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. … So under Family First, we created new federal funding for those services. .

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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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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. A few years later, the parent organization KVC Health Systems was created. Read more about KVC’s mental health treatment services here.

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CO4Kids

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Back to Blogs News & Press New law helps relatives and family friends care for kids, providing an alternative to placement in foster care DENVER (September 23, 2024) – The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) celebrates a new state law that provides more resources for kinship caregivers of children in child welfare cases.

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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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Relias

JUNE 22, 2023

Whether this comes in the form of bullying, abuse, loss of loved ones, childhood trauma negatively affects children’s mental health and creates lifelong mental and physical health conditions. The benefits of CBT for kids and teenagers For kids and teens struggling with their mental health, CBT offers many benefits.

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Relias

MARCH 11, 2025

This article was written in partnership with the Child Welfare League of America , a coalition of hundreds of private and public agencies that has supported children and families since 1920. Burnout and high turnover rates continue to challenge many industries, particularly in behavioral health and human services.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples. Economic Well-Being: An Introduction provides us with tools to accomplish these goals.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Using an intersectionality framework, the authors bring together previously fragmented research into this population and explain through case studies the topics particularly relevant to South Asians, including domestic violence, mental health, parenting, gender and sexual orientation, workplace barriers, and aging.

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Relias

JUNE 22, 2022

Last month, I had the privilege of partnering with Relias to facilitate a webinar entitled: Co-Parenting Building Blocks To Promote Children’s Mental Health and Development. It was wonderful to have such great participation and audience engagement from those in attendance.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Background There are calls to change the child welfare system to promote better outcomes for children. Removal and placement of a child outside of the home is traumatic and can impact their mental health long term. What does This Mean for Child Welfare Social Workers? About the Law.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

KVC Missouri and Great Circle, two nonprofits with a shared mission to provide high-quality children’s mental health and family services, have finalized the agreement that will guide their integration. We can truly transform the face of foster care and mental health.” Louis and elsewhere.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed. However, there is some hope in the form of federal assistance for the child welfare system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

Texas Public Radio reports An 11-year-old girl living in a hotel under the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) care as part of its Children Without Placement (CWOP) program was abducted and nearly trafficked by a 42-year-old man on Valentines Day, according to a police report.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That’s why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case. Because the lawsuits, settlements and verdicts against the Department of Human Services for botching their life-and-death job just keep piling up.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But, as so often happens, because family policing agencies prey on the poor, it also became an account of how the so-called child welfare system makes everything worse. Now it’s a book: Invisible Child, published today by Random House. It is a must-read for anyone concerned about race, poverty, and child welfare.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

is not the right pick to become the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. NASW remains unwavering in its commitment to advocating for policies that safeguard and elevate the social work profession, bolster public health, and ensure equitable access to vital services for all communities.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 14, 2025

Back to Blogs Community Blog Connecting Research to Practice: Meet Jennifer Weber, Research Coordinator Jennifer Weber, PhD joined the Colorado Implementation Science Unit (CISU) at the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) as their Research Coordinator at the end of October 2024.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A Trump Administration official explained that even if they were wrong to take them from their parents in the first place, if they tried to find them and return them now it would “present grave child welfare concerns. … It would destabilize the permanency of their existing home environment, and could be traumatic to the children.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The term “social determinants of health” refers to non-medical factors in the environments where we are born, live, work and play that impact various health-related outcomes and risks. Social and Community Context The relationships and connections a person has with others influence their mental and physical health.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Americas massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. Thats why weve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove anything. Vermonts human services agency continued to send teens there even after the incidents.

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