NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s not a full-scale class-action lawsuit, but it’s a good start: Children’s Rights is representing the Minneapolis NAACP in a formal complaint to the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights. In Minnesota the power rests with law enforcement – and they abuse it constantly.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

“Even though we had fewer calls, the right calls were coming in and we got to the children who needed us,” the state’s Deputy Director of Child Welfare Practice and Programing, Lacey Andresen, told The Oregonian. Indeed, Oregon’s experience is one more debunking of the whole racially-biased “pandemic of child abuse” myth.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The fundamental fact of American “child welfare” is that if you’re not white and affluent the system will discriminate against you. That’s not unique to “child welfare” of course, but the field seems to be “in denial” about it to an extraordinary degree.) The phrase, of course, is “ best interests of the child.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution. Lawyers would scream.

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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. In today’s healthcare world, we have shifted to person-centered, well-informed consumer of services.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 31, 2025

Additionally, we collaborate with individuals who have lived experience to develop actionable solutions through initiatives like Reimagining Colorados Child Welfare System. For more information on child abuse prevention, visit the CO4Kids website or follow CO4Kids on Instagram and Facebook. to 2:30 p.m.

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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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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.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services. It’s important to note that KVC does not have the same mix of services in each state.

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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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CO4Kids

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Back to Blogs Community Blog Child Welfare Blog Using Evidence-Based Clearinghouses Finding the Right Program for Your Community: Why Reinvent the Wheel? For those seeking expert guidance, the Colorado Implementation Science Unit (CISU) at the Colorado Department of Human Services is a valuable resource.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The family police agency, the state Department of Human Services, responded with a lie – purely by accident, they say. At this point, it’s worth noting that the Hawaii Department of Human Services has a total budget of nearly $3.8 I haven’t seen the text, I don’t know if they remembered to say “please.”)

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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

JANUARY 22, 2025

For nearly a decade, Oregons approach to child welfare has amounted to a pathetic game of whack-a-mole. They also revealed that the Oregon Department of Human Services knew about the abuse and did nothing. So whack a child advocacy group brought a lawsuit to prohibit the practice.

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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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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. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Roberts discusses her book, and racism in child welfare with Marc Lamont Hill And here with Ali Velshi on MSNBC: ? It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. Velshi refers to Prof.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

At the national level, Wood has volunteered her time as a member of the Child Welfare Specialty Practice Section committee. Wood has worked in the human services and social work field for about 30 years, primarily in residential treatment, group home, and foster care environments.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities. Most notable is who wrote the latest paper: The lawyers who represent children in “child welfare” cases in New York City.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

More than a year ago Philadelphia passed a law prohibiting the city’s family policing agency, the Department of Human Services, from doing this. All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog NTDC (National Training and Development) Statewide Train-the-Trainer Training The NTDC (National Training and Development Curriculum) continues to be the preferred curriculum for certifying foster/adoptive parents in Colorado.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 1, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Colorado Juvenile Parole Board (JPB) Seeking Applications to Fill One Public At-Large Seat The JPB is a nine-member, Type 1 transfer board, supported by staff housed in the Office of Children, Youth, and Families (OCYF) within the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Gupta Kagan, a lawyer, joins with a social worker, Andrea Asnes, and a doctor who authored the definitive history of the modern child welfare surveillance state, Dr. Mical Raz, to offer guidelines for clinicians to answer this question “Should I Call Child Protection.”

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Have you noticed how the writing of “child welfare” establishment types sounds more frantic lately? Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan. I have a blog post about it. ●

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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. million views.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

People who have had their children taken away by a discriminatory child welfare system that targets Black neighborhoods for family separation do not have reproductive freedom. The brief focuses on how ICWA is the gold standard of “child welfare” for all children, not just Native American children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Amid all the concern over children in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems forced to endure makeshift placements — some even shipped more than a thousand miles away — Michigan has lost sight of the real causes of the problem.

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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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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

He has been the editor for the journal Child Welfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. Diego Bernal, MSW ‘01 Representative, Texas House of Representatives. Bernal was born in South Texas and raised in San Antonio.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Chapters examine distinct content areas, such as child welfare, aging, the climate crisis, and forced migration. As students of social work or other human services professions, it is essential that we understand how economic well-being—or the lack thereof—shapes people’s lives.

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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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Shelter, Inc

JULY 18, 2023

Simone brings over fifteen years of fund development and philanthropic innovation, primarily in human services and child welfare. Shelter, Inc. is thrilled to welcome Simone Wheeler as our new Development Director.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

As students of social work or other human services professions, it is essential that we understand how economic well-being—or the lack thereof—shapes people’s lives. Chapters examine distinct content areas, such as child welfare, aging, the climate crisis, and forced migration. Currently, about 5.4

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

And Younge never could have done this to families had the Philadelphia Department of Human Services not harassed the families and brought them before her in the first place.

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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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