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Child Welfare Monitor
JANUARY 27, 2025
“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack The Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, Bridget McCormack, has written a dissent in a case involving termination of a child’s rights to her parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights). In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in foster care. This story from The Press-Enterprise in Riverside describes a case in California in which that happened – and then the children faced horrific abuse in a foster home overseen by a private agency. ●
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 29, 2024
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, its also safer. Vermonts human services agency continued to send teens there even after the incidents.
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