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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 25, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Expand Medicaid: Less “neglect.” Or, as bad or worse, it might go to an outfit like Chapin Hall (see the item below about whitewashing abuse in foster care). There are horrifying details about the sexual assault of two young teenagers in Texas foster care. . Increase SNAP benefits: Less “neglect.”

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From the people who brought you AFST: The most dangerous "child welfare" algorithm yet

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in foster care are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias.

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NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending Oct. 14, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Now he wants the Justice Department to investigate these chains for allegedly defrauding Medicaid and violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Imprint and The Hill have stories. Once again, though, Wyden is focusing on the fact that three of the chains are for-profit corporations. OK, I admit it.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long (2024 Edition)

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, its also safer. But the fearmongers will never give up their horror stories because horror stories are all theyve got. The Imprint and The Hill have stories.