Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 10, 2025

by Marie Cohen This post was originally published on Child Welfare Monitor DC on December 9, 2024. Because I rarely post on that site, I am letting it expire and will include future DC-focused posts on Child Welfare Monitor.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

I know children/youth who came home from school, and their parents never came home. School or childcare officials can contact the child or youths emergency contacts provided by the family during enrollment. What can teachers/coaches/child care providers do if they want to help a family in need of a kin care placement?

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado? The child welfare system for the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) oversees child welfare practices, policies and funding. Will county child welfare staff follow a family protection plan?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The reality is we are moving kids night to night, we’re driving kids across the state for one-night placements to get them to school, we’re putting bandages on situations.”… 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.

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National Casa Gal

JULY 30, 2024

The post Focus on back to school; education, CASA/GAL volunteers, and children in the child welfare system appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children. CASA and GAL volunteers are trained to gather information to advocate for children’s best interest in the court and in the classroom.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

By Tim Spencer-Lane The Childrens Wellbeing and Schools Bill was introduced in Parliament on 17 December 2024. The purpose of the FGDM meeting is to enable a childs family network to meet to discuss the welfare needs of the child and to make a proposal in response to concerns about the childs welfare.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Two UConn School of Social Work faculty , Meg Feely, Ph.D. , MSW, LCSW , have joined a national mission to investigate whether increasing economic support to low-income families can improve child maltreatment outcomes. and Ann Marie Garran, Ph.D., several years ago.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s the real message behind a monthly newsletter touting “the good stuff in child welfare.” Let’s focus on the “good stuff”: If you happen to be a foster child in Grand Rapids Michigan you can get a free haircut! That’s because “looking their best helps students feel their best as they head back to school.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The same scholar who claims predictive analytics in child welfare isn’t biased also signs on to an extremist agenda calling for an automatic, mandatory extra level of family police surveillance of thousands of impoverished families. She also misunderstands abolition and mocks the words of a Black child welfare activist.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” There are many such groups.

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Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Mayloni mentioned a report that was made by her school in March; it is not clear whether that report was omitted by DCFS because it was “not relevant to Gavin.”) This report most likely came from Gavin’s school, and his “behaviors” included eating food from the trash. These three reports likely came from the school.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. There aren’t enough beds for little guys that need this level of care, and the child welfare system has to kind of figure out ‘how can we do the best with what we have?’”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

– or face an allegation that it was “unknown” if a child was fed? Does DHS think any time a child decides the food in the school cafeteria is too “gross” and decides to skip lunch – which might mean he doesn’t eat for eight hours – the school and/or the parents are guilty of neglect? Writing in The Imprint , Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The big national takeaway is that these data – once again – refute the racist myth about COVID-19 and “child welfare.” The federal government has released state-by-state data for the number of children taken from their parents in FFY 2021 (yes, they always run about a year late). And NCCPR has updated our rate-of-removal index.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? Anna Arons of New York University School of law who called it, “An Unintended Abolition.”

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 8, 2025

It soon came out that school staff had made multiple calls to the state child abuse hotline during the 16 months before Thomas death, describing how he and his brother were starved, beaten and forced to sleep in a garage and urinate upon themselves. School staff observed the children eating food from the trash and the floor.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Have you noticed something new about the “child welfare” establishment lately? Among those sounding increasingly frantic is Richard Barth, former dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland. He begins with this: Nice to see acknowledgment of the many ways that child welfare services do help support families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

in other words, all the things children did routinely before the days of fearmongering, helicopter parenting and endless messages to call child protective services about anything and everything. Peoples, ( OK, you can look now) you might be tempted to conclude that there is racial bias in child welfare. Peoples’ word for it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 2, 2022

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. It’s why all those plans for kinder, gentler family policing won’t do much good – and might even backfire. Connecticut is a case in point. The effort is probably sincere.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Shanta Trivedi teaches and writes about the child welfare system at the University of Baltimore School of Law. This bill would establish that constitutional protections apply in child welfare investigations and would allow parents to make informed decisions throughout the process.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Imprint asks if the new Secretary of the Interior, Doug Berman will continue the ongoing project to document the harms of Indian boarding schools? Child welfares crimes against Native Americans arent just in the past.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. Or they’d interrogate the child at school. Here’s how ProPublica describes one encounter: It was 5:30 a.m. Flashlights beamed in through the windows of the ground-floor apartment in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania Law School is quite a piece of work. The school’s Dean, Theodore Ruger, has written a letter urging the University to consider imposing a “major sanction” against the self-proclaimed “race realist.” She also condemned the Indian Child Welfare Act. They also include Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Attention child welfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world. No one should be required to “be nice to people who do despicable things.”

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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. The next subsidiary is KVC Kansas which provides child welfare and mental health services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anna Arons of New York University School of Law, in which she summarized her landmark study “An Unintended Abolition.” What COVID changed – and the dogwhistling that followed First was just the shutdown of in-person schooling, which reduced the contact between children and this army of mandated reporters.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. They can send this child to better schools. She has repeatedly misused her power and privilege.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

Alexander Rubin , LCSW, is a clinical assistant professor based in field education at the University at Buffalo School of School of Social Work. Michael Lynch , LMSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. Todd Sage , Ph.D., Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 14, 2024

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Back to School Tips for Students in Out-of-Home Care School’s back in session and the transition can be tough for students in out-of-home care, caregivers and others that support them. To make the transition easier, here are a few helpful tips from the Division of Child Welfare’s Education Specialists.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 17, 2022

And sends their caseworker in [and says] I want you to go to the school, I want you to record the child, show up unannounced to the home, all things that are normally done during the course of action of any investigation? As he told Vice: But what if there's a county or a supervisor that [Agrees with Abbott]? Emphasis added.]

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

At Shelter Youth & Family Services, we honor Black History Month by shining a light on three pioneers who tirelessly fought for justice and equality in America, including in the child welfare system. His legacy inspires ongoing efforts for policy change that prioritize racial equity in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

It turns out, Paris Hilton knows more about "residential treatment facilities" than at least one self-proclaimed "child welfare scholar." By pretending that this industry has nothing to do with his sacred, beloved “child welfare” system. So how did Barth respond? It’s not a matter of ill-motivation. But Paris Hilton does.

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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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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This is especially true for children who have faced extreme circumstances such as abuse, neglect, or loss, often as part of child welfare systems. To address this challenge, Shelter is rolling out a new program to provide mental health counseling services at local schools throughout Chicagoland.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They urged the Supreme Court to “uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act’s constitutionality in all respects.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? s Child Welfare System Racist? There was the headline: “Is N.Y.’s Emphasis added.]

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