Foster Care Human Services Self-harm 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 22, 2023
They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities. She’s even part of a group that rushed to defend a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor beloved by Tucker Carlson.
Child Welfare Monitor
MARCH 16, 2025
I had my first experience with the updated training last month as part of my preparation to serve as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a child in foster care. “Disparity occurs when these children and families have cases open to either in home or foster care support.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? She is dangerously wrong.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. At least 45 kids died of abuse or neglect in North Carolina in 2021, according to the U.S. Sarah Font. Why had this happened?
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
APRIL 2, 2025
According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, Disability Rights Oregon (DRO) charges that after a foster youth forced to live in a hotel committed suicide the Department of Human Services made false statements about key details and covered up its own culpability. Gotta give the Oregon family police agency credit for chutzpah.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 29, 2024
Part one of NCCPRs news and commentary year in review for 2024 Tomorrow: Part two looks at some of 2024s finest journalism exploring wrongful removal and other harms to children caused by our current system of family policing. Oh, and care to guess where the director of DCFS during most of this time used to work?
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