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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. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? She is dangerously wrong.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Dr. Sharon McDaniel, a pioneer in doing kinship foster care the right way, speaks out about the enormous harm of doing it the wrong way – through the subterfuge known as “hidden foster care.” LAist reports on another new study, this one from UCLA’s Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families. No, it’s not Project 2025.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Jane Spinak , author of The End of Family Court. -- Based on her extensive research Prof. The Imprint talks to Prof.