NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

According to CR: DCS has dramatically reduced its historical over-reliance on non-family institutional placements … The percentage of Tennessee children in foster care placed with families has risen and has been maintained at approximately 88 percent. A member of NCCPR’s Board of Directors was co-counsel for plaintiffs.)

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

Christina has been a licensed foster parent in the state of Washington for six years and has adopted one child from the foster care system. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years. by Christina Faucett I am honored to publish this essay from Christina Faucett.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

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. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The premise is that because of the “shortage,” children can’t see their parents while in foster care, and families don’t get the guidance they need to jump through all the hoops they must surmount to prove themselves worthy of getting their children back. The story suggests counseling and pay raises for the workers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. Parents who lose their children to foster care, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

. ● We’ve heard of one form of “ransom” in foster care – parents forced to pay part of the cost of foster care in order to get their kids back. Professor Martin Guggenheim, the father of family defense (and also President of NCCPR) was honored with a big award from the New York State Bar Association.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

. ● A member of the Seattle Times editorial board has made a discovery : Turns out, one of the best ways to shrink foster care rolls is neither parent therapy nor drug treatment, but something much more concrete: housing. This solution, to both homelessness and foster care sounds almost ridiculously obvious. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The study found that when COVID-19 forced the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, to step back and community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up, the trauma of needless investigation and foster care was significantly reduced, with no compromise of safety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Combine these two stories with earlier excellent work by the same reporters on family policing agencies diverting some foster youth’s Social Security payments to help run their bureaucracies and you see a pattern, discussed in this NCCPR blog post about foster care as a shakedown scheme.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.) Mostly that means interference that makes nothing better and sometimes makes things worse, as with their support for what should be called sugar-frosted foster care. That’s why a successful class-action lawsuit, Nicholson v. Scoppetta , curbed the practice in New York.

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KVC

JANUARY 11, 2024

While foster care can be a crucial safety net for children and families in challenging circumstances, we at KVC know how important it is to help families stay together. Foster care prevention and family preservation services help families remain intact, allowing children to grow and thrive! foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Would she call the suspicion “justifiable” were she, at this very moment, making sure the house was spotless in case of a surprise inspection from CPS – in between her mandatory “counseling” and “parent education” classes? Would she feel that way were she fighting to get her child out of foster care? Two trips to the E.R.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Sarah Font, who actually has suggested that “aging out” of foster care with no home at all is better for older foster youth than reunification or guardianship with a relative – because while family might offer love, aging out offers money. Consider the comments of Penn State Prof.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 13, 2023

If enacted, the bill would expand state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. We will also hear from Duane Price, a young man with experience in foster care whose life was enhanced by getting a car.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

That’s what they’ve done with the concept of “primary prevention” – turning it into another excuse to load families down with meaningless “counseling” and “parenting education.” Family policing systems have a way of co-opting and perverting good ideas.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Prosecuting attorneys regularly fail to provide discovery until the eve or day of trial, making it difficult, if not impossible, for defense counsel to advise parents about the potential risks and consequences of settlement, or to be prepared to move forward with trial.

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

An outside source, like an adoption counselor, can help you better grasp all that goes into the adoption process, and can teach you about the benefits of foster care, becoming a foster parent, and adoption. In addition, the cost of foster care adoption is typically significantly lower in this type of system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The essay is called “An abolitionist gets canned for upholding the values of social work.” ● And in CommonWealth Magazine , Michael Dsida, deputy chief counsel of the Children and Family Law Division at the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, writes about what’s really wrong with family policing in that state: Factoring in poverty, (..)

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Counsellor : They provide counselling and emotional support to individuals and families facing a wide range of challenges, including mental health issues, addiction, and crisis situations. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But whatever the reason, after years of marching in lockstep with the Miami Herald – ignoring wrongful removal and sometimes fomenting foster-care panic -- the Tampa Bay Times has discovered that maybe all those children don’t need to be in foster care after all!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”) And it encourages the use of “counseling” and “parent education” to deal with the “stress.” That way, the problem is more amenable to the kind of massive state intrusion they’ve favored for years.

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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Colin Gray was ordered to retrieve the other children, or they would be placed in foster care. There is no information from media reports about whether DCFS evaluated Colin Gray for his fitness to take care of his three children or to monitor their well-being in his care before closing the child welfare case.

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Children’s Home Society of Washington

MARCH 20, 2023

Given her passion for supporting children and families and her knowledge of CHSW from personal experience, Kris began her 21+ year career with the organization in 2002, working as a direct service staff member in the Therapeutic Foster Care Program.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

The new center is just another “counseling” and “parent education” program. They’re putting in monitors to stop the child abuse at Home of the Innocents – abuse exposed in this story from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. No such luck.

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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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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

Whether it involves providing counseling, facilitating community programs, or engaging in research and policy development, the multifaceted nature of social work ensures that each day brings new challenges and opportunities to effect meaningful change.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

The lawsuit was brought by the Vermont ACLU, along with Pregnancy Justice and two private firms, against the Vermont family police agency, a Vermont hospital, Copley, and a Vermont agency, Lund, that provided confidential pre-natal counseling to the mother (well she thought it was confidential). This is a bit odd since A.V.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship Fund This scholarship is awarded to a student currently conducting their field placement at the UConn Counseling & Mental Health Services. My passion is to advocate for underserved and monolingual Latinx populations, undocumented individuals, and children involved in the mental health or foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This post is adapted from a virtual presentation I gave last month to the Racial Justice Task Force of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Child and Family Law Division. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in foster care on any given day -- is even worse. Katz did something simple.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

She did it -- three times -- when The New York Times exposed foster care as “the new ‘Jane Crow’.” She wrote: I’m a licensed clinical social worker who spent my career in public child welfare, primarily providing foster care services. All this made “Jane Addams” very upset. there in order to investigate families.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Parents in such circumstances are often young with past experiences in foster care or the juvenile justice system. In many instances of child abuse, there are underlying issues such as domestic violence, substance abuse, financial instability, and housing insecurity.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Have a look: The only good news for the family police came from the fact that, apparently, only a minority of respondents agreed with the statement “Overall, the foster care system harms more than helps the children in its care.” But while Gallup reveals how many agreed with the statement, it doesn’t say how many disagreed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care. Legal experts say it is particularly rare for groups of parents, such as those in the Gould case, to seek systemic changes to the investigation and surveillance process, asserting their rights before a foster care removal.

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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. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

Her son was cared for by his grandmother – until the husband took the child by force and also made his way to the United States. The husband wound up in Massachusetts – and the boy, Ricardo, wound up in foster care – because the father was abusing him too. The National Association of Counsel for Children agrees.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Florida’s family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, has, in effect, confirmed the findings of a USA Today Network investigation that found DCF ignored widespread abuse in foster care. And once again, USA Today reporters trace the origins of the problem to the foster-care panic in Florida starting in 2014. (As

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