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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 17, 2025
If youre wondering why fencing also might be needed to keep dangers out it illustrates another reason why residential treatment is so harmful. Senate Committee report points out: [Residential treatment facilities] are costly, not as effective as community-based behavioral health treatment options, and often harmful to youth in their care.
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
MARCH 28, 2023
As Sankaran and Church point out: any public reporting of the number of adopted children who once again enter foster care is likely an underestimate. Even with these limited data, a recent study found that more than 66,000 adopted children ended up back in foster care between 2008 to 2020, an average of 12 a day.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 3, 2023
It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in foster care are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 2, 2023
Even if they know that can do enormous harm, they may feel obligated to do it because they are mandated reporters. Because that’s what the adverse childhood experience of a child abuse investigation is really all about (except, of course, the toxic environment would be foster care, not a carcinogen factory).
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2023
New resource ● While we continue to wait for the federal government to put out the annual AFCARS report, its official foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022, The Imprint has released its own survey , covering the year ending March 31, 2023. The Imprint survey does ask some questions AFCARS doesn’t.
Social Work Haven
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Educator : Social workers educate clients about resources, coping strategies, and life skills to enhance their well-being and self-sufficiency. 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.
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