Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. Confidentiality: Maintaining strict confidentiality is essential. They keep their promises and follow through on commitments.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 30, 2023

A 12-year-old Native Alaskan girl in foster care says she wants to commit suicide. But this time a judge was so outraged that he refused to let the agency hide its incompetence behind confidentiality. I have a blog post about it. --A As the Anchorage Daily News reports that is exactly what Alaska’s family police agency did.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

The referral will do no good, of course, because, though false reports are illegal in Texas, anyone can evade the law by making the call anonymously, something that won’t change until anonymous reporting is replaced with confidential reporting. This case has significant implications well beyond Pittsburgh.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

For those on it, it is alleged, this state will rely on a network of informers to plunder confidential records and spy on any mother they deem high risk. Her confidential medical records were obtained and read by strangers without her knowledge. One state allegedly maintains a secret docket of pregnant women. knowledge.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

I had taken the training several times in the past–first for my work as a social worker with CFSA and later as a mentor to a foster youth. I had my first experience with the updated training last month as part of my preparation to serve as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a child in foster care.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Self-harm Welfare 188

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 30, 2023

A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting has passed the Texas Legislature. I have written often about how the entire debate over what to do about child welfare has been poisoned by “health terrorism,” the misrepresentation of the true nature and scope of a problem in the name of “raising awareness.” Greg Abbott.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The Tribune is still pushing the Big Lie of American “child welfare” – the idea that any bill that protects children from being traumatized by the family police and forced into the hellscape of Texas foster care is a “parents’ rights” bill that supposedly comes at the expense of child safety.

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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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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Schools 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 18, 2023

The story also quoted a state legislator opposed to a new Texas law that, in most cases, replaces anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting. But even if you believe the police version, this case was cause to find the family housing – not to throw the four year old into kinship foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Remember the children who were torn from their parents and thrown into foster care because the parents committed the crime of Driving While Black? They should do what Texas did and largely replace it with confidential reporting, in which the accused still doesn’t know the name of the accuser, but the family police do. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We have forced millions into foster care where the rate of abuse is, in fact, vastly higher than in the general population and, independent studies show , vastly higher than agencies admit in official figures. She complains about kinship foster care in part because relatives “live on the economic margins” [p.157]

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Child Welfare Domestic Violence Adoption Foster Care 104

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

The bill also curbs the abuse of "hidden foster care" - a practice Texas uses at what may be the highest rate in the country. Also in Texas: ● The governor signed the law described here , which partially replaces anonymous child abuse reporting with confidential reporting. That’s a full Miranda.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Even these two excellent stories leave two key questions unanswered - as almost always happens when reporters write about family policing in New York Brooklyn Defender Services has filed a lawsuit against the New York City family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, on behalf of a family that has been subjected to repeated, traumatic (..)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Tennessee Legislature is considering an important change for the better in child welfare law: Replacing anonymous reporting to the state’s child abuse hotline with confidential reporting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. For those on it, it is alleged, this state will rely on a network of informers to plunder confidential records and spy on any mother they deem high risk.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. WFTS-TV’s story includes comment from NCCPR. ● Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

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 Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) Two months later he was dead.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

So the only real answer is to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting – as Texas has done , though too late to prevent a tragedy. --All All the caller – whoever it was – had to say to trigger an investigation was that the woman smoked marijuana in front of her child – even though marijuana is legal in New Jersey.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Not cant tell you the confidentiality laws family police agencies hide behind generally are there because the agencies want them there so they can hide their failings. Otherwise, its just foster care by another name. The same kind of wrongful removal was the focus of this story from WBTV and The Assembly.

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