NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2025

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. That would open up lots of spaces in family foster homes, so no child would need to be institutionalized anywhere, let alone parked in a shelter.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog CISU Offers a New Resource for Advancing Equity in Human Services The Colorado Implementation Science Unit (CISU) supports a variety of partners including cross-agency teams, community organizations, and individuals all of whom have voiced interest in developing culturally responsive services and practices.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents. Anybody see the problem here yet?

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. Yet, study after study show child abuse and neglect is lower in Black families than white families. When we do that, we will have made huge strides toward making the child welfare system fair for all.

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Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Gavin Peterson was failed by the agency that was meant to protect him, A few children suffering similar torture have been lucky enough to escape to safety, like the boy who escaped from the home of parenting youtuber Ruby Franke and saved himself and his sister from likely death.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

MSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. LCSW, is a tech consultant for universities, social work departments, and social work agencies.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog DCW Updates for National Adoption Month 2024 By Shelia Dalton, Adoption Program and ICAMA Administrator November is National Adoption Month and this year’s national theme is Honoring Youth: Strengthening Pathways for Lasting Bonds.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Both require case management, but instead of the cost of room and board for foster youth, providing in-home services usually involve referring parents to mental health and drug treatment services often funded by Medicaid or paying for parenting support programs that cost less than foster care. (Of percent of the national total.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are two very important things to know about the process by which a child welfare agency removes a child from a parent and places that child with some other kinship caregiver. And that assumes the child will even come home. Kinship foster care cushions the blow, but the harm of removal is still present.

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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 To get this kind of recognition is very gratifying.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 8, 2025

New York law requires local departments of social services to investigate all fatalities from maltreatment. The states Office of Children and Family Services is required to review each local fatality investigation and issue its own report within six months of the local investigation.

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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. A founder of the upEND Movement, Prof. Then CWLA refused to publish it. You can read it here.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Haaland, the case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act is scheduled to begin TODAY (Nov. Another post discusses two stories about “shortages” in Massachusetts “child welfare.” ? Oral argument before the Supreme Court in Brackeen v. 9) at 10:00 am ET. You can listen to the arguments live here. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

Only in a system as morally bankrupt as “child welfare” could it be considered acceptable to make children pay an allowance to their substitute parents. It’s also interesting to see where the money DHS steals from foster children is going: It’s used to pay their foster parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

They were afraid of social services,” a parent with disabilities (one of the groups most vulnerable to family policing), told The Colorado Sun. The comment is part of an in-depth examination of mandatory child abuse reporting laws in Colorado – which are pretty much like the laws everywhere else.

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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. ? And always: New York City has one of the least awful family policing systems in America.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

am proud to serve on a special committee of the Philadelphia City Council examining the child welfare system in that city. One of our recommendations is to abolish mandatory child abuse reporting – something that would be in line with decades of research showing that mandatory reporting backfires.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

It is estimated, for example, that turnover rates for caseworkers in child welfare averaged 30% nationally before the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, researchers in 2005 estimated the rate of burnout among social workers to be nearly 40% with a lifetime rate of 75%. Journal of Social Service Research.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

North Carolina social worker Jocelyn Williams, MSW, learned about the importance of self-care when she took a high-pressure position at the Department of Social Services. That experience prompted her to write a book to help other social workers. A child welfare social worker meets with her clients.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This article will explore common questions, facts, and figures about this tragic national epidemic, including how education empowers individuals and ways to get involved locally and nationally in the fight against child abuse. What Is Child Abuse Prevention?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine!

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Last week, Virginia’s Director of Social Services, Danny Avula, gave a presentation to the state Commission on Youth.

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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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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. Stephenson and KVC have been on the forefront of child welfare best practices including creating trauma-informed care, reducing residential care of children, and helping children and teens grow up in families through evidence-based family strengthening and mental health services.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 20, 2024

Child Welfare Social Worker vs. Social Services Specialist III) Organization Type: (Government, Non-profit, For-profit, Outside social services) Setting: (School, Clinic, Hospital, etc.) Job Information: Descriptive Job Title: (e.g.,

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

The Compton Foundation Centennial Professor of Social Work for the Prevention of Children and Youth Problems, she served on the faculty of the Columbia University School of Social Work —where she received her Ph.D.—from Kamerman was my professor during my doctoral studies at Columbia University School of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

So heres the first question of a two-question pop quiz: The next few paragraphs are from a news story about the lawsuit and if anything illustrates why family police agency is a more accurate term than child welfare agency, its these next few paragraphs. in which the [child welfare agency] citing concerns about A.V.s

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All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2025

Case management services help families navigate complex systems like healthcare, housing, and social services, while referral services connect them with community resources like legal aid, employment services, and childcare. Reduced involvement with the child welfare system.

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

As the Human Rights Campaign explains, “Public child welfare agencies are government entities that provide a safety net for families. Leslie began her career at Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles overseeing the emergency shelter and coordinating community services. She has a passion for working with under-tapped populations.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges. Child Welfare 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.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 16, 2023

Direct practice involves working with individuals or families to address their specific needs, such as providing counselling or therapy services. The administrative system focuses on developing policies and procedures related to social service delivery. What Is Systemic Theory in Social Work? Who created systemic theory?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As noted in yesterday’s post, about Putnam-Hornstein’s work in California, the California Department of Social Services declared that The Department believes that “universal-level risk stratification” is unethical and has no intention to use it now or in the future.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

She tells us, in effect: Well yes, the kids could remain home but only with lots of “social services” and “monitoring” – in other words, constant, onerous surveillance and pointless hoops to jump through.

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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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