Child Welfare Monitor
MARCH 16, 2025
In FY 2023, the District of Columbia’s Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) updated its online mandated reporter training to include a module focused on understanding and addressing implicit bias for mandated reporters. and volunteers who work with children. After all, most poor people don’t neglect their children.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? The errors go in all directions, and all of these errors harm children. ? Another criterion: “The degree of harm alleged to the child.” Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.
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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.” LAist reports on another new study, this one from UCLA’s Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families. No, it’s not Project 2025.
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. On July 13, 2021, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors passed a motion requiring the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) to pilot the blind removal concept.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Jane Spinak , author of The End of Family Court. INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT In 2023, family advocates were worried that the U.S.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 25, 2022
Yet Therolf and Hamilton present it not just as a solution to the problems plaguing the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but the only viable solution. It also relies heavily on past involvement in the family regulation system itself. (By
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
But while they’re making themselves media stars, their statements fan the flames of foster-care panic , encouraging more needless removal, doing enormous harm to the children needlessly removed, and overloading the system – making it even more likely that the next child in real danger will be missed. That’s not their intent.
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