NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every family policing agency routinely violates federal law requiring “reasonable efforts” to keep families together instead of just rushing to throw the kids into foster care. In Maryland, they’re paying to house foster youth in hotels because, supposedly, there’s no other placement.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

At long last the federal government has released state and national foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022. The snapshot number of children in foster care on any given day, also declined, from 392,000 on Sept. When we curb needless foster care, children get safer!

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family. Diverse perspectives are key to our progress.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These figures correlate with the government’s children looked after statistics for March 2020, which showed that the proportion of children in foster care not with a relative or friend had decreased to 57% from 60% in 2018. Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s national director for social care, said the figures painted a “bleak picture”.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

Renny Arensberg, Executive Vice President of Employee Engagement, has led this initiative by partnering with a team of internal Engagement Champions as well as a broad KVC Experience Team consisting of the leaders of Human Resources; Marketing & Communications; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + Belonging; and Clinical Best Practices.

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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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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Matarese is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for LGBTQ+ Children and Youth in Foster Care, and the National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification funded by the Children’s Bureau.

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

have continued helping people with critical in-home family support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment and more. Jonathan & Katie Stahl and Bobbie & Corey Friedemann, foster families. Diverse perspectives are key to our progress.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A Moving Family Reunification Story After Foster Care. Ashley and Sean’s substance use challenges led to their children being removed from their home and put in foster care. Black Children Are Overrepresented in Foster Care: Here’s How We Can Address This Disparity. Read it now. Read it now.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 1, 2024

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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. Additionally, you may refer clients to other resources and professionals, including support groups and medical practitioners, based on their diverse needs.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2024

‘Care experienced people telling their stories in their own words’ Kirsty Capes, care experienced author and one of the contributors, said the book gave care leavers the opportunity to do something rare, to “tell their own stories in their own words”. Their diverse experiences are brought to life in this book.”

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All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2024

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Adopt Maddox, Pax & Zahara This high-profile couple, in addition to their biological children, adopted Maddox from Cambodia, Pax from Vietnam, and Zahara from Ethiopia, showcasing their commitment to children from diverse backgrounds.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

” Promoting greater diversity As he made clear in his inaugural speech as president , this includes promoting greater racial diversity at director level. In addition, seven areas are testing providing family support network packages to help extended families care for children and avoid them going into care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

There was the CASA chapter in Marin County, California, which fell apart when the state CASA association merely asked that they strive for more diversity among the volunteers. ? It would be one thing if this were just an isolated example of racial bias. But it’s not. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

There was the CASA chapter in Marin County, California, which fell apart when the state CASA association merely asked that they strive for more diversity among the volunteers. ? It would be one thing if this were just an isolated example of racial bias. But it’s not. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

There was the CASA chapter in Marin County, California, which fell apart when the state CASA association merely asked that they strive for more diversity among the volunteers. It would be one thing if this were just an isolated example of racial bias. But it’s not.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 9, 2023

The research presented by SSW covers a wide range of areas and our expertise, including child welfare, foster care, sexual and gender minority youth mental health, and substance use, among others. Presentation: Factors Associated with Child Welfare Diversion for Substance-Exposed Infants. Thursday, January 12.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Assessments were also generally of good quality for children subject to care proceedings, while most children in care were living locally in foster care thanks to a dedicated focus on bringing back those in out-of-area placements.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

With children in care, social workers completed creative and age-appropriate work that ensured children’s views were central to decision-making. With those in need, practice was culturally sensitive – in the context of Leicester’s very diverse population – and ensured further support and safety plans were well-informed by children’s views.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

Social work is not merely a profession; it is a profound calling that embraces the multifaceted nature of human existence, embracing the diversity of experiences and backgrounds that shape our world. This includes upholding the core values of social work, such as self-determination, integrity, and respect for diversity.

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All For Kids

JANUARY 5, 2025

Parents want to raise their children to be compassionate, caring, and empathetic, so showing them these values in action can be more effective than just explaining them. By exposing your child to diverse people, situations, age groups, and issues, they will be able to relate to others and be more accepting.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

I had taken the training several times in the past–first for my work as a social worker with CFSA and later as a mentor to a foster youth. I had my first experience with the updated training last month as part of my preparation to serve as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a child in foster care.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My passion is to advocate for underserved and monolingual Latinx populations, undocumented individuals, and children involved in the mental health or foster care system. As a child of immigrants from Jamaica and Guyana, I understand the importance of diversity, multiculturalism, and giving back to one's community.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

The report notes that these recommendations are not meant to apply to family foster homes not because the idea of fencing a foster home necessarily appalled them, but because of the diverse needs of children and youth in foster home placements and the large volume of foster homes located throughout the state.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Font and Putnam-Hornstein have been brought in by that other bastion of the child welfare establishment, Chapin Hall, to advise them on a study that amounts to a whitewash of abuse in foster care. T]hese diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are poisoning the scientific establishment and the medical establishment now.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

This story also is about the power of newsroom diversity, and the need for more of it. Kelley 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. And if you hit the Star ’s paywall, look for the questionnaire option.

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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. In Dayton, Ohio, a misdiagnosis of child abuse forced infants into foster care for nearly a year.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

An excellent story in The Imprint reveals that, after extensive consultation with an impressive and diverse group of people, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has pulled the plug. As far as I knew, the California algorithm was still in development. But that’s not a prediction, that’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We have forced millions into foster care where the rate of abuse is, in fact, vastly higher than in the general population and, independent studies show , vastly higher than agencies admit in official figures. She complains about kinship foster care in part because relatives “live on the economic margins” [p.157]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The foster/adoptive parents, who initially reported the child as missing, have been charged with murdering the child. Despite the pleas of relatives, Isabella’s siblings are still in foster care with strangers. We also know that abuse in foster care is widespread , and we know that agencies often turn a blind eye to such abuse.

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All For Kids

MARCH 28, 2024

Diversity & Inclusion: Adoption celebrates the diversity of families, embracing single parents, same-sex couples, and individuals facing infertility, creating homes filled with acceptance, understanding, and unconditional love.

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Shelter, Inc

JUNE 14, 2021

While in theory, the foster care system should provide the stable and nurturing care all children need. In reality, because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, a youth may be subjected to the same abuse and neglect from foster parents. Yet, some find living on the streets safer than in a family environment.

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Shelter, Inc

JUNE 15, 2022

Pride month is also a time to reflect on how much progress there is still to make for diversity, equity, and inclusion. One-third of kids in foster care identify as LGBTQ+.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 26, 2021

While in theory, the foster care system should provide the stable and nurturing care all children need. In reality, because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, a youth may be subjected to the same abuse and neglect from foster parents. Yet, some find living on the streets safer than in a family environment.

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