NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

She was also cited for a history of violence and mental health concerns, though there is no allegation she was violent with her children. It is a symptom of the culture of contempt for families and a lust for child removal that has characterized Massachusetts child welfare for decades. This is not an aberration.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

What can teachers/coaches/child care providers do if they want to help a family in need of a kin care placement? Kin or relatives are almost always the first resource that child welfare staff will explore if a child needs a safe living environment, even temporarily. How do counties define kin?

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If a familys child(ren) is detained or deported, families can contact the caseworker or their county human services department for support. To find child welfare offices in Colorado, visit the Contact Your County Human Services Department website for county specific information.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

For more than 50 years, KVC Health Systems has provided heart-centered service to children and families. These services strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness.

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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. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Researchers hope to ultimately determine if monthly cash gifts over the course of a year prevent future involvement with the Illinois child welfare system by randomly assigning 800 families who are receiving services through the Intact Family Services program to receive a monthly stipend. rural vs suburban).

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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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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I single these stories out not because they are exceptionally awful - there’s far worse out there - but precisely because they are so typical of the journalism of child welfare. One study after another has found that even small amounts of cash significantly reduce what child welfare systems label as “neglect.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado child welfare in September 2023, we included a section called Tapeworm in the System. Even more restrictions, more onerous treatment for any child the assessment tool thinks might run away? And what, exactly, does that mean? They were in psychiatric centers or jails.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

She also abused prescription opioids and had mental health issues. Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides Who in the world could be against something like that? If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For many young people, the emotional scars of trauma can last a lifetime, affecting their mental health, relationships, and overall quality of life. This is especially true for children who have faced extreme circumstances such as abuse, neglect, or loss, often as part of child welfare systems.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

He is the chemical dependency track coordinator and mental health track chair. He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. Todd Sage , Ph.D., MSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

After an allegation of abuse or neglect is substantiated, an agency can place a child in foster care or open a case for in-home services, among other options. Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize child welfare!). percent of the national total.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After decades of expanding the child welfare surveillance state to the point that more than one in three children and a majority of Black children will be forced to endure the trauma of a child abuse investigation by the time they turn 18, some states have noticed: Theyve been doing the same thing over and over and getting the same lousy results.

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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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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 28, 2022

To add, there continues to be issues of drinking water for many Indigenous persons and child welfare still needs reform in most jurisdictions. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. Your day is over.

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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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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The Child Welfare League (CWLA), in written testimony submitted to the SFC, added that residential services are “a small but important part of the full array of services” that must be available to meet children’s mental health needs.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I have written before about how mandatory child abuse reporting laws backfire. They overload child welfare systems – or as they should be called, “family policing systems” -- with false reports and cases in which poverty is confused with neglect , stealing time from finding the few children in real danger.

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 19, 2022

Field Faculty Rosalva Osorio Cooksy and Clinical Professor Julie Ribaudo were part of the national task force that developed the Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health, which was released in early April. Osorio Cooksy was part of the team developing Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. This one takes on what may be the most dangerous phrase in the family policing lexicon: “best interests of the child.” That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He He continues as a professor.) I have a blog post about it.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

KVC Health Systems is a family of nonprofit organizations working to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. Storytelling’s power is why, each year, KVC Health Systems holds a Story Contest.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Primary Prevention Efforts: Advocacy, Legislative Participation, Awareness Campaigns Secondary Prevention Efforts : Referrals, Case Management Tertiary Prevention Efforts: Mental Health Treatment, Trauma Informed Care NASW engages in prevention through social work trainings, publications, webinars, and legislative advocacy that supports the wellbeing (..)

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

As of July 2023, KVC Health Systems ranks High or Above Average in 14 of the 15 categories. This means KVC is outperforming its peers in child welfare and mental health, its peers in healthcare more broadly, and even most for-profit companies across all sectors.

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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. ● WABE Public Radio in Atlanta has published and broadcast a stunning story.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Disrupting Stigma: How Understanding, Empathy, and Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Families Affect by Substance Use and Mental Disorders. Online Tutorials , for Substance Use Treatment Professionals, Child Welfare Professionals and Legal Professionals.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. With no foster families or treatment centers available, Alex ended up spending the night in a child welfare office. Across the U.S.,

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Social Work Blog

MAY 6, 2022

Megan, who continues to work in community mental health, shared that although she was able to qualify for the National Health Service Corps program, she continues to have a large debt burden as repayment funds received only primarily covered much of accrued the interest on her student loan debt.

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KVC

JUNE 13, 2023

If you have such a story, sharing it with others or with a mental health professional can help you feel freer and lighter, encourage others, and can even change the world by sparking hope. Do you believe every child deserves to be safe and connected to a strong family? We received many entries to our 2022 Story Contest.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Commission on Civil Rights is examining racism in the New York family policing system (a more accurate term than “child welfare” system). The New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. New York’s institutional providers of family defense prepared in-depth written testimony that is a report in itself.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 9, 2023

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. In the meantime, her daughters suffered abuse at a foster home and her younger son descended into a mental health crisis. Please, Mommy.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

And in Texas, The Imprint reports on children who are not taken directly by the family police but are relinquished by desperate parents: Now, two pieces of legislation calling for expanded mental health services in Texas offer lawmakers an opportunity to assist families early on before desperation and thin hope push parents toward the drastic decision (..)

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Q: Why did you decide to become a social worker and work in the child welfare arena? A child welfare social worker meets with her clients. Williams: As a child, outside of my mother and aunt, I did not have a lot of guidance and stability from adults to teach me how to carry myself in a mature and respectful manner.

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KVC

MARCH 9, 2023

Join a values-driven team that is passionate about transforming people’s experience of child welfare and mental health services. The post Self-Care for Social Workers: Seven Steps to Avoid Burnout appeared first on KVC Health Systems.

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