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Back in Massachusetts, consider another group family police love to persecute – survivors of domesticviolence. In the wake of a scathing report from a county auditor, The Morning Call reports , she was just relieved of her job running the “child advocacy center" at the local hospital.
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Canada has a similarly ugly history when it comes to child welfare and Canada’s First Nations. In San Diego, Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother not because she abused them, but because they witnessed domesticviolence. . ● It’s not just books. But KELO-TV reports, South Dakota is not.
The latest to debunk this myth is the ultimate medical and child welfare establishment source: JAMA Pediatrics. From the story: “For the families that we work with, it’s constantly living in a state of fear,” says [Teresa Nord of the Indian Child Welfare Act Law Center]. Although Minnesota is worst, it’s far from alone.
This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? Safety, permanency, well-being.” I am a lifelong tax-and-spend liberal and proud of it. But the family police cannot.
Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine!
Instead of a way of targeting horrendous cases of abuse, mandatory reporting metastasized into the foundation of a giant child welfare surveillance state, with disastrous consequences. Among those who suffer most: Children of domesticviolence victims. That has made all children less safe.
These stories appeared just in March and April of 2023: ● In San Diego , KNSD-TV reports , A San Diego mother filed a $10 million wrongful death claim against the county last month, saying Child Welfare Services failed her 11-year-old biological daughter, Aarabella McCormack, who died in the hospital last August.
OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. Thats why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case.
I decided to update and re-publish it after reading a press release from Prevent Child Abuse America stating that “PCAAs signature home visiting program, Healthy Families America, has been proven to reduce child abuse and intimate partner violence while improving long-term health and educational outcomes.”
We’re still seeing hospitalizations and deaths from the virus, and are being urged to get vaccinated, practice social distancing and keep our masks on in many public places. From the CEO: The Shadow Pandemic: DomesticViolence Intensifies During COVID-19. COVID-19 is still here. Backstory: Kick It! In the Public Eye.
was born) for issues including use of heroin, marijuana and alcohol in the home; lack of supervision of the children; domesticviolence; 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 During the ten years before B.B.s
The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.
The family policing establishment (a more accurate term than child welfare establishment) has not yet taken me up on that, and Im not about to unilaterally disarm. The only ground cited in the documentary for the removal of her children was the fact that she was herself a victim of domesticviolence. Have you noticed?
The cruelty in question: Child welfares attempt to eradicate Native America. New York University School of Law profiles the role of NYUs pioneering Family Defense Clinic in a big recent victory: an appellate court decision barring the citys family police agency from harassing domesticviolence survivors and their children.
I’m trying out a different format for Child Welfare Monitor–a monthly newsletter format that highlights events and information that catch my eye. If you can think of a more exciting title than “Child Welfare Update,” let me know. Race trumps child welfare I: Black children don’t get attached?
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