University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

After my MSW, my goal is to work in the criminal justice system, practicing social work in a juvenile detention center. I have always been passionate about criminal justice reform and lowering our country’s recidivism rate through rehabilitative practices. Charlotte M. Kinlock Endowment Fund in Social Work.

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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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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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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

JUNE 22, 2022

Even the minimal due process protections in criminal justice are effectively null and void in “child welfare.” The key to the harm that family policing – a more accurate term than “child welfare” -- does to children is the enormous power of the family police.

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Beyond Advocacy

JANUARY 5, 2024

It had been the subject of her dissertation titled In the Best Interest of the Family: The Outcomes of Children in Foster Care with an Incarcerated Parent and the Adverse Implications of the Adoptions and Safe Families Act. Angelique Day, her former professor at Wayne State University.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

It was tried first in criminal justice – and proven to be racially biased. 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. It amounts to computerized racial profiling. Anthony Avalos. Noah Cuatro.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

In no place in the American criminal-justice system, he reportedly testified, would it be considered either ethically or legally permissible to keep children from their parents for punitive purposes after their legal process is completed. But only because family policing is part of the civil, not criminal legal system.

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