NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

That’s just one of the findings in the new study we highlighted in yesterday's post to this Blog (a study I first read about on the excellent blog written by Robert Latham, Associate Director of the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act. Yes, second highest.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anna Arons of New York University School of Law, in which she summarized her landmark study “An Unintended Abolition.” What the drop in foster care suggests The drop outpaced the drop in reports alleging abuse and neglect. The centerpiece of the event was a presentation, starting at 17:54 on the video, by Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

The most offensive part is how the story attempts to ignore those who are most vulnerable to this kind of abuse: Public health officials first grew concerned about the problem of multiple medication use, or polypharmacy, a decade ago, when it emerged among young people in foster care and low-income settings.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” MacAlister also said that the proposed £25m to improve foster care recruitment and retention over the next two years would not deliver the 9,000 additional carers he said were needed over the next three years. Government as a whole therefore needs to prioritise legislative time and investment for these children.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

Dorothy Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of NCCPR’s Board of Directors, just wrote a book called Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. But if you’re not white and you’re not middle-class, there’s nothing secret about it at all. She’s right.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof. Here's one way to do it: In Washington, D.C., I missed this one last month: Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

There is a right way and a wrong way to cover the release of the federal government's annual Child Maltreatment report. The American University Law Review is sponsoring this online event on Feb. Shanta Trivedi of the University of Baltimore School of Law discusses “Why is America so Keen on Separating Families?”

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Brightpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

associate professor and lead researcher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign September 26th, 2024 Recently, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz joked about objections to a free meal program for schoolchildren he enacted as Governor of Minnesota: “What a monster! The William T. Saving money and sparing children from harm?

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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.” 9076, which would create federal demonstration grants that promote meaningful relationships between foster youth and their incarcerated parents,” Rep.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sarah Katz, director of the Family Law Litigation Clinic at Temple University, in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “A federal law has been destroying families for 25 years. A parent may be sentenced to a relatively short time in prison – but, because of ASFA, for their children it can lead to a life sentence of separation from parents they love.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Other experts on childhood trauma, such as renowned researcher Dr. Bruce Perry and University of New Hampshire professor David Finkelhor, agreed. 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).

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

While many foster and other carers do not pay tax on the payments they receive from their provider for their role due to the so-called qualifying care relief (formerly ‘foster care relief’) scheme, the benefit this provides has been frozen for 20 years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The federal government released its annual Child Maltreatment report. It turns out that Because of #COVID19: -- The family police stepped back – investigating fewer cases and taking fewer children. -- Community-based mutual aid stepped up. -- The federal government stepped in with no-strings-attached cash for poor families.

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Beyond Advocacy

APRIL 13, 2022

Davis from Illinois who I met when I joined the faculty at Howard University School of Social Work in 2002. Cortez Carey, the recently hired Executive Director of the Foster Youth Caucus, was the evening’s spokesperson, a job he shared with Zahra Marin, NFYI’s National Policy and Organizing Director.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The lawsuit was filed by the Family Justice Law Center, the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private firms. When the mother opens the door, two government investigators are standing outside, loudly demanding to be let inside. But unlike most legal documents, this one reads like a good magazine article.

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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. ” After being set out by the care review, the view that university courses were not sufficiently evaluated was rejected by academic leaders. Resource concerns following autumn statement.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Mixed history Councils working together across regions to commission care placements is nothing new. A 2015 study by Oxford Brookes University for the DfE identified 35 consortia or partnerships involved in commissioning care placements, encompassing the majority of councils.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The event is being presented in conjunction with the Congressional Social Work Caucus and the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth. The discussion will be moderated by CRISP Legislative Director Dr. Angelique Day, an associate professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work who is a descendant of the Ho Chunk Nation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. None of us would want a social worker to be able to search our home based on such flimsy evidence provided by an anonymous report.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

(Florida calls it a “Community-Based Care” (CBC) system of “child welfare,” but both those terms are euphemisms.) Robert Latham, associate director of the University of Miami School of Law Children and Youth Law Clinic. But by 2015, the year after Miller’s Innocents Lost series started a foster-care panic, that was gone.

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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

APRIL 11, 2023

But, thanks in part to Sarah Font of the Penn State University “Child Maltreatment Solutions Network” (or, as it should be called the Penn State University Penance Institute ) , I have a new theory. She’s even right that the more time a child spends in foster care the greater the risk of harm.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As Dean of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Alan Detlaff devoted his career to fighting the racism that permeates family policing. One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Much of this loss and pain has been directly fueled by government policy.

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Community Care

JANUARY 2, 2025

There was also recognition for the former head of a university social work centre and a regional adoption agency lead. He was, until 2020, director of the national centre for post-qualifying social work and professional practice at Bournemough University, and then served as chair of the NHS’s Safeguarding Adults National Network.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

But their measure of accuracy is not whether the algorithm predicts actual child abuse, it’s whether the algorithm predicts future involvement in the family policing system: Did the algorithm correctly predict that the family would be labeled “substantiated” child abusers or the child would be placed in foster care?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism. But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care. So I reprinted that part, in full.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Deadric Williams of the University of Tennessee. 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.”

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Even though the ethics review for that one was co-authored by a faculty colleague of one of the creators of the algorithm, it cautioned that one reason AFST is ethical is that it does not attempt to stamp the scarlet number on every child at birth – something known as “universal-level risk stratification.” One of the ethics reviewers, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Among those sounding increasingly frantic is Richard Barth, former dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland. In that op-ed, she writes: Research finds that following high-profile child fatalities, child welfare agencies respond by removing more children from their homes in a “foster care panic.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Using the method that makes sense, new data show that during and after the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, stepped back, mutual aid groups stepped up and the federal government gave poor people what they need most – money – child safety improved.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The federal government effectively nullified his veteran’s mortgage by redlining his neighborhood. All children need unconditional love – children who have been in or near the clutches of the foster care system probably need it most. Dasani felt that her culture and her family ties were being killed. So Hershey spat her out.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Robert Latham, associate director at the Children & Youth Law Clinic of the University of Miami Law School, who wrote this on his excellent Blog: And lest you think this law has no teeth, the law prevents admission of any statement made by a parent without the notice being given. So we turn for analysis to Prof. That’s a full Miranda.

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Beyond Advocacy

OCTOBER 6, 2024

These Fellows, part of a cohort of a dozen government and nonprofit sector dignitaries, are on an 18-day visit to the United States. After a week-long executive leadership seminar at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, they arrived in Washington, DC, to engage with selected policymakers and practitioners.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To To get this kind of recognition is very gratifying.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

I truly enjoy their commitment to inclusion and justice and the hands-on experience provided through my studies at this prestigious university. I graduated with my bachelor's degree from the University of New Haven in criminal justice this past May and my goal is to work with adolescents in the juvenile justice system.

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