Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Sometime in the early years of the current century, a group of powerful advocates who thought that too many children were being placed in foster care came up with a proposal for change that they called “child welfare finance reform.” … So under Family First, we created new federal funding for those services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It fails because even when you really mean it, under this system, the prerequisite for prevention is inflicting trauma on children and families by interrogating and stripsearching children in the middle of the night, at best, and hauling them off to the chaos of foster care at worst. No, you cant fight trauma with trauma.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

When I was put into foster care, the government removed me from my Native grandmother and placed me with my white father who was a rapist and pedophile with prior convictions. After some predatory events occurred, I was put into foster care with my three half-siblings.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

In fact, the control the government demands can predate conception. But the worst harm is that inflicted on children forced at best to endure needless harassment and surveillance by family police agencies, at worst denied the chance to live with their own loving fathers and instead consigned to the chaos of foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 19, 2025

So even more children will be needlessly torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. More will be abused in foster care. West Virginia Watch, for example, repeatedly claims that the states foster-care-capital-of-America status is mostly because of drug abuse.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. What’s behind this national foster care placement crisis? But this isn’t what foster care is for. Let’s rewind.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“We are also investing £27m to deliver a fostering recruitment and retention programme so foster care is available for more children.” Call for more urgent government action However, council and fostering leaders urged more and faster government action to tackle foster care shortages in the light of the Ofsted data.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Further delay to the reform of children’s social care will prolong the “crisis” the sector is in and increase costs, charities have warned in response to the Budget. However, this was dependent on the reforms being implemented from 2023-24. “Further delays will see [costs] escalate.”

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

Councils are referring more children from residential to foster care, independent fostering agencies (IFAs) have reported. Children making significant progress in residential care due to effective therapeutic interventions, making them ready and willing to move to a family-like setting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

They’re dumped into institutions by family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) when they run out of foster homes because they take so many children needlessly. As she testified: “For children who do end up in foster care, we cannot allow them to grow up in cold facilities that act like kid prisons.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

According to Virginia Public Media : Avula noted Virginia’s rate of placement with relatives is less than half of the national average — a statistic he said is skewed by the fact that local social services departments in the state prioritize informal placements with relatives before sending a child into the foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Here’s what happened: The family police (a more accurate term than “child protective services”) were forced to step back, community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up and the federal government stepped in with the best “preventive service” of all, no-strings-attached cash. There are two standard measures of child safety.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2023

The latest McLawsuit reinforces ugly stereotypes about who loses children to foster care. ● s childhood had the hallmarks of trauma and instability that DCFS is accustomed to seeing in children entering foster care, including early childhood abuse and neglect, family violence, frequent moves, and unstable placements.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

Theyre feeding the tapeworm in the system Because, remember *-The institutions serve two populations, foster children taken from their own parents by force of law, and children placed voluntarily by desperate parents unable to cope, and who have no other option. They absolutely do belong in foster care or, far better, in their own homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The federal government has released state-by-state data for the number of children taken from their parents in FFY 2021 (yes, they always run about a year late). Nationwide, entries into foster care declined by five percent. And NCCPR has updated our rate-of-removal index. You remember, right?

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Community Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Jahnine Davis’s role will involve supporting and challenging councils to improve practice, amplifying children’s voices and those of under-represented groups and championing kinship care within government policymaking.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It is incredibly traumatic when government agents enter a person’s home and there’s the looming threat of a child removal,” [founder David] Shalleck-Klein told the Law Journal. And of course, the harm is enormous when government agents do remove a child from a parent … sometimes in the middle of the night, in incredibly traumatic ways.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

But before getting to what else Font got wrong, let’s look at the two things she got partially right: ● She’s right about the enormous emotional harm foster care inflicts on children. She’s even right that the more time a child spends in foster care the greater the risk of harm.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

In that op-ed, she writes: Research finds that following high-profile child fatalities, child welfare agencies respond by removing more children from their homes in a “foster care panic.” But in those very large jurisdictions, I have never seen a foster-care panic followed by a decline in child abuse deaths.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The foster/adoptive parents, who initially reported the child as missing, have been charged with murdering the child. Despite the pleas of relatives, Isabella’s siblings are still in foster care with strangers. We also know that abuse in foster care is widespread , and we know that agencies often turn a blind eye to such abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

Her son was cared for by his grandmother – until the husband took the child by force and also made his way to the United States. The husband wound up in Massachusetts – and the boy, Ricardo, wound up in foster care – because the father was abusing him too. Olga settled with a relative in Florida.

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Welsh Government has opened a consultation on plans to eliminate profit-making residential and fostering provision for children in care. Dysfunctional’ care market needs overhaul to tackle high prices and scarce placements, says watchdog. Related reading. Some firms ‘profiteering’ from children’s homes, says minister.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The algorithm doesn’t tell investigators when to tear children from the arms of their families and consign them to foster care; that’s left to humans. She’s still in foster care. *-In The investigators can’t be biased by this because they don’t even know the risk score.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

S he describes her own experience of retaliation after she complained about one of the private foster care agencies with which ACS contracts, offers an overview of how “predictive analytics” makes things worse, and makes clear we need to dig deeper into how ACS is using it. ? government representatives – all of which they evaded. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Sixto Cancel grew up in foster care, survived the experience and now runs Think of Us , an organization dedicated to changing the system that did him, and so many other children, so much harm. The former lawyer for the family policing agency continues: [Cancel] cites his bad experiences in foster care. …

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CO4Kids

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Theyre like treasure troves of successful ideas created by government agencies and research institutions to help you make informed decisions. How Clearinghouses Help You Succeed Clearinghouses let communities and government agencies explore what has been tested and proven to work. What Are Evidence-Based Clearinghouses?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

The study looks at every step of the process, from investigations to how often a caseworker claims a case is “substantiated” to entries into foster care to termination of children’s rights to their parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act. Yes, second highest.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

They hauled the family into court and threatened to throw the children into foster care. In fact, a major study found that even when children really are born with cocaine in their systems, such children still do better in their own homes than when placed in foster care. ● That is the real danger to children.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Roberts’ essay for the Summer issue of Dissent , which begins this way: Imagine if there were an arm of the state that sent government agents to invade Black people’s homes, kept them under intense and indefinite surveillance, regulated their daily lives, and forcibly separated their families, often permanently. See also Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Considering that roughly 50,000 children were in New York City foster care every year a generation ago, this cumulative burden alone is severe. Much of this loss and pain has been directly fueled by government policy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Using the method that makes sense, new data show that during and after the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, stepped back, mutual aid groups stepped up and the federal government gave poor people what they need most – money – child safety improved.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And it’s important to draw a distinction between that one element of government – the family police – and government as a whole. I think government can play a huge, constructive role in promoting the well-being of children. I am a lifelong tax-and-spend liberal and proud of it. But the family police cannot.

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