Counseling Domestic Violence Welfare 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2023
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.)
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 31, 2024
New York’s family police agency is still harassing survivors of domestic violence and their children. In New York, it’s illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into foster care just because they “witnessed domestic violence” – typically a husband or boyfriend beating the child’s mother. Emphasis added.]
Shelter, Inc
OCTOBER 13, 2022
OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH. Ninety percent of youth in the child welfare system report having been exposed to at least one traumatic event in their life. Witnessing domestic violence is one such event, an adverse childhood experience (ACE) that can have a lifelong impact.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
To read the account on CR’s website you’d think their suit turned a dreadful, failing “child welfare” system into a shining success story. But just four years later, the Tennessee Department of Child Services, their family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) has opened a bunch of new ones.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
She was not accused of beating them or raping them or torturing them No, as happens so often in Massachusetts and across the country, the children were torn from Toscano because she was, herself, allegedly a victim of domestic violence at the hands of her husband. And, in fact, Toscano tried. This is not an aberration.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents. The story suggests counseling and pay raises for the workers.
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