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A New York State “child welfare” agency can curb one family policing horror with the stroke of a pen. Do they have the guts?

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.)

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

She is wrong about domestic violence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.

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Child Welfare Update: February 2024

Child Welfare Monitor

But some lawyers that counsel parents in child protection cases are being told that attachment theory does not apply to Black children. The paper calls attachment theory a “tool to justify the separation of families” and a manifestation of “racism in psychology.” New Mexico: $5.5 And already has, I would think!)

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● Tearing apart families because of foster-care panic is common; admitting that’s why you’re doing it is not. But this story from WitnessLA includes the case of a Los Angeles mother who was investigated by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but initially allowed to keep her children.