NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

Cara, who asked to keep her last name private, said she had already been in touch with a domestic violence organization about her ex. If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. Enter the Fearmonger-in-Chief Mass.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To read the account on CR’s website you’d think their suit turned a dreadful, failing “child welfare” system into a shining success story. But just four years later, the Tennessee Department of Child Services, their family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) has opened a bunch of new ones.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

New York’s family police agency is still harassing survivors of domestic violence and their children. In New York, it’s 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 child’s mother. Emphasis added.]

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

States have been hard-put to devise plans for implementing the new services because the bill was designed to fix a problem that did not exist–the alleged absence of child welfare services designed to help families stay together. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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Swhelper

MAY 1, 2018

The federal government spends an estimated $55 billion annually on dealing with the effects of childhood exposure to domestic violence, according to new research by social scientists at Case Western Reserve University. Government $55 Billion Each Year

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CO4Kids

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Back to Blogs Community Blog Child Welfare Blog Using Evidence-Based Clearinghouses Finding the Right Program for Your Community: Why Reinvent the Wheel? The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) , which focuses on programs that enhance family stability and child well-being.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

As the research summarized in NCCPR’s new Issue Paper makes clear, this has backfired – creating a massive child welfare surveillance state that scares families away from seeking help, overloads the system with false reports, trivial cases and poverty cases, and leaves workers even less time to find the few children in real danger.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

It was followed by a systematic campaign of forced adoption into white homes, spearheaded by, among others, the Child Welfare League of America. But that is exactly what the child welfare “ombudsman” is doing in Maine. I have a blog post documenting in detail how Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Like the psychiatrist who implied that Mom was to blame for being a victim of domestic violence. (He All of the children were taken away. Two of them were placed with the abusive father. And there is so much more: ? He didn’t literally say “she was asking for it” but he came awfully close.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

They overload child welfare systems – or as they should be called, “family policing systems” -- with false reports and cases in which poverty is confused with neglect , stealing time from finding the few children in real danger. I have written before about how mandatory child abuse reporting laws backfire. This too is backed up by research.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Last week, we highlighted a story from The Boston Globe about how the Massachusetts family police agency persecutes survivors of domestic violence. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on what happened next. They do it even though the damage to children from needless removal is compounded when they are taken in these circumstances.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Back in Massachusetts, consider another group family police love to persecute – survivors of domestic violence. And as you read the cases cited by Cleveland.com consider: Why were these cases ever a family police agency’s business in the first place? Check out the story from The Boston Globe.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Q: Why did you decide to become a social worker and work in the child welfare arena? A child welfare social worker meets with her clients. I have colleagues who were former foster youth, had parents that suffered from mental health barriers, or were victims of witnessing domestic violence between adults in the home.

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All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2025

Counseling may also be available for individuals, couples, and families, addressing issues like mental health, domestic violence, and substance abuse. Additional services may include parent education, after-school activities, domestic violence counseling, and kids counseling. Who Runs Family Resource Centers?

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Using an intersectionality framework, the authors bring together previously fragmented research into this population and explain through case studies the topics particularly relevant to South Asians, including domestic violence, mental health, parenting, gender and sexual orientation, workplace barriers, and aging.

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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

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. This includes defending individuals’ rights and addressing issues such as poverty, mental health, domestic violence, disability rights and substance abuse.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

My personal experiences, from working with substance abuse support groups to volunteering in child welfare and domestic violence programs, have deepened my understanding of the vital role social workers play in our society. This realisation fueled my determination to further my education and delve into the field of social work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

There’s a story, albeit buried toward the end, about children torn from their mother just because the mother was a victim of domestic violence. But all the while, Gualtieri’s office continues to shovel kids into those very conditions by tearing apart families at one of the highest rates in the state. Where have I heard that before? ?

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Social Work Quotes. How do you write a social work article?

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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. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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CO4Kids

JANUARY 13, 2025

Hosted by Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking and Violence Free Colorado.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Was that the intent of this poll done by Harris for a group calling itself the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) as part of its new child welfare initiative? There is no mention of seeking to recapture the spirit of the Indian Child Welfare Act. I don’t know. But some of the questions sure sound like push polling.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

According to the Child Welfare Information Gateway, ‘prevention’ is defined as activities that stop an action or behavior or promote a positive one. In many instances of child abuse, there are underlying issues such as domestic violence, substance abuse, financial instability, and housing insecurity.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Scoppetta , both state and federal courts told New York family police agencies that no, you are not allowed to tear apart families just because a mother is, herself, a victim of domestic violence. Research shows the trauma of removal in such situations is worse than any trauma that may be caused by witnessing domestic violence.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This morning, I gave a presentation with the above title At the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Here is the text of that presentation Have you heard? In South Dakota, it's when a child's "environment is injurious to his welfare." Poverty is confused with neglect!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

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 domestic violence. . ● It’s not just books. But KELO-TV reports, South Dakota is not.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Haaland, the case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act is scheduled to begin TODAY (Nov. Another post discusses two stories about “shortages” in Massachusetts “child welfare.” Rise is beginning a series on one of the cruelest aspects of family policing: The way the system treats children of domestic violence survivors. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Dorothy Roberts , who explains: “A promising trend that this lawsuit is part of is recognizing that enforcing parents’ constitutional rights is critical to an approach to child welfare that truly benefits children. Scoppetta , which curbed the practice of taking children from survivors of domestic violence prove that.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Shanta Trivedi explores the harm done to some of the children hurt most by “mandatory reporting” laws – children whose mothers are, themselves, survivors of domestic violence. ● In the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law , Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Their deaths were among a string of fatalities involving children who were the subject of warnings to child welfare authorities or the police in New York City. That’s implied when the Times regurgitates the Big Lie of American child welfare: the claim that keeping children safe and families together are at odds.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The real story of COVID-19 and “child welfare” was not a “pandemic of child abuse” -- that never happened. The state’s child welfare “ombuds” investigated and found that KING got it right. Speaking of dangerous delusions about adoption, check out Prof. Shanta Trivedi’s analysis, in Ms. , NYN Media has that story. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Far more often, we’re talking about parents whose poverty is confused with neglect , or parents whose only crime was to be survivors of domestic violence. ? Except of course, in most cases, that’s not true. The revelations in the Sun-Sentinel story don’t end there.

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