Relias

MAY 21, 2025

These may include : Exposure to neighborhood violence Experiences of discrimination Substandard housing conditions Food insecurity Foster care involvement Periodically re-administer the ACEs Questionnaire to capture any changes in the clients life and to ensure alignment with their evolving treatment needs.

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Telehealth Healthcare Mental Health Self-harm 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution.

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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.

Child Welfare 162

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Department of Human Services, went to great lengths to spin the results and direct readers toward the spin instead of the reviews themselves. Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit.

Child Welfare 142

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

For the Donlins, their nightmare at the hands of the family police, known in Iowa as the Department of Human Services, consisted of eight months of hypersurveillance and an attempt to take away their young children. They hauled the family into court and threatened to throw the children into foster care.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2018 The State Assembly holds a hearing Oct. In 10 states,* the investigating and family-separating is a local government function. Source: U.S. That state agency runs the hotline and that state agency does the investigations and takes away the children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A wise, nurturing community-run human services system, working with the whole family, easily could have dealt with that; there were those huge reserves of love to work with. The federal government effectively nullified his veteran’s mortgage by redlining his neighborhood. She rebelled by getting into fights.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story – especially when a good reporter adds a little context. Vermont’s human services agency continued to send teens there — even after the incidents. This story from The Imprint has a good summary of Prof.

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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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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, it’s also safer. That may help explain how a tragedy like this death in foster care could occur. ● 27 of this year.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Oh but this is different, those who’ve rallied round the foster parents would say. The foster parents in this case didn’t do anything illegal – in fact the placement was authorized by a government agency, and the foster parents probably have the best of intentions. Yet somehow, A.N.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Administration Welfare Adoption 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 110

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 1, 2023

That state’s child welfare “ombudsman” and a former lawmaker with a particularly ugly track record have been fueling a foster-care panic , leading an effort to tear apart a system that once, briefly was, relatively speaking, a national model. If anything, this kind of misuse of data is even worse in Maine. Casey Foundation.

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