Social Work Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Aging Out of Foster Care Every year, more than 20,000 young adults age out of the foster care system. They are between the ages of 18 and 21, some having chosen to voluntarily remain in care after 18.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Other Behavioral Issues Adopted children, whether from birth parents or the foster care system, may exhibit behavioral issues as they adjust to their new family dynamics.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Among those who understand this are the former director of the federal Children’s Bureau, Jerry Milner, and his Special Assistant, David Kelly.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

New resource ● While we continue to wait for the federal government to put out the annual AFCARS report, its official foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022, The Imprint has released its own survey , covering the year ending March 31, 2023. The Imprint survey does ask some questions AFCARS doesn’t.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Although it’s not directly about child welfare, NPR has an important story about recovery from substance use disorder. Officially, The Imprint reports, it’s called “host families” but, as NCCPR has said since this program began, a better term is sugar-frosted foster care. ?

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The Guardian

JUNE 26, 2022

Report suggests half of all foster carers are looking after a child with complex needs Foster care in Britain is facing a “mental health crisis” because the government is failing to meet the needs of mentally ill children in care. Continue reading.

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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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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In her 2009 book, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare , Dorothy Roberts drew attention to the disproportional representation of Black children in foster care and child welfare in general and helped make “racial disproportionality” a buzzword in the child welfare world.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

I am completing my field education at Natchaug Hospital in an outpatient program for older adults experiencing mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders. My passion is to advocate for underserved and monolingual Latinx populations, undocumented individuals, and children involved in the mental health or foster care system.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed.

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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

MARCH 17, 2025

So the head of the industrys trade association, Becky Miller Updike, told a Colorado legislative committee: Were seeing suicidal, homicidal 6-year-olds and they do not belong in foster care. They absolutely do belong in foster care or, far better, in their own homes. Later she changed the age to 5.)

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Title IV-E agencies are tribes and state agencies that utilize Title IV-E funds to provide foster care service. Research indicates that children have better outcomes, including placement stability and reduced occurrence of mental health disorders, when placed with kinship providers. [3] Key components of the rule are below.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in foster care on any given day -- is even worse. She said no.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Parents in such circumstances are often young with past experiences in foster care or the juvenile justice system. They may have recently been deployed from the military and struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 9, 2023

A little girl in foster care whispers to her mother during a “supervised visit”: ‘Mommy, I’m scared. She says, ‘Please don’t make us go back to this foster home. ● We begin with a quote from an extraordinary eight-month investigation by WOUB Public Media in Athens Ohio. Please Mommy, don’t make us go back there.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ruchi Fitzgerald, a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s Legislative Advocacy Committee, explains the enormous harm done by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to children of mothers with substance use disorder – by driving those mothers away from help. ? The police asked news media to alert readers and viewers.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The expanded KVC Missouri team will serve thousands of families each year, offering preventative family strengthening services, foster care , children’s mental health treatment, educational academies, and other services from 20 locations including Kansas City, St. We can truly transform the face of foster care and mental health.”

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KVC

APRIL 7, 2021

When children suffer abuse or maltreatment within their families, they are more likely to experience mood disorders, do poorly in school, and even commit suicide. KVC Health Systems has a long history of strengthening families, developing parenting skills and equipping families to prevent the need for foster care.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 3, 2024

The research presented by the SSW community comprises a variety of topics, including foster care, LGBTQIA+ youth, substance abuse treatment, mindfulness-based intervention, and gender-affirming care, among many others.

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All For Kids

MARCH 12, 2025

Other studies show that young women with healthy relationships with their fathers were less likely to become clinically depressed or anxious, develop eating disorders, body dysmorphia, or be dissatisfied with their appearance or body weight. We all have a role in ensuring every child in our nation is loved, safe, nurtured, and cared for.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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, it’s also safer. That may help explain how a tragedy like this death in foster care could occur. ● In this blog post, I suggest a better idea.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

I treat far more complications from untreated diabetes in the NICU than I do from opioid use disorder." Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) said Patrick. "I Two months later he was dead.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

On August 24, 2024, the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) proudly announced in a press statement that it had reduced the number of children in out-of-home care by nearly half since 2018. Specifically, the number of children in foster care had fallen from 9,171 in 2018 to 4,971 as of August 14, 2024.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

A mother’s injuries lead to prescriptions for opioid painkillers which lead to a substance use disorder. In Vermont 93% of the time , when children are thrown into foster care their parents are not even accused of physical or sexual abuse. Multiple studies find abuse in one-quarter to one-third of family foster homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Instead, according to WRTV in Indianapolis Bryant relied on a feeding tube and [her mother, Celena] Conkright has disorders, including ADHD and ADD. Conkright said DCS removed Bryant from her care two months after she was born.

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