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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.
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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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.
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?
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The harms of removal and sometimes also foster care can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 2, 2021
He spoke these words when nearly half of the children in the family regulation system were Black, most were poor, and the federal government was rapidly draining social safety nets. In Arizona, for example, nearly every impoverished Black child will be subjected to a child abuse investigation and 20% will be forced into foster care.
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