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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. Thus, the increase in referrals may well be a sign of increasing maltreatment.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Taking a child under those circumstances causes the child even more trauma than taking the child for other reasons – that’s one reason it’s illegal to do it in New York. According to the story, Toscano’s husband was also cited for substance abuse, according to DCF records she shared with the Globe.
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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. The stories blithely attribute West Virginia’s high rate of removal to the fact that “More than half entered the system because of a parent’s substance abuse.”
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.
Child Welfare Monitor
JULY 8, 2024
Supporters of the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), which passed in 2018, said that declining foster care counts would result from providing support to parents who needed help to address the problems (like substance abuse, mental illness and poor parenting skills) that led to their maltreatment of their children.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Under the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, states are supposed to make “active efforts” to keep families together, a higher standard than the “reasonable efforts” required un federal law (but almost universally ignored ) for other families. More substantive legislation already has been defeated.
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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