NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Have you noticed something new about the “child welfare” establishment lately? Barth, you may recall, is the one who declared that – unlike any other profession in America, child welfare is 100% free of racial bias! He begins with this: Nice to see acknowledgment of the many ways that child welfare services do help support families.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

States have been hard-put to devise plans for implementing the new services because the bill was designed to fix a problem that did not exist–the alleged absence of child welfare services designed to help families stay together. Sometimes, in order to prevent the need for foster care, mom and dad might need a little help.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” And the government could still achieve the alleged purpose of this grant.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

It turns out, Paris Hilton knows more about "residential treatment facilities" than at least one self-proclaimed "child welfare scholar." By pretending that this industry has nothing to do with his sacred, beloved “child welfare” system. That’s why you’re in foster care.” So how did Barth respond? But Paris Hilton does.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At last: A group involved in oversight of Maine child welfare that shows a real understanding of the problems. The Maine Child Welfare Advisory Panel (MCWAP) Citizen Review Panel has produced a report with six recommendations. Note that often these programs have the full support of state or local child welfare agencies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? Wednesday: The New York Times published a front-page story about the study that was, mostly, very good.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A “scholar” who insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare writes a “predictive analytics” algorithm for the State of California. Somehow, the contract to write a so-called “independent ethics review” of the algorithm is given to another “scholar” who also insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Her new “report” on “permanency” for the American Enterprise Institute, home of Charles Murray , is so full of false premises and false promises that perhaps “permanency” is to child welfare what “creme” is to food. 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 21, 2021

The study found that when COVID-19 forced the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, to step back and community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up, the trauma of needless investigation and foster care was significantly reduced, with no compromise of safety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents. There was often nothing there, no reason for a kid to be in foster care," she said. “I

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

If this all weren’t so dangerous the answer would be laugh-out-loud funny: They know it works, they say, not because the algorithm was good at predicting actual child abuse, but because, in many cases, it was good at predicting whether a child would wind up in foster care! There is no chance for informed consent or any kind of consent.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

Her son was cared for by his grandmother – until the husband took the child by force and also made his way to the United States. The husband wound up in Massachusetts – and the boy, Ricardo, wound up in foster care – because the father was abusing him too. Olga settled with a relative in Florida.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. In New York, county governments (and New York City) run family policing.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

They say Hawaii’s family police agency, known as “Child Welfare Services” (CWS) ignored them. ? The foster/adoptive parents, who initially reported the child as missing, have been charged with murdering the child. Despite the pleas of relatives, Isabella’s siblings are still in foster care with strangers.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Is Pittsburgh’s “child welfare” predictive analytics algorithm running amok? The most highly touted, most far-reaching example of computerized racial profiling in family policing (more accurate terms than “predictive analytics” in “child welfare”) is the one in Pittsburgh. (For She’s still in foster care. *-In

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

They even acknowledged their own role in “contributing to racism in the legal field” in general and “within the child welfare legal field in particular…” Offhand, I can’t think of an organization that says “establishment” more than the American Bar Association. The topic is “anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.”

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. What’s behind this national foster care placement crisis? But this isn’t what foster care is for.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

S he describes her own experience of retaliation after she complained about one of the private foster care agencies with which ACS contracts, offers an overview of how “predictive analytics” makes things worse, and makes clear we need to dig deeper into how ACS is using it. ? government representatives – all of which they evaded. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Roberts’ essay for the Summer issue of Dissent , which begins this way: Imagine if there were an arm of the state that sent government agents to invade Black people’s homes, kept them under intense and indefinite surveillance, regulated their daily lives, and forcibly separated their families, often permanently. See also Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Dorothy Roberts , who explains: “A promising trend that this lawsuit is part of is recognizing that enforcing parents’ constitutional rights is critical to an approach to child welfare that truly benefits children. But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Attention child welfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world. In the past, this event was essentially a garden party for the child welfare establishment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

According to Virginia Public Media : Avula noted Virginia’s rate of placement with relatives is less than half of the national average — a statistic he said is skewed by the fact that local social services departments in the state prioritize informal placements with relatives before sending a child into the foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Here’s what happened: The family police (a more accurate term than “child protective services”) were forced to step back, community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up and the federal government stepped in with the best “preventive service” of all, no-strings-attached cash. There are two standard measures of child safety.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. 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. Here’s how ProPublica describes one encounter: It was 5:30 a.m.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. The phrase is an invitation to inflict the whims and prejudices of a white middle-class “child welfare” establishment on families that are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite. That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. You can read about those data here and here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

They hauled the family into court and threatened to throw the children into foster care. In fact, a major study found that even when children really are born with cocaine in their systems, such children still do better in their own homes than when placed in foster care. ● That is the real danger to children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? And it’s important to draw a distinction between that one element of government – the family police – and government as a whole.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Sixto Cancel grew up in foster care, survived the experience and now runs Think of Us , an organization dedicated to changing the system that did him, and so many other children, so much harm. The former lawyer for the family policing agency continues: [Cancel] cites his bad experiences in foster care. …

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Bad as it is for any child to be torn from their home and consigned to the chaos of foster care, it’s worse for LGBTQ children – the very children now targeted by Texas Gov. Only 17 percent of children enter foster care based on allegations they were physically or sexually abused. Greg Abbott. NCCPR Board Member Prof.

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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! Katz did something simple.

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