Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

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Child Welfare Welfare Justice and Corrections Administration 163

Relias

AUGUST 22, 2022

It’s hard being a human services worker. Let’s take a few minutes to understand these challenges and how human services professionals can work to overcome them. Challenges a human services worker will face. Often, they and/or family members demand specific types of interventions. A shift in roles.

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Human Services Healthcare Child Welfare Interventional 105

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. I’m not saying that all families were getting all the services they needed.

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Child Welfare Medicaid Foster Care Welfare 175

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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Child Welfare Welfare Justice and Corrections Foster Care 103

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

For them, intervention by the family police is, literally, the norm. For the Donlins, their nightmare at the hands of the family police, known in Iowa as the Department of Human Services, consisted of eight months of hypersurveillance and an attempt to take away their young children.

Foster Care 113

Foster Care Hospitals Human Services Child Welfare 113

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. But that has failed repeatedly.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Interviewing 98

University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The primary goal of the project is to determine whether the “Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations (BPC)”— a trauma-informed parenting intervention — is effective at promoting child, parent, and family wellbeing among underserved families at-risk for involvement with the child welfare system.

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Administration Child Welfare Interventional Welfare 52