NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That means that if a parent is thinking of asking for help, such as HeadStart child care, emergency housing, domestic violence support, substance abuse counseling, or Applied Behavior Analysis therapy funded by the state, they should be prepared to deal with [the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services]. …

Domestic Violence 76

Domestic Violence Child Welfare Behavior Analysis Adoption 76

Relias

JANUARY 23, 2024

If a mom isn’t doing well, her kids will fail to thrive — they may do poorly in school and in life. Addressing maternal mental health through screening and treatment not only helps the patient but avoids perpetuating a downward spiral for the family and community. How to improve maternal mental health In the U.S.,

Mental Health 59

Mental Health Healthcare Disorder Depression 59

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Remember when children could walk home from school by themselves or even play in a playground without parents hovering over them? In New Mexico an Albuquerque Journal editorial declared, children are dying “seemingly … under the noses” of the state family policing agency. NCCPR has an op-ed in the Journal about what to do about it. ?

Domestic Violence 40

Domestic Violence Child Welfare Behavior Analysis Substance Abuse 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

had written, I am a bad kid and I need to behave at school or Mommy and Daddy will be arrested. 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.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Domestic Violence 111

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 During the ten years before B.B.s

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Domestic Violence Foster Care Substance Abuse Child Welfare 264

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

● Mandatory reporting does particular harm to children of battered mothers – because when they are torn from mothers whose only crime is to, themselves, be victims of domestic violence, the harm to the children is especially great. Even In those cases, again, 89% did not involve even an allegation of physical or sexual abuse.

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Child Welfare Welfare Domestic Violence Addiction 114

Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

We soon learned that the little girl, who was blind in one eye, had first been removed from Sorey at the age of two months by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) due to Sorey’s substance abuse. Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, was in jail at the time. New Mexico: $5.5

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 130