Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Reed explained the Indiana Family Preservation Services (IFPS) model requires that “concrete support be provided to families when not doing so would result in children having to come into foster care.” There is something strange about this example.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in foster care. This story from The Press-Enterprise in Riverside describes a case in California in which that happened – and then the children faced horrific abuse in a foster home overseen by a private agency. ●

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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. Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care.

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yolanda has also worked for the Foster Care & Adoptive Services Division where she provided oversight and support to foster parents, conducted training for kinship providers, facilitated support groups, licensed kinship foster homes and relicensed foster homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

And then there are the times when the foster child doesn’t live long enough to be reunified. In criminal justice cases that involve the death penalty, the accused is entitled to a lawyer. Here’s a case in point. ● Reason has an update on one such case in Arizona. ● The accused also is entitled to a lawyer for an appeal.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

It would never be tolerated in a story about criminal justice. A question for any journalists reading this: Suppose you were working on a story about the criminal justice system, and a prosecutor said: “ By definition , anyone in jail is a criminal – they’re rapists and torturers and all sorts of other crooks.”

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