Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

But with a drastic drop in foster care placements in Texas, there is reason to fear that maltreatment fatalities increased rather than decreased. Finding fewer victims is one way to reduce CPS intervention in the lives of vulnerable children–and to deny that the reductions are harmful.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Shelter provides therapy to children and families in each of their programs, including those staying at its emergency shelters and transitional living homes, in foster care or enrolled in Shelter’s Healthy Families program. Many of them have never had an adult in their life who consistently makes them feel secure.”

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In the meantime, ministers have allocated over £250m for 2025-26 to “test innovative measures to support children and reduce costs for local authorities”, including allowances for kinship carers and the rollout of regional hubs to support foster care recruitment. “Further delays will see [costs] escalate.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

So the head of the industrys trade association, Becky Miller Updike, told a Colorado legislative committee: Were seeing suicidal, homicidal 6-year-olds and they do not belong in foster care. They absolutely do belong in foster care or, far better, in their own homes. Later she changed the age to 5.)

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 13, 2025

Under the terms of the BCP, both organizations will provide shelter for up to 21 days, offering comprehensive services, including crisis intervention, individual counseling, family reunification support, and case management. Programs include emergency housing, transitional living, foster care, home visiting and clinical support services.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2024

For them, intervention by the family police is, literally, the norm. In addition, Emily takes a “holistic approach” to her family’s health that includes “declining certain medical interventions during her pregnancies and declining to vaccinate her sons.” How might a family like this handle medical care during a future pregnancy?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 2, 2022

On the other hand, another in a long line of studies suggests it may reduce foster care entries. But for these and similar interventions there is one huge catch: Call it the tattletale factor. At worst, this can wind up widening the net of needless intervention into families. The effort is probably sincere.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

. ● Florida families who say they were denied the chance to care for extended family members, with the children sometimes placed with well-connected strangers instead, are not giving up their legal fight, as WFTS-TV reports. ● From The Guardian , this story from San Diego: “She lost her child in a home birth. And ICYMI, here’s the trailer:

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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 9, 2022

Last week, they published a story about high turnover among caseworkers for the private agencies that oversee foster care in that city, and the enormous harm that does to children. A common misunderstanding is that the leading reason kids are taken into the foster care system is because of physical or sexual abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

And, precisely because most cases we think of when we hear the words “child abuse” are nothing like the horror stories and far more like the case of Logan Marr, the data show that, almost always, family preservation is safer than foster care. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

. ● A member of the Seattle Times editorial board has made a discovery : Turns out, one of the best ways to shrink foster care rolls is neither parent therapy nor drug treatment, but something much more concrete: housing. This solution, to both homelessness and foster care sounds almost ridiculously obvious. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The harms of removal and sometimes also foster care can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Successful child abuse interventions are two-fold: they must reduce risk factors and promote protective factors to ensure the well-being of children and families. Parents in such circumstances are often young with past experiences in foster care or the juvenile justice system.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 9, 2025

Room: Willow A, Level 2 Author(s): Nathanael Okpych, PhD ; Jennifer Geiger, PhD Presentation: Crossing the Finish Line: Factors that Influence College Degree Completion for Students with Foster Care Backgrounds Time: 2:00 p.m. Room: University, Level 4 Author: Jane Lee, MSW, MBA Presentation: Take the Subsidy or Not? 11:15 a.m.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

Social workers spend a tremendous amount of time and resources developing interventions to help serve disadvantaged families and individuals. Parents with three or more ACEs tended to use more social services related to alcohol and drug use, mental health, and foster care payments than parents with one ACE.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

At the end of 2021, NPR exposed the hideous practice of forcing parents to pay ransom to get their kids back from foster care. (No, We had therapeutic interventions for Violet’s tantrums, but no plan for getting her family back together. You can read the entire series here. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Combine these two stories with earlier excellent work by the same reporters on family policing agencies diverting some foster youth’s Social Security payments to help run their bureaucracies and you see a pattern, discussed in this NCCPR blog post about foster care as a shakedown scheme.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 4, 2023

And the listing increases the odds that, even if the children weren’t thrown into foster care this time, it will happen if the family is reported again – because the listing raises suspicions, whether it’s the guess of a human caseworker or a computer algorithm raising a family’s “risk score.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2022

That contributes to foster-care panics , sharp, sudden increases in children needlessly torn from their homes. We’re explaining the problem – and why foster-care panics make it worse -- and suggesting real solutions. Therolf’s critics are simply doing his job for him. By the way, in Los Angeles it’s probably 58%. )

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We have forced millions into foster care where the rate of abuse is, in fact, vastly higher than in the general population and, independent studies show , vastly higher than agencies admit in official figures. She complains about kinship foster care in part because relatives “live on the economic margins” [p.157]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2023

● New England Public Media has an excellent story about how Massachusetts is piloting the most promising innovation in the country for safely reducing needless foster care. Oh, and one more thing: The crisis that led to all this actually began with a botched family police intervention involving Ms. Lopez’s oldest child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

She did it -- three times -- when The New York Times exposed foster care as “the new ‘Jane Crow’.” She wrote: I’m a licensed clinical social worker who spent my career in public child welfare, primarily providing foster care services. All this made “Jane Addams” very upset.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent. As the story explains: Rodriguez’s passion for reforming DCF stems from her own experience in foster care.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. They involve clients in decision-making processes and encourage them to actively participate in setting goals and developing intervention plans.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Last month, two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. THE CITY reports on a fight in the New York City Council over whether ACS will continue to be able to run roughshod over families. ? Not one of those words came from a birth parent.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

MAY 24, 2021

Foster care is an active intervention with the goal of helping the young child to recover from their traumatic experience, not just a “place to stay.” ~ The foster/resource parent is an essential partner in the recovery of the young child. Transitions for young children should be carefully planned .

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

For some children, foster care, residential care or care by someone within their extended network is considered necessary for their immediate or longer-term safety. An alternative to foster care Fostering Families is an alternative to foster care and draws upon ideas presented by Crittenden and Farnfield (2007).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It took the intervention of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to undo some of the damage done to the children at the center of this case. How it took the intervention of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to stop things from getting even worse. ? How, after a judge returned the children, the family police brought new charges.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Matarese is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for LGBTQ+ Children and Youth in Foster Care, and the National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification funded by the Children’s Bureau.

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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. Former Congresswoman Karen Bass, now Mayor Bass, was the catalyst for a transformational wave in foster care when she arrived in Congress in 2011 and immediately created the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Hierarchy of support Overall, it found that authorities were most likely to support to family and friends foster carers, followed by carers with a special guardianship order (SGO) for the child and then those with a child arrangements order or residence order (CAO/RO) giving them parental responsibility.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2023

When marijuana was legalized in Colorado family police intervention in families where it was used actually increased. Yet it’s the Roxbury mom who doesn’t dare use pot – or at least makes sure to hide that use -- because she knows that paints a target on her back and she could lose her children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”) Has ACS ever gone to the legislature and asked lawmakers to change the law to empower it to screen out reports that don’t deserve any “intervention” at all? But that only tells part of the story.

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