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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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Flying blind: the strange story of a strategy, an ideology, and an evaluation

Child Welfare Monitor

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.

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Garrett Therolf and the Magic Algorithm!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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

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Maine’s “Senator Soundbite” styles himself a crusader against child abuse. He also was “Director of Government Relations” and “Superintendent of Schools” for one of the most notorious “troubled teen industry” institutions in America.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending October 22, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● 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.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long (2024 Edition)

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Part one of NCCPRs news and commentary year in review for 2024 Tomorrow: Part two looks at some of 2024s finest journalism exploring wrongful removal and other harms to children caused by our current system of family policing. As a result, she reportedly suffered significant physical and emotional harm.