NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

The researchers who wrote the article for JAMA Pediatrics debunking the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth discuss their findings in this interview. During that period, state, local, federal government and neighbors stepped in. They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Bandela’s voiceover acts as an emotional compass and a guiding force throughout the film, which stitches together interviews with his two maternal figures, family photos, and various home and personal footage shot over the course of three decades. Continue reading.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In Minnesota, where this case takes place, that’s the term they use for a CASA volunteer.) ● For more about ICWA, listen to the Imprint podcast interview with Sandy White Hawk, author of the memoir A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return. ● The federal government released its annual Child Maltreatment report.

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

An outside source, like an adoption counselor, can help you better grasp all that goes into the adoption process, and can teach you about the benefits of foster care, becoming a foster parent, and adoption. In addition, the cost of foster care adoption is typically significantly lower in this type of system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can read news accounts about the lawsuit in The New York Times , New York Daily News , NY1 News (a video interview), Gothamist , Mother Jones , The Imprint , Courthouse News Service, and Reason Ebony Gould, et. When the mother opens the door, two government investigators are standing outside, loudly demanding to be let inside.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Foundations study, based on survey responses from 80 councils (52% of the total), interviews with staff from 35 of these and round table discussions with 31 kinship carers, examined how far authorities provided support to the different types of kinship carer. ” . ”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else. The Court simply applied decades of Fourth Amendment law to the facts of the case, and ruled that the government had no basis to enter the parents’ home. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court strongly disagreed.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Ofsted said that by placing social workers in schools – for which Newcastle is one of several government-funded pilots – the city was identifying children’s needs early and preventing some escalating to children’s social care. Inspectors described as a “missed opportunity” to assess risks and inform safety planning.

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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. This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

She became part of a secret docket of pregnant women singled out for intensive government monitoring. Every aspect of her delivery, down to the centimeter, was reported to the government, again without her knowledge. The government attempted to force her to undergo a medical procedure. Unbeknownst to A.V.,

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 25, 2025

But there was no avalanche of media coverage of his death, no interviews with shocked neighbors saying they had no idea the child even existed. WINK News producer Robin Wolf asked Kristen Ziman, a retired police chief who investigated the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting for the federal government, to review the case.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That is false and it's actually dangerous for children because it fosters and perpetuates a culture of ACS using these invasive and distressing and degrading tactics. You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

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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

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. At that point three things happen: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

ACS’ game of misdirection New York is one of 13 states in which local governments run family policing systems with some sort of state supervision. This clause is included in a law commonly known as “Elisa’s Law,” after Elisa Izquierdo, a child known-to-the-system who died in 1995. But, of course, they’d rather hide.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story – especially when a good reporter adds a little context. Not only for me personally, but for all the people, especially Black women, who’ve been devalued in these systems.”

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Children also benefited from early and authoritative decisions to escalate cases to pre-proceedings and care proceedings – though some children faced delays in going into care and were left in neglectful circumstances for too long.

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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

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. More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation.

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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.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

One doctor interviewed by THE CITY described an incident in which a patients mother was reported by a teacher, who had mistaken a rash for a bruise. So if the federal government is hell-bent on doing everything in its power to make poverty worse, the potential consequences should be obvious. But thats what happening.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As for North Carolina, what good is giving more power to the state oversight agency when a top official of that agency, interviewed by WRAL, insists the system isnt broken? Otherwise, its just foster care by another name. Avantae Deven adopted five foster children. But the systems in Hawaii, Iowa and Texas are state-run.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Here are the sentences: “It’s an extremely biased way of alerting the government to the risk of child maltreatment. Eleven percent of Black and Hispanic children in Massachusetts will be torn from their parents and consigned to the chaos of Massachusetts foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. Local media love it.

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