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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending May 30, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In Los Angeles, the family policing agency – which takes away children at one of the highest rates among big cities – is known as the Department of Children and Family Services. But, as the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition explains in a new report, DCFS Stands for Dividing and Conquering Families. That’s not unusual.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.