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. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? That is making all Maine children less safe. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

They think they’re going to be working with families, helping families to engage in services, to be self-sufficient, to move on to higher education,” Everett said. The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in foster care. And, in fact, Toscano tried.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

People were asked things like whether, as a child, they had witnessed domestic violence, whether they felt no one in their family made them feel important or special or whether they “didn’t have enough to eat, had to wear dirty clothes, and had no one to protect you.” ACEs have become quite the fad.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Educator : Social workers educate clients about resources, coping strategies, and life skills to enhance their well-being and self-sufficiency. 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.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

was born) for issues including use of heroin, marijuana and alcohol in the home; lack of supervision of the children; domestic violence; an unsafe caregiver living with the family; an unsafe and unclean living environment unsecured guns in the home out-of-control behaviors by B.B.s How did DCYF reduce foster care by nearly 50 percent?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

● 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.” This one concerns how survivors of domestic violence are victimized by the family police.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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