NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

New York’s family police agency is still harassing survivors of domestic violence and their children. In New York, it’s illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into foster care just because they “witnessed domestic violence” – typically a husband or boyfriend beating the child’s mother. Emphasis added.]

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Funding source: Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), U.S. Purpose: support a comprehensive approach to addressing abuse in later life, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, neglect, and exploitation toward people who are at least 50 years old. Department of Justice.

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Swhelper

MAY 1, 2018

The federal government spends an estimated $55 billion annually on dealing with the effects of childhood exposure to domestic violence, according to new research by social scientists at Case Western Reserve University. Government $55 Billion Each Year

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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH. Witnessing domestic violence is one such event, an adverse childhood experience (ACE) that can have a lifelong impact. Witnessing domestic violence is one such event, an adverse childhood experience (ACE) that can have a lifelong impact.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Among the worst things they do is tear children from the arms of parents – usually mothers – whose only crime is to, themselves, have survived domestic violence. It could exempt from mandatory reporting requirements any professional whose primary work is with domestic violence survivors.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Social Work Practice and Domestic Violence. Social Work Practice and Environmental Sustainability. Social Work Practice and Child Protection. Social Work Practice and Professional Self Care. Social Work Practice and Substance Abuse. Social Work Practice and Criminal Justice System. Emerging trends in Social Work Training and Practice.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

VAWA is a central way the Federal government responds to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. First signed into law in 1994, VAWA creates grant programs to provide services and housing to victims and survivors and training to improve the legal response to gender-based violence.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Supreme Court is whether returning a child who has been exposed to extreme domestic violence to their country of residence would result in more harm. Our brief highlighted clinical research that shows children exposed to domestic violence face a significant risk of suffering physical, psychological and developmental issues.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 20, 2022

It can result from experiencing abuse or neglect, ongoing domestic violence, repeated witnessing of violence or abuse, torture, or kidnapping. Complex PTSD results from the experience of prolonged, interpersonal traumatic events, often occurring early in life.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Domestic violence This recommendation is a fine example of how MCWAP understands concepts Alberi can’t seem to grasp: In this case the issue is the enormous harm done to children when they are taken from parents, usually mothers, accused of “failure to protect” their children from “witnessing domestic violence.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Consideration of possible exemptions for professionals working with legal representation teams and/or victims of domestic violence or sexual violence. Survivors of domestic violence are among those most adversely affected by mandatory reporting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

Cara, who asked to keep her last name private, said she had already been in touch with a domestic violence organization about her ex. In Cara’s case, she had sought help from a domestic violence organization – and they’re the ones who called DCF. After the drinking incident, she said, that organization called [DCF]. “I

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Like the psychiatrist who implied that Mom was to blame for being a victim of domestic violence. (He All of the children were taken away. Two of them were placed with the abusive father. And there is so much more: ? He didn’t literally say “she was asking for it” but he came awfully close.)

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is a proud partner of White Ribbon VA , a national call to action to eliminate sexual harassment, sexual assault, and domestic violence across the Department of Veterans Affairs. NASW will take part in White Ribbon Day in Congress on December 1, at 10:30 a.m.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Back to Blogs SHARE: Share this… More Posts Community Blog November Proclaimed Homeless Youth Awareness and Action Month Read the Article Community Blog October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month Read the Article Community Blog Adams County Celebrates Kinship Care Month Read the Article Community Blog Governor Polis proclaims September as Kinship (..)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Western New England Law Review has a superb summary of the research showing the enormous harm to children caused when they are taken from domestic violence survivors (on grounds that the parent “allowed” the child to “witness domestic violence”). The article interweaves compelling case examples and a mass of research.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Currently, my role as Vice-Chair for Interval House Connecticut allows me to create awareness on domestic violence and intimate partner violence issues; it is the largest safe house in the state. I have been fortunate to continue doing community work around many social issues.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 19, 2023

It is an incredible feeling to meet a social worker student for the first time and hear their aspirations of opening a group home, fighting for indigenous rights, or protecting battered spouses from domestic violence, and then be the one to give them the tools they will use for the rest of their lives to help countless others.

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Relias

JUNE 2, 2022

While lateral violence doesn’t put healthcare workers in immediate physical danger, it still creates a toxic work environment that negatively impacts employee productivity and morale. Domestic Violence. It is not uncommon for violence that occurs outside of the workplace to creep into healthcare settings.

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Swhelper

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Gun violence increased by more than 30% in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by Penn State College of Medicine researchers. The researchers said that stress, domestic violence, lack of social interactions and greater access to firearms might have contributed to the increase.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JUNE 16, 2018

Learn about the impact of domestic violence on people, the prevalence of domestic violence against men and some unique challenges they face and resiliency factors that assist people in recovering after domestic violence.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Scoppetta , both state and federal courts told New York family police agencies that no, you are not allowed to tear apart families just because a mother is, herself, a victim of domestic violence. Research shows the trauma of removal in such situations is worse than any trauma that may be caused by witnessing domestic violence.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

She is wrong about domestic violence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. (If Rather they witnessed domestic violence. Presumably witnessing domestic violence again.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Among the worst: “ requiring home visits by the police in suspected abuse cases when someone in the family has a domestic violence history.” This new broken windows-style measure will only further scare domestic violence victims and give their abusers more power.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

She was not accused of beating them or raping them or torturing them No, as happens so often in Massachusetts and across the country, the children were torn from Toscano because she was, herself, allegedly a victim of domestic violence at the hands of her husband. And, in fact, Toscano tried.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Last week, we highlighted a story from The Boston Globe about how the Massachusetts family police agency persecutes survivors of domestic violence. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on what happened next. They do it even though the damage to children from needless removal is compounded when they are taken in these circumstances.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

There is a longstanding undersupply of drug treatment and mental health services, as well as domestic violence services, which were inexplicably left out of FFPSA. I’m not saying that all families were getting all the services they needed.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development showed an increase in family homelessness in Colorado from 2,151 in 2022 to 3,641 in 2023; and WHEREAS, McKinney-Vento Liaisons across Colorado School Districts reported nearly 18,000 students from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade who were unsheltered, staying in emergency shelter, transitional housing, hotels/motels, (..)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Back in Massachusetts, consider another group family police love to persecute – survivors of domestic violence. And as you read the cases cited by Cleveland.com consider: Why were these cases ever a family police agency’s business in the first place? Check out the story from The Boston Globe.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Poetic approaches have been and continue to be used to promote awareness of such critical problems as domestic violence, poverty, racism, sexism, and so much more. Consider the invasion of Ukraine, gun violence, oppression, and women’s rights as just a few examples. Poetry lends voice to the oppressed and can be empowering.

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Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

Domestic violence. Domestic Violence. Prior to the pandemic, domestic violence was already a worldwide issue. Sadly, these factors have led to an increase in domestic violence reports. global increase in reported cases of domestic violence. In the United States, they found an 8.1%

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Social Service Workforce

JULY 15, 2021

Issues of violence, abuse and exploitation—including domestic violence, child marriage, child trafficking, sexual and gender-based violence, child labour, corporal punishment, peer to peer violence, online abuse and mental distress—continue to plague millions of

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Imprint also has a story on that new lawsuit that attempts to stop the family police agency in New York City from harassing domestic violence survivors and their families. . ● The Imprint previews the forthcoming release of a federal report “on the devastation caused by U.S.-backed backed Indian boarding schools. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Rise is beginning a series on one of the cruelest aspects of family policing: The way the system treats children of domestic violence survivors. ? Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary writes about how many grandparents raising grandchildren are having trouble feeding their families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Shanta Trivedi explores the harm done to some of the children hurt most by “mandatory reporting” laws – children whose mothers are, themselves, survivors of domestic violence. ● In the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law , Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This too is backed up by research. A major study found that one can reduce the number of children taken from homeless families by half just by providing housing vouchers.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Domestic violence most common reasons for intervention. Concerns about the child’s carer being the victim of domestic violence remained the most common factor recorded by social workers in their assessments in 2020-21, being identified in 168,960 assessments, a third of those with factor information.

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