NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Once again the suffering of poor people will enrich some child welfare establishment group or other. 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. .

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. For example, in the American population of children, African Americans make up 15%, but they represent 33% of foster care children. of children’s national population.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The latest McLawsuit reinforces ugly stereotypes about who loses children to foster care. ● s childhood had the hallmarks of trauma and instability that DCFS is accustomed to seeing in children entering foster care, including early childhood abuse and neglect, family violence, frequent moves, and unstable placements.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As Kathleen Creamer put it in this story from The Imprint “No one has done more than Marty to move this field towards justice — even when no one seemed to care about justice.” ? California becomes the latest state to curb the practice of making parents pay ransom to get their kids back from foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

From the story: The Hackneys, who have developmental disabilities, are struggling to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital when she refused to eat could be seen as so neglectful that she’d need to be taken from her home. Justice Department is asking the same question. … The New York Times also has a story. ● Here’s the audio.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

● Want to see how easy it is for the foster care system to become the ultimate middle-class entitlement – step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own? All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled.

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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. ● A member of the Seattle Times editorial board has made a discovery : Turns out, one of the best ways to shrink foster care rolls is neither parent therapy nor drug treatment, but something much more concrete: housing.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But, particularly when it comes to substance use, some of these courts exist where so much of the child welfare establishment does, at the intersection of ignorance and arrogance. DOJ has issued a letter ruling that when judges ban such treatment they are violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 20, 2022

According to a story about the study in The Hill : States with more generous SNAP policies — and therefore more program participants — had fewer children involved in Child Protective Services (CPS) and foster care, according to the 14-year nationwide survey, published in JAMA Network Open on Wednesday. The Wausau (Wis.)

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● There is no innovation, no best practice and no good turn of phrase that the family policing establishment won’t try to co-opt for its own ends.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

As the research summarized in NCCPR’s new Issue Paper makes clear, this has backfired – creating a massive child welfare surveillance state that scares families away from seeking help, overloads the system with false reports, trivial cases and poverty cases, and leaves workers even less time to find the few children in real danger.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

They were afraid of social services,” a parent with disabilities (one of the groups most vulnerable to family policing), told The Colorado Sun. With the Indian Child Welfare Act facing a challenge before the U.S. ● “When my kids were growing up, they weren’t afraid of the bogeyman.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

That’s because it’s meant specifically for those who have read a study concocted by a who’s who of family policing’s “caucus of denial” – those who claim that, somehow, child welfare is magically immune from the racism that infects every other aspect of American life. Therefore “child welfare” isn’t racist. out Drake et al.’s

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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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

MARCH 15, 2023

But I should explain at the top why this commentary is on a blog about the “child welfare” system. AFA’s members include some of the most strident supporters of tearing apart more families and some of those deepest in denial about racism in child welfare. She also condemned the Indian Child Welfare Act. They also include Prof.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Jacque started her career working with developmentally disabled children, youth and adults. Throughout her years with the department, she went on to work with youth in residential facilities, families involved in child welfare, foster parents, and children and youth in foster care before moving on to supervisory and administrative roles.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

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 Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. The phrase is an invitation to inflict the whims and prejudices of a white middle-class “child welfare” establishment on families that are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite. That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Attention child welfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world. In the past, this event was essentially a garden party for the child welfare establishment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That’s why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case. Record numbers of children are trapped in foster care in Maine. ● WABE Public Radio in Atlanta has published and broadcast a stunning story.

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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.” Let’s start with safety. That failure should surprise no one.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from foster care. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled. Now the family is suing. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Even when a child isn’t taken, the trauma inflicted by the child welfare surveillance state is huge. “In Although it doesn’t get as much attention as the other populations targeted by family policing, children of disabled parents also are more likely to be forced into foster care. They tried to shut out opponents like J.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Twenty years ago, Penn Law Professor (and NCCPR Board Member) Dorothy Roberts changed the landscape of “child welfare” when she literally wrote the book on racial bias in family policing: Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. The extent to which even the mainstream is beginning to understand what Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A Some even are celebrated.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

When even Colorado’s child welfare “ombudsman” – whose many failings are discussed in NCCPR’s Colorado report – says a county family police agency is biased and the state’s investigation amounts to a whitewash, then you know the agency is biased and the state investigation is a whitewash.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A case planner living with regrets that he failed to avoid a family separation through foster care. These rare, firsthand stories from the frontlines of the child welfare system are not often shared with the public. A social worker who doesn’t want to report kids in dirty clothes to CPS.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. The Family Justice Law Center “will use affirmative litigation to seek justice for families mistreated by the child welfare system. The Biden Administration is proposing some significant changes – for the better – in child welfare finance.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

● When the miracle cure turns out to be snake oil: There’s still another problem with Pittsburgh's predictive analytics “child welfare” algorithm. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into whether the algorithm discriminates against families in which a parent is disabled. ● I have some additional context here. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

But we have to have our eyes open to the potential of this model.” -- Rhema Vaithianathan, co-designer of child welfare “predictive analytics” algorithms, discussing the idea of assessing children’s risk of abuse – while they’re still in the womb. Department of Justice is investigating whether AFST is biased against the disabled.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Time is running out to submit comments to the Federal Register regarding Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments that representative payees receive for children and youth in foster care. The money is used to reimburse states for the cost of foster care, a practice restricted by federal law.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. Thats why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Also in New York City, The 74 reports, Across the nation’s largest [school] district, parents of students with disabilities who speak up on behalf of their children say they are being charged with allegations of child abuse or neglect — a tactic advocates say schools use to intimidate parents and coerce them into dropping their concerns.

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