Disability Foster Care Social Services 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 16, 2023
The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in foster care. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 12, 2023
● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 29, 2023
. ● Also in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s highly-touted predictive analytics family policing algorithm reportedly is under investigation for bias against the disabled. Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan.
Community Care
JUNE 19, 2024
The recipients included a past and present principal social worker (PSW), the co-founder of the secure base model of therapeutic caregiving and a retired practitioner who used to support Holocaust survivors. Meanwhile, a retired social worker who worked to support Holocaust survivors was given a British Empire Medal (BEM).
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2024
From The Conversation : An exploration of another group that faces discrimination in the family policing system: the disabled. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to stop county family police agencies from stealing foster youth’s Social Security survivor benefits. But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A
Shelter, Inc
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
For example, in the American population of children, African Americans make up 15%, but they represent 33% of foster care children. Youth who identify as LGBTQ represent over 30% of those in foster care , compared with the 11.2% of children’s national population. Shelter’s executive director Carina H.
Community Care
MARCH 15, 2023
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today. This includes an estimated 2.5m who are economically inactive due to long-term sickness.
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