NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 7, 2023

Robert Latham, Associate Director of the Children & Youth Law Clinic at the University of Miami linked to it on his excellent blog. 28 – The percentage of Hispanic children in Maine who will be forced into foster care at some point during their childhoods. I first learned about the study when Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

The most offensive part is how the story attempts to ignore those who are most vulnerable to this kind of abuse: Public health officials first grew concerned about the problem of multiple medication use, or polypharmacy, a decade ago, when it emerged among young people in foster care and low-income settings.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan School of Law explains, what children need is relational permanence. Children need to be able to stay connected to everyone who loves them, whether they can care for them or not. But as Prof.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 3, 2025

Programs include emergency housing, transitional living, foster care, home visiting, and clinical support services. Shelter is the only agency in Illinois to provide comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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Michigan Social Work

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Clinical Associate Professor Daicia Price has been named the School’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Program Director. Previously, she was the program’s co-director. As director, Price will lead the rollout and implementation of the DEI 2.0 Price joined the School faculty in 2016.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

Renny Arensberg, Executive Vice President of Employee Engagement, has led this initiative by partnering with a team of internal Engagement Champions as well as a broad KVC Experience Team consisting of the leaders of Human Resources; Marketing & Communications; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + Belonging; and Clinical Best Practices.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Aging Out of Foster Care Every year, more than 20,000 young adults age out of the foster care system. They are between the ages of 18 and 21, some having chosen to voluntarily remain in care after 18.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sarah Katz, director of the Family Law Litigation Clinic at Temple University, in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “A federal law has been destroying families for 25 years. A parent may be sentenced to a relatively short time in prison – but, because of ASFA, for their children it can lead to a life sentence of separation from parents they love.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Because that’s what the adverse childhood experience of a child abuse investigation is really all about (except, of course, the toxic environment would be foster care, not a carcinogen factory). If you score too high on the ACEs questionnaire, and your doctor decides that’s reason to call the hotline that’s exactly what could happen.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

Programs include emergency housing, transitional living, foster care, home visiting and clinical support services. Shelter Inc. is the only agency in Illinois to provide comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Learn more at www.shelter-inc.org. The post Shelter, Inc.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Scherlong, LCSW-R, CHHC, SEP, PTR/CJT-CM is a licensed clinical social worker and the current president of the IFBPT. licensed clinical social worker and Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Florida State University College of Social Work, has been involved in the practice, research, and teaching of poetry therapy for over 50 years.

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

Another retired social worker to receive a BEM was Rebecca Chambers, who worked for over 30 years in charity Barnardo’s fostering service. She said she “loved” her job, particularly the opportunity to do direct work with children in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

This has resulted in a fixation on clinical services and proprietary models rather than proactive family support. Similarly, writing in Slate about the Netflix documentary Take Care of Maya , Dr. Services reign supreme in the industry, and providers of them have an undue impact on policymaking nationwide.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. Writing in The Imprint , Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The lawsuit was filed by the Family Justice Law Center, the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private firms. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

MartinGuggenheim, who founded the nation’s first family defense clinic at New York University School of Law (and who also is president of NCCPR). ? This year the American Bar Association annual conference of family defense attorneys was, of course, an online event.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

With aspirations of receiving my LCSW following my degree, the opportunities I was able to have in this placement allow for me to have a better overall understanding of the importance of clinical work. My goal for my final year is to do a clinical internship working with children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sarah Katz, Director of the Family Law Litigation Clinic at Temple University, writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer that " A federal law has beendestroying families for 25 years. And see also this story in The Imprint. ? A key step toward transforming "child welfare" involves a federal law that will be 25 years old on Saturday.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Robert Latham, associate director of the University of Miami School of Law Children and Youth Law Clinic. Ron DeSantis and the administration of former Governor Rick Scott skewed financial incentives for the “CBCs” toward holding more children in foster care and against trying to keep families together.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience. It’s called National Adoption Day.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 17, 2024

With recognition from grantors on our work, we were thrilled to receive the first community impact grant from Endeavor Health and a $273,000 behavioral health initiative grant from Cook County to expand our clinical department. The expansion of this program will provide essential services to children and families in underserved Cook County.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Considering that roughly 50,000 children were in New York City foster care every year a generation ago, this cumulative burden alone is severe. It certainly had a negative effect on the children.” Added Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

As one such commenter put it: As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I wish news organizations such as Wapo would be more clear with using terms such as “social worker.” She did it -- three times -- when The New York Times exposed foster care as “the new ‘Jane Crow’.” Social workers would never do something like that!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism. But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care. So I reprinted that part, in full.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience. It’s called National Adoption Day.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience. It’s called National Adoption Day.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience. It’s called National Adoption Day.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The expanded KVC Missouri team will serve thousands of families each year, offering preventative family strengthening services, foster care , children’s mental health treatment, educational academies, and other services from 20 locations including Kansas City, St. We can truly transform the face of foster care and mental health.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The school has its own hair salon, clothing center and 24-hour health clinic with staff pediatricians. All children need unconditional love – children who have been in or near the clutches of the foster care system probably need it most. No wonder at least two commenters on the Times story aptly called it “Hogwarts.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Robert Latham, associate director at the Children & Youth Law Clinic of the University of Miami Law School, who wrote this on his excellent Blog: And lest you think this law has no teeth, the law prevents admission of any statement made by a parent without the notice being given. So we turn for analysis to Prof. That’s a full Miranda.

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All For Kids

MARCH 12, 2025

Other studies show that young women with healthy relationships with their fathers were less likely to become clinically depressed or anxious, develop eating disorders, body dysmorphia, or be dissatisfied with their appearance or body weight. We all have a role in ensuring every child in our nation is loved, safe, nurtured, and cared for.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Harvard Law School now has a family defense clinic ! And finally: two items about family defense: ● The Imprint interviews Tehra Coles , the new director of New York’s Center for Family Representation. ● And, what do you know?

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