NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. Have you noticed how the writing of “child welfare” establishment types sounds more frantic lately?

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes School of Social Work alumni whose achievements exemplify the values of the School of Social Work and who have made an exceptional impact on the profession, the community and/or Social Work education. Gary Anderson, MSW ‘76 Professor, School of Social Work, Michigan State University.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

This gathering, which drew child welfare administrators and practitioners from across the nation, was a crucial platform for discussing the opportunities and challenges presented by the new, flexible licensing standards issued by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in September 2023. Joining her was Aysha E.

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Relias

JUNE 22, 2023

It is used to treat a wide range of issues including health-related distress, family and school problems, and numerous psychiatric disorders. One marker of this is school attendance. Research had demonstrated that over 75% of kids who use CBT saw an improvement in school attendance rates.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

by Marie Cohen Recognizing implicit bias in mandated reporting training is a national focus for addressing racial inequity in child welfare. The video introducing the section explains that implicit bias harms “families of color” in the child welfare system, without providing any evidence of such harm.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Back to Blogs Community Blog Meet the Morgan County DHS Team: 100+ Years of Dedication and Expertise Morgan County Department of Human Services has a wealth of knowledge and experience in their Department of Human Services (DHS) staff. She has been the ongoing manager since 2016. The staff here are really wonderful.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The reports were careful, nuanced assessments – far better than what’s spewed forth from certain politicians, and the state’s child welfare “ombudsman.” Those last 11 paragraphs are an indirect reminder of how, in less than 25 years, Maine child welfare went from national scandal to national model to national disgrace.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2018 The State Assembly holds a hearing Oct. The structural problem In most states, the family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) is a state agency. Source: U.S. Nine states are fully local.

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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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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

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 Vermont’s human services agency continued to send teens there — even after the incidents.

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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.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

KVC has a track record of serving children with the most complex needs and for solving states’ health and human service agency challenges with innovation. Jason Hooper, President and CEO of KVC Health Systems KVC Missouri is part of KVC Health Systems, a family of nonprofits leading the way in mental health and child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Janell, thrilled to avoid reading time, trotted off to the school office.

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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. In this video , one of Britains foremost child welfare scholars, Prof. Its not just the United States. Azar said, Y.A.

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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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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If you are considering whether your child could be left home alone for remote learning, ask: Does your child understand how to properly navigate the technology required to access his/her schools online instruction? Is your child able to self-regulate their behavior with no adult oversight in online classrooms?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In September you send your son off to boarding school. Over the course of eight chapters, WUOB tells a story that strips away all the excuses for the family policing system – a more accurate term than “child welfare” system. Suppose you are very rich. But when Christmas vacation came around, he does not return. Please, Mommy.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

I’m trying out a different format for Child Welfare Monitor–a monthly newsletter format that highlights events and information that catch my eye. If you can think of a more exciting title than “Child Welfare Update,” let me know. Race trumps child welfare I: Black children don’t get attached?

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Health starts in homes, schools, workplaces and communities. This might include the quality of schools, the safety of workplaces and the availability of clean food and water. Services include family strengthening programs , mental and behavioral health services , substance use treatment , child welfare case assistance and more.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

policies that coerced parents into relinquishing their children to boarding schools, and the Indian Adoption Project a federally funded effort in the mid-20th century to force the assimilation of Native American children into white families. Culprits include U.S. In 2001 they tried to apologize for it and justify it at the same time.

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