are the sentences: “It’s an extremely biased way of alerting the government to the risk of child maltreatment. Here’s a case in point from 2020. Things haven’t changed much.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

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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Adopted to death in North Carolina?

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The family policing establishment (a more accurate term than child welfare establishment) has not yet taken me up on that, and Im not about to unilaterally disarm. As for North Carolina, what good is giving more power to the state oversight agency when a top official of that agency, interviewed by WRAL, insists the system isnt broken?

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Maine’s “Senator Soundbite” styles himself a crusader against child abuse. He also was “Director of Government Relations” and “Superintendent of Schools” for one of the most notorious “troubled teen industry” institutions in America.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Bill Diamond Every state legislature has one: the lawmaker who rushes to “blast” the state or local “child welfare” 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 child welfare. Some survivors disagree.

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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR News and commentary round-up, week ending Januaruy 28, 2025

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Lessons from two child welfare court decisions

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 14, 2023

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The middle-class white person’s guide to dealing with a child abuse allegation

NCCPR News and commentary round-up, week ending February 22, 2022

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 7, 2022

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 27, 2023

“ACS MADE IT CLEAR—EITHER I LET THEM SEARCH MY HOME OR THEY WERE TAKING MY KIDS.”

“The hospital staff were texting with [the child welfare agency] about the dilation of her cervix”

What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

How to Adopt a Child: What You Need to Know About the Adoption Process

Cutting through the spin about predictive analytics in child welfare

The two questions reporters covering child welfare in NYC should always ask

A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

“They’re not your children anymore.” Notes on news coverage of a landmark lawsuit

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Oct. 1, 2024

Myth-making in Maine

“Maybe we're just too damn intrusive": Tracing the take-the-child-and-run mentality that has endangered Massachusetts children for more than a century

NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long

In Oregon white middle-class foster parents try to play the bonding card to prevent relatives from taking custody of their Asian-American niece

When the journalism of child welfare fails, part one: The Boston Globe’s flying donkey

NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

Adopted to death in North Carolina?

Maine’s “Senator Soundbite” styles himself a crusader against child abuse. He also was “Director of Government Relations” and “Superintendent of Schools” for one of the most notorious “troubled teen industry” institutions in America.

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