NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

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 Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

. ● 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?’

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

. ● Tearing apart families because of foster-care panic is common; admitting that’s why you’re doing it is not. But this story from WitnessLA includes the case of a Los Angeles mother who was investigated by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but initially allowed to keep her children.

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