Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Assessments were also generally of good quality for children subject to care proceedings, while most children in care were living locally in foster care thanks to a dedicated focus on bringing back those in out-of-area placements. Highly impressive and aspirational’ leadership.

Social Worker 58

Social Worker Interviewing Foster Care Diversity 58

University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My current internship has provided me with so many opportunities to meet with community partners, learn how to use anticipatory empathy, and practice motivational interviewing. My goal for my final year is to do a clinical internship working with children. Julio Morales Jr., My focused area of study is Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 25, 2025

But there was no avalanche of media coverage of his death, no interviews with shocked neighbors saying they had no idea the child even existed. Adoptions and Severe Abuse Begidu’s story has similarities with the stories of other children adopted from overseas or from foster care.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Or does ACS prefer a system that allows it to engage in maximum feasible buck-passing? That is false and it's actually dangerous for children because it fosters and perpetuates a culture of ACS using these invasive and distressing and degrading tactics. But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Both divisions of this same agency are ultimately overseen by Erin Dalton, who is as nonchalant about the harm of foster care as she is fanatical in her desire to vacuum up data about poor people. At the highest alleged level of risk, the program calls it “relentless engagement.” At that point three things happen: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

And, precisely because most cases we think of when we hear the words “child abuse” are nothing like the horror stories and far more like the case of Logan Marr, the data show that, almost always, family preservation is safer than foster care. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Interviewing 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Martin Guggenheim calls “ACS’s widespread practice of engaging in lawless home invasions that terrorize parents and children.” That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Schools 98

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. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Social workers built positive relationships with children and their families, including through persistent engagement with parents that led to improved outcomes for children. Staff turnover was also a problem in the fostering service, which resulted in carers having insufficient training or support from supervising social workers.

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Social Worker Adoption Interventional Engagement 64

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Domestic Violence 111

Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 11, 2025

The trial suffered from severe methodological limitations, including “less than ideal followup,” differential dropout rates in the program and control groups, the failure to blind interviewers to experimental or control status, and reliance on program staff rather than researchers to measure some outcomes.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

Readers are invited to practice self-care while navigating this content and to consider reading the findings with a group to engage in collective reflection. ” And a fifth of social workers and supervisors “perceived greater engagement and support across key aspects of their work as defined in the Core Practice Model.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, its also safer. From KABC-TV, Los Angeles : A story about a civil lawsuit filed by victims of horrific abuse both in their own home and then in foster care.

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