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

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Alan Dettlaff, was invited by the Child Welfare League of America, a trade association whose members include agencies paid for each day they hold children in foster care, to write the forward for an issue of one of their journals. And here’s still another study showing that the best “preventive service” is cash.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

.” -- Ann Haines Holy Eagle on what the Minnesota family police stole from her By now we’re all familiar with one odious practice of most family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies): They steal the Social Security benefits to which some foster children are entitled and keep the money for themselves.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Have you noticed how the writing of “child welfare” establishment types sounds more frantic lately? Great news, Missouri parents: The state Department of Social Services says you are now free to smoke marijuana, as long as you’re away from the kids! – Josh Gupta-Kagan. I have a blog post about it. ●

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

has achieved national accreditation through COA Accreditation, a service of Social Current. is a child welfare agency that works to end the cycle of child abuse and neglect through comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Shelter, Inc. Shelter, Inc.

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Swhelper

APRIL 19, 2018

Social Work Helper hosted a free live discussion with security expert and threat management specialist, Hector Alvarez, on workplace violence prevention and tips.Support authors and subscribe to contentThis is premium stuff. What does the #neveragain movement mean for workplace violence for helping professionals?

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 7, 2024

Administration for Children and Families, are based on data that states submit to the National Child Abuse 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.

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CO4Kids

JANUARY 31, 2025

This rule change will clarify actions required by county child welfare staff and enhance Colorados Child Welfare response to the unregulated custody transfer of children and youth. The purpose of the rule work is to align Colorado’s rule and practice with the requirements of Colorado House Bill 23-1157.

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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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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. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

. ● In Hawaii, Honolulu Civil Beat reports, The estate of a 6-year-old Waimanalo girl who died from alleged abuse in perhaps the most notorious child welfare cases in recent Hawaii history is suing her adoptive parents and the state for gross negligence.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Social Services Block Grant Report The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) hereby gives notice of the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) Report to the citizens of Colorado for review and comment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Department of Human Services, went to great lengths to spin the results and direct readers toward the spin instead of the reviews themselves. 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.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

After closely following the confirmation hearings, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) has reached a resolute conclusion: Robert F. is not the right pick to become the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Kennedy Jr.

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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. Reducing inequities around health care, education, and essential social services results in positive health outcomes on a community and individual level.

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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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