NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. There aren’t enough beds for little guys that need this level of care, and the child welfare system has to kind of figure out ‘how can we do the best with what we have?’”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I single these stories out not because they are exceptionally awful - there’s far worse out there - but precisely because they are so typical of the journalism of child welfare. So for some of the latter, some forms of counseling and/or parent education are helpful. In fact, a small number of parents are evil. A small number are sick.

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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.)

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

At the same time, we also have this huge growth in mutual aid projects … to a large degree able to take control of their own redistribution of wealth to some extent, and able to help their neighbors with everything from providing diapers, clothing and provisions like that to each other as well as services like counseling childcare, things like that.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This is especially true for children who have faced extreme circumstances such as abuse, neglect, or loss, often as part of child welfare systems. To address this challenge, Shelter is rolling out a new program to provide mental health counseling services at local schools throughout Chicagoland.

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Gary Direnfeld

JUNE 9, 2024

He worried for her welfare. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. He couldn’t meet the intense needs, the high emotions, the shifting moods. He felt trapped though.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are two very important things to know about the process by which a child welfare agency removes a child from a parent and places that child with some other kinship caregiver. Because of the one group it does benefit: The Virginia Department of Social Services and county child welfare agencies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? s Child Welfare System Racist? The second thing to note is that the story got a lot of things right.

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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 28, 2022

To add, there continues to be issues of drinking water for many Indigenous persons and child welfare still needs reform in most jurisdictions. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. My message to white supremacists, you get over it! Go back to your country of origin if anyone needs to go.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

The National Association of Counsel for Children agrees. Nobody in the Massachusetts child-welfare system wanted to take another potentially deadly risk involving the interstate compact. It’s been nurtured at every turn by the state’s foremost advocate for a take-the-child-and-run approach to “child welfare,” Maria Mossaides.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

She is currently a member of the DCYF Parental Advisory Group and is passionate about fixing what is broken in our child welfare system to keep Washington kids safe. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and daughter. You can follow her on X at @DCYFWAtch.

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Community Care

MARCH 24, 2025

It added that it was “inappropriate” for experts to be called to give fact-finding evidence of whether alienating behaviours had occurred, though it may be necessary to instruct a psychologist to help the court determine the welfare outcome for the child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

● Think you know all about the cases at the heart of the current challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act? And now, the new federal report tells us: Instead of the pandemic of child abuse predicted by child welfare establishment fearmongers and their media allies, child abuse went down. The Imprint has a summary.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Commission on Civil Rights is examining racism in the New York family policing system (a more accurate term than “child welfare” system). The New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. New York’s institutional providers of family defense prepared in-depth written testimony that is a report in itself. As I read it, I had to stop every few pages.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

.” -- Ann Haines Holy Eagle on what the Minnesota family police stole from her By now we’re all familiar with one odious practice of most family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies): They steal the Social Security benefits to which some foster children are entitled and keep the money for themselves.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Dorothy Roberts , who explains: “A promising trend that this lawsuit is part of is recognizing that enforcing parents’ constitutional rights is critical to an approach to child welfare that truly benefits children. NCCPR Board Members served as co-counsel for plaintiffs in both those suits.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) Scoppetta , both state and federal courts told New York family police agencies that no, you are not allowed to tear apart families just because a mother is, herself, a victim of domestic violence.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 20, 2024

Child Welfare Social Worker vs. Social Services Specialist III) Organization Type: (Government, Non-profit, For-profit, Outside social services) Setting: (School, Clinic, Hospital, etc.) My classes in social welfare policy help me navigate healthcare systems and advocate effectively for my patients’ needs.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

According to the Child Welfare Information Gateway, ‘prevention’ is defined as activities that stop an action or behavior or promote a positive one. What Is Child Abuse Prevention? All For Kids is the founding inspiration and one of several organizations sustaining the backbone of this program.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

The end of 2021 brought more outstanding reporting on various dark corners of the “child welfare” system. ? How about TANF as a child welfare slush fund. Now, even that bastion of the child welfare establishment JAMA Pediatrics has called b.s. ProPublica has an in-depth story on that one. ?

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Disrupting Stigma: How Understanding, Empathy, and Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Families Affect by Substance Use and Mental Disorders.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But in Los Angeles, The Imprint reports , when forced to jump through all sorts of other hoops first, they’ve actually had to pay for the hoops – in other words, these parents, almost all impoverished, had to pay for their own “counseling” “parent education” etc. A new California law may change that.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? Safety, permanency, well-being.” I am a lifelong tax-and-spend liberal and proud of it. But the family police cannot.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

And here’s part two , which explains why “creme" is to food what “permanency” is to child welfare: a fake substitute. ● Upon release, CPS required him to have his own apartment, job, bedrooms for each of my sisters, parenting classes, counseling, and monitored visits. It all boils down to $$$$$$ I have a blog post about it.

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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. Today the Department of Public Welfare is the Department of Transitional Assistance. One last thought about child welfare and opioids.

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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 31, 2024

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

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Why would he say we should improve defense counsel for families when more children are dying? In child welfare, we can’t speak truth to power until we speak truth to CASA. The most sacred cow in American child welfare harms the children it is intended to help.

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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ninety percent of youth in the child welfare system report having been exposed to at least one traumatic event in their life. This interactive training educates our professionals about the impact of trauma on the development and behavior of youth in the child welfare system. OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH.

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All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2025

FRC services vary by location but may include parent education, counseling, case management, referral services, and more. Counseling may also be available for individuals, couples, and families, addressing issues like mental health, domestic violence, and substance abuse. Reduced involvement with the child welfare system.

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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. You may also provide direct services, such as counselling or case management, to clients or their families.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

She was a prodigious child welfare scholar whose research focused on early childhood well-being in the United States and countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She was inducted into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) in 2010. from 1979 until her retirement.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

There are a wide range of job positions available in various settings, including healthcare, education, mental health, government agencies, private practice, counseling centers, research organisations and more. Counsellor/Therapist – In this role, social workers provide counselling and therapy to individuals and families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. At long last, it appears America’s racial justice reckoning might be starting to reach child welfare. ? We begin this week not just with one story but with an entire magazine.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Disrupting Stigma: How Understanding, Empathy, and Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Families Affect by Substance Use and Mental Disorders.

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