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Power, privilege, and passing judgment in “child welfare”: The Massachusetts “Child Advocate” gets it wrong again

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. Maria Mossaides is a woman of enormous power and privilege. What can we conclude from this?

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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

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 field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician.

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Colorado task force’s solution to stop children from running from residential treatment: Fence ‘em in & lock ‘em up!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. They were in psychiatric centers or jails.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 6, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

I treat far more complications from untreated diabetes in the NICU than I do from opioid use disorder." It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. said Patrick. "I Now check out the new twist, as reported by WBBM-TV in Chicago.

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NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending Oct. 29

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

While they are not the torture chambers of old, Lee Enterprises newspapers report that at least two of them allegedly are the scene of other forms of abuse – sexual assault and the misuse and overuse of psychiatric medication. ● Conkright said DCS removed Bryant from her care two months after she was born.