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They think they’re going to be working with families, helping families to engage in services, to be self-sufficient, to move on to higher education,” Everett said. It is a symptom of the culture of contempt for families and a lust for child removal that has characterized Massachusetts childwelfare for decades.
According to West Virginia Watch , Jonathan Pinson, a member of the state House of Delegates who also is a foster parent, declared: I cannot fathom losing my child to a hotel room. Again from the story: These kids are not the kids that foster parents are willing to take in, Bragg said. Thats the kids [who] are ending up in a hotel.
The biggest problem with the so-called “childwelfare” system is that it has nothing to do with the welfare of children. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) replaced welfare as we knew it. So she wasn’t home when a babysitter allegedly sexually abused her child.
A man practices self-care by taking time to relax in nature and listen to music. Self-care is important to social workers and in fact the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics included the importance of self-care when it was updated this year. A childwelfare social worker meets with her clients.
September is observed as recovering from illness concept, background SAMHSA defines recovery as a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives and strive to reach their full potential. Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery.
The end of 2021 brought more outstanding reporting on various dark corners of the “childwelfare” system. ? If you tear a child from a parent’s arms, then demand money to give the child back, what’s the right word for the payment? How about TANF as a childwelfare slush fund.
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. She’s even part of a group that rushed to defend a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor beloved by Tucker Carlson.
She’s condemned the Indian ChildWelfare Act and called for requiring every parent reapplying for “public benefits” (in other words, poor people) whose children are not otherwise seen by a mandated reporter to produce the child for a child abuse inspection - even when there is no allegation of abuse or neglect.
Or they might just call the child abuse hotline. Even if they know that can do enormous harm, they may feel obligated to do it because they are mandated reporters. Imagine anyone on the Left, let alone anyone prominent in a self-proclaimed “anti-racist organization” saying that “stop and frisk” policing is preventive, not surveillance.
That’s because it’s meant specifically for those who have read a study concocted by a who’s who of family policing’s “caucus of denial” – those who claim that, somehow, childwelfare is magically immune from the racism that infects every other aspect of American life. Therefore “childwelfare” isn’t racist.
We see the impact of that as bullies and those they bully are twice as likely to self-harm and experience suicidal behavior. A bully is someone that deliberately acts out verbally or physically in an aggressive manner towards others with the intent to cause harm, fear, or distress. Words can hurt. What Defines a Bully?
● Take a step back, see – and hear – how the family policing system really works in this report from NPR, featuring perspectives from JMAC for Families and NCCPR: ● You know how defenders of computerized racial profiling in family policing (more accurate terms than “predictive analytics” in “childwelfare”) defend their biased algorithms by a.
SAMHSA defines recovery as a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives and strive to reach their full potential. He recommends that we look at the opioid addiction pandemic through a harm-reduction lens, rather than a punitive one.
Educator : Social workers educate clients about resources, coping strategies, and life skills to enhance their well-being and self-sufficiency. ChildWelfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems.
So they experience feelings of fear, anger, abandonment, shame, embarrassment, and low self-esteem. He calls it " Commodified inequality: Racialized harm to children and families in theinjustice enterprise." In contrast, a status known as guardianship does not require such a trade-off.
Child Abuse Definition Child abuse refers to any act or omission by a caregiver that results in harm or potential harm to a childs physical, emotional, or psychological well-being. Physical abuse involves the intentional use of force that causes physical harm or injury to a child.
by Marie Cohen Recognizing implicit bias in mandated reporting training is a national focus for addressing racial inequity in childwelfare. The video introducing the section explains that implicit bias harms “families of color” in the childwelfare system, without providing any evidence of such harm.
Maine's first childwelfare 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. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? Unfortunately, Alberi’s approach is not unusual.
When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado childwelfare in September 2023, we included a section called Tapeworm in the System. If youre wondering why fencing also might be needed to keep dangers out it illustrates another reason why residential treatment is so harmful. And what, exactly, does that mean?
For more than half of all Black children, a child abuse investigation will be part of their childhoods. I also expressed the hope that we would see more stories about such families and more self-reflection within the system and in journalism. So far, it’s not looking good. I’m sure Davis went into this work for all the right reasons.
It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy. . ● There is no opportunity for any family to opt-out or deny the use of their personal data.
One report revealed that this support and acceptance is associated with greater self-esteem, social support, general health status, less depression, less substance abuse and less suicidal ideation and behaviors among LGBTQIA+ youth. Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.
Here are the most common types of child abuse: Emotional abuse: Mental or emotional abuse typically aims to impact a child’s well-being, self-esteem and self-worth. This can include name-calling, rejection, withholding affection, shaming, diminishing, emotional manipulation or threatening a child.
So when child protective services began operating at a whisper of its former self, where others saw danger, these women saw opportunity. “I But in the meantime, the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth has done all sorts of harm to children. Emphasis added] ?
Among the many perverse financial incentives in family policing is the emergence of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families a program intended to help families become self-sufficient as a childwelfare slush fund. ProPublica reported on it in 2021. The couple pleaded guilty on Jan.
This side of the childwelfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.
During the three-year pilot, there were few reports of physical abuse, neglect or imminent harm for program participants. This included five favorable effects on child safety based on parents’ self-reports of maltreatment, with no favorable effects on other measures of child safety.
Readers are invited to practice self-care while navigating this content and to consider reading the findings with a group to engage in collective reflection. Tyrone Howard et al, Beyond Blind Removal: Color Consciousness and Anti-Racism in Los Angeles County ChildWelfare.
● Dr. Sharon McDaniel, a pioneer in doing kinship foster care the right way, speaks out about the enormous harm of doing it the wrong way – through the subterfuge known as “hidden foster care.” And imagine if the price for not meeting the government spy’s standard for “well-being” were to have the child taken forever.
Self-proclaimed liberal Elizabeth Bartholet wanted to force every pregnant woman to admit a spy into her living room from pregnancy until the child was preschool age. Bartholet doesn’t say if women would have to self-report their pregnancies or if their doctors or maybe their neighbors would turn them in.)
A longtime "childwelfare" establishment apparatchik says the quiet part out loud Most of the time, the columns that longtime “childwelfare” establishment apparatchik Paul DiLorenzo, writes for The Imprint , are just dull regurgitations of establishment talking points. A judge has to approve everything we do.”
But treating the decline in foster care (the direct result of government actions) as a desirable outcome in itself can contribute to a disregard of actual childwelfare outcomes like safety and permanency. in determining whether removal is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm to the child due to child abuse or neglect.
Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. And here’s part two , which explains why “permanency” is to childwelfare as “creme" is to food: a fake substitute. ●
Speaking of the harm of institutionalization, the Concord Monitor continues its series on that states obscene rate of institutionalization with a look at desperate families who voluntarily send their children to faraway institutions because New Hampshire has nothing to offer. But it sure seems like a sin.
In an article about The False Gods of Social Change Kevin Campbell, Cormac Russell and Elizabeth Wendell write: In practice, service users receiving aid from the government and charities exchange freedoms of self-determination, choice, participation, and control for the promise of subsistence, not equity, health, or even dignity.
He co-authors a “news analysis” for the Los Angeles Times that sounds like a pitch by a company selling “predictive analytics” software for childwelfare. The post talked about Therolf’s profound discomfort with any suggestion that there is systemic racial bias in childwelfare. Second of two parts. Read part one here.
Bill Diamond Every state legislature has one: the lawmaker who rushes to “blast” the state or local “childwelfare” agency after a child “known to the system” dies. A brief recap For most of the past 25 years, Maine embraced a take-the-child-and-run approach to childwelfare. Some survivors disagree.
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