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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 childwelfare services designed to help families stay together. ” As the ChildWelfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.
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 childwelfare!).
They include classes and workshops on topics such as child development, effective communication, and positive discipline. Counseling may also be available for individuals, couples, and families, addressing issues like mental health, domestic violence, and substanceabuse. Reduced involvement with the childwelfare system.
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 foster care systems. Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges.
As an illustration, I am reposting my 2022 review of Roberts’ most recent book, Torn Apart: How the ChildWelfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer Worl d. childwelfare system. See my commentary on the abuse homicides of Rashid Bryant and Julissia Batties , for example).
A bill in New Hampshire effectively equates strong emotion with abuse. Texas dialed back the power of its family police agency (a more accurate term than childwelfare agency). There are an enormous number of things government can and should do to improve childrens well-being. So did Washington State.
Other significant risk factors include housing instability, caregiver instability, substanceabuse, involvement in the juvenile justice system, and running away. Governments can pass stronger policies, increase funding for victim services, and train law enforcement.
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. Second, all substance use isn’t opioids.
The real story of COVID-19 and “childwelfare” was not a “pandemic of childabuse” -- that never happened. Instead, we need to unlearn the notion that the government knows best. The state’s childwelfare “ombuds” investigated and found that KING got it right. Shanta Trivedi’s analysis, in Ms. ,
Administration for Children and Families, are based on data that states submit to the National ChildAbuse and Neglect (NCANDS) data system. The latest report, Child Maltreatment 2022 (CM2022), provides data for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2022, which ended on September 30, 2022.
OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than childwelfare 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.
But treating the decline in foster care (the direct result of government actions) as a desirable outcome in itself can contribute to a disregard of actual childwelfare outcomes like safety and permanency. How did DCYF reduce foster care by nearly 50 percent? Sometimes the providers refused to cooperate.
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 childwelfare. 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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