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

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

JANUARY 7, 2024

For them, intervention by the family police is, literally, the norm. In addition, Emily takes a “holistic approach” to her family’s health that includes “declining certain medical interventions during her pregnancies and declining to vaccinate her sons.” How might a family like this handle medical care during a future pregnancy?

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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

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

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

. ● At the end of 2021, NPR exposed the hideous practice of forcing parents to pay ransom to get their kids back from foster care. (No, The stories prompted the federal government to issue new guidance opposing the practice and several states and localities are promising to at least curb it. . ●

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Last month, two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. THE CITY reports on a fight in the New York City Council over whether ACS will continue to be able to run roughshod over families. ? Not one of those words came from a birth parent.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. They involve clients in decision-making processes and encourage them to actively participate in setting goals and developing intervention plans.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. This is the process of functional governing.” The January briefing was one of several congressional briefings CRISP organized to support foster care legislation.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Hierarchy of support Overall, it found that authorities were most likely to support to family and friends foster carers, followed by carers with a special guardianship order (SGO) for the child and then those with a child arrangements order or residence order (CAO/RO) giving them parental responsibility. ” . ”

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

In addition, seven areas are testing providing family support network packages to help extended families care for children and avoid them going into care. “If the government were minded there are things they could do to manage and sort that.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The government must invest in specialist placements to reform a care system not working for vulnerable teenagers and protect them from exploitation. As of March 2021, 10- to 15-year-olds accounted for 39% of children in care, and those over 16 23%, according to government statistics. Horror stories’.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Most assessments had a clear purpose and rationale for intervention, with direct work providing valuable insights into children’s experiences, and their needs being well-considered by plans that also included their wishes and feelings. .” Practice better beyond the MASH.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The government has delayed its response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care until next year. Resource concerns following autumn statement. However, Coutinho did not provide details on how it was looking to increase placement numbers.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Ofsted also found that children came into care at the right time after careful consideration, with social workers being “tenacious” in supporting children to live with extended families where possible. The inspectorate said the council now had stronger governance of children’s services, of which it had undertaken a full restructure.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And in its report on social care last year, the CMA found that councils “can struggle to collaborate successfully due to risk aversion, budgetary constraints, differences in governance, and difficulties aligning priorities and sharing costs”. It concluded this was unlikely to change without action by central government.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

This interdisciplinary approach allows for a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the challenges people face, leading to more effective interventions and support systems. Advocacy for Vulnerable Populations One of the primary responsibilities of a social worker is to advocate for the rights and well-being of vulnerable populations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. To move away from the ineffective intervention of mandatory reporting, policymakers must decriminalize absenteeism. The AFT has an overview here.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

I would love to learn more about interventions that improve the mental wellness of oppressed youth. Upon graduation, my goal is to work with The Department of Children and Families and continue to work with children in foster care and help aid sibling reunification. Awards Rollin Williams/Y.C. The School of Social Work Ph.D.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Child Welfare League of America, a trade association for public and private family policing agencies, many of which are paid for each day they hold a child in foster care, called CAPTA “foundational to the country’s ability to prevent child abuse and neglect.” Nah, just kidding. maybe it’s poverty, but it’s not just poverty.

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Brightpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

That family—especially if they are black or brown–might find themselves a couple of steps away from a foster care intervention when what they really needed were options that money can literally buy, like clothing, food, and child care. [5]. Saving money and sparing children from harm?

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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.” And imagine if the price for not meeting the government spy’s standard for “well-being” were to have the child taken forever.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This would be an overreach in the roles and responsibilities of a government agency. Both divisions of this same agency are ultimately overseen by Erin Dalton, who is as nonchalant about the harm of foster care as she is fanatical in her desire to vacuum up data about poor people. Emphasis added.]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

With a few notable exceptions (generally written by nonwhite reporters), the Globe follows the party line of those whose 19 th Century counterparts proudly called themselves “child savers” – that massive intervention into families is needed to keep children safe. In this story, America’s foremost scholar on family policing and race, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Apparently only a Harvard professor can tell the difference between those cries and these , from children taken at the Mexican border: For the Perkins-Sabey children, the experience in foster care was probably the least awful it can be. Well, that’s probably somewhere around half of all foster care cases.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It didn’t matter if they were institutionalized by government or private faith-based agencies. The child died in foster care We’ll never know if those federal funds might have made a difference I have a blog post about it. ● And those are only the ones we know about.) In some ways the faculty is catching up.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

Yet this hypothetical anti-terrorism law already is the law governing the system we call “child welfare.” Last year, the Texas legislature considered a bill to modestly narrow the grounds for coercive intervention into families and make it harder to confuse poverty with neglect.

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