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A New York State “child welfare” agency can curb one family policing horror with the stroke of a pen. Do they have the guts?

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. It’s the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS).

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The fundamental misconception at the heart of the Family First Act

Child Welfare Monitor

Because most parents involved with child welfare are covered by either Medicaid or (more rarely) private insurance, they could be referred to these services. I’m not saying that all families were getting all the services they needed. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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Maine Child Welfare Advisory Panel charts a better way forward

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Unfortunately, when it comes to the most important recommendations, the Maine Office of Children and Family Services, while not opposing them outright, showed no enthusiasm. The only problem is that the recommendations are too timid, often suggesting pilot programs for ideas that have already been proven all over the country.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In New York, thanks to a class-action lawsuit , its 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 childs mother. The family ultimately was cleared and someone else was substantiated for abuse.

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Child Welfare Update: February 2024

Child Welfare Monitor

million settlement reached in eight-year-old girl’s brutal death : The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department (CFYD) has agreed to pay $5.5 New Mexico: $5.5 Samantha died of blunt force trauma to the head, and Lerma placed her body in the trash. And already has, I would think!)

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NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending October 22, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● LAist reports on another new study, this one from UCLA’s Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families. This one concerns how survivors of domestic violence are victimized by the family police. The courts were asking ‘Why didn't you just leave? Why did you keep your kid in this situation?’