NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

They think they’re going to be working with families, helping families to engage in services, to be self-sufficient, to move on to higher education,” Everett said. The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in foster care. And, in fact, Toscano tried.

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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. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? She is dangerously wrong.

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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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KVC

JUNE 16, 2022

One report revealed that this support and acceptance is associated with greater self-esteem, social support, general health status, less depression, less substance abuse and less suicidal ideation and behaviors among LGBTQIA+ youth. Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

If you take money from a federal program meant to help poor people become self-sufficient and spend it instead on investigating those families when their poverty is confused with neglect – and on paying middle-class foster parents – what do you call it? Yes, family policing agencies really do this.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

I plan to pursue a career in social justice which includes advocating and counseling young girls and women who have experienced injustices and trauma. My goal one day is to travel to different countries to support these women with counseling and proper education, and through this, hopefully, to write a book based on my experiences.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in foster care. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. That makes the computer-generated risk score more like a self-fulfilling prophecy than an actual prediction. Anthony Avalos. Gabriel Fernandez. Noah Cuatro.

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