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Challenging Handmaid’s Tale jurisprudence in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Now Mr. Bs lawyers, The Bronx Defenders, the Family Justice Law Center and the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic, are asking New Yorks highest court, the Court of Appeals, to take up the case and overturn the lower courts. So did a mid-level appeals court.

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“The machine has labeled you as high-risk”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The algorithm doesn’t tell investigators when to tear children from the arms of their families and consign them to foster care; that’s left to humans. Robyn Powell of the University of Oklahoma School of Law and Prof. Sarah Lorr, co-director of the Disability and Civil Rights Clinic at Brooklyn Law School.

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How Social Workers can Use Words to Heal

Social Work Blog

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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The NCCPR Index of Family Police Oppression

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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New York Times does the “oh-my-God-it’s-spreading-to-the-white-middle-class!!” story about overuse of psychiatric meds on kids

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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The horrifying ubiquity of the family police

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

That’s just one of the findings in the new study we highlighted in yesterday's post to this Blog (a study I first read about on the excellent blog written by Robert Latham, Associate Director of the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act. Yes, second highest.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 27, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● 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. I missed this one last month: Prof.