NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

In New York, it’s illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into foster care just because they “witnessed domestic violence” – typically a husband or boyfriend beating the child’s mother. New York’s family police agency is still harassing survivors of domestic violence and their children. said in court papers.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. ● As is so often the case, the professor’s comments minimize the harm of one of the worst “adverse childhood experiences” a child can endure – being torn from everyone s/he knows and loves and thrown into foster care. You know, the report the agency tried to suppress?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from foster care. In Dayton, Ohio, a misdiagnosis of child abuse forced infants into foster care for nearly a year.

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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. Of all the cases of children forced into Massachusetts foster care in 2021, 63% did not even involve an allegation of substance use.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 17, 2022

In fact, in an interview with Vice News about the same case, Davis said: “I was very grateful that they had attorneys.” A dirty home means you’re neglecting your children – so they wind up in foster care. The workers interviewed seem anxious to do the same; the story is filled with their proclamations of moral superiority.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Would she feel that way were she fighting to get her child out of foster care? By the way, Councilmember Oh’s child was interviewed separately and told the social worker what happened – just like Dr. Goldman’s children. Two trips to the E.R. in a week, and one required a child to get stitches?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

While researching my book, I interviewed a group of stewards for the caseworkers’ union in Massachusetts. So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. She said no.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

Her experience in foster care was far worse. ? In an interview with Salon about her new book, Torn Apart , Prof. Dorothy Roberts has a message for some of our white liberal friends: It's really important for people to reject this myth that children in foster care are there because their parents abused them.

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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

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. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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KVC

JANUARY 11, 2024

While foster care can be a crucial safety net for children and families in challenging circumstances, we at KVC know how important it is to help families stay together. Foster care prevention and family preservation services help families remain intact, allowing children to grow and thrive! foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Florida’s family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, has, in effect, confirmed the findings of a USA Today Network investigation that found DCF ignored widespread abuse in foster care. And once again, USA Today reporters trace the origins of the problem to the foster-care panic in Florida starting in 2014. (As

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The report includes interviews with parents, family defenders, and more than 50 ACS employees from frontline caseworkers to top staff. Staff know this underestimates the trauma of investigation and underestimates the even worse trauma of foster care. What’s in the report It’s easy to see why Hansell was so embarrassed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The Imprint’s weekly podcast features a fascinating interview with Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child. ? There’s more about the failure of the current system, the racial and class bias that are built into it, and the case for abolition in this Youth Today interview with University of Pennsylvania Prof.

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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

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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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

An outside source, like an adoption counselor, can help you better grasp all that goes into the adoption process, and can teach you about the benefits of foster care, becoming a foster parent, and adoption. In addition, the cost of foster care adoption is typically significantly lower in this type of system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

The researchers who wrote the article for JAMA Pediatrics debunking the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth discuss their findings in this interview. . … What’s happening in Texas simply shines a light on a much larger problem: Child welfare laws invite discrimination and have been used to regulate marginalized communities. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Last month, the Boston Globe published one of those stories popping up all over the country about a so-called “shortage” of placements for foster children, leading to some having to sleep in offices.

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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. ● You can learn more about how that happened, and the ongoing fight, at this webinar on June 29 from Narrowing the Front Door.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Roberts’ interview with Boston Review. Yesterday Basic Books published her new book: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Check out Prof. And read an excerpt from the book in Mother Jones Prof.

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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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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care. A report from the Children’s Commissioner for England last year found that 37% of children in care had been separated from at least one sibling in their initial placement.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 12, 2024

Together the partners identifying current federal rules that require state Medicaid and child welfare agencies to ensure health care access for Medicaid-enrolled children and youth in foster care.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Associate Professor Nate Okpych led one of the first large-scale representative studies about the effects of long-lasting, supportive relationships on older foster youth.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. Not only for me personally, but for all the people, especially Black women, who’ve been devalued in these systems.” This story from The Imprint has a good summary of Prof.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

KVC case managers Victoria Clark, Dalton Shump, and Micah McEwan all work for the Olathe, Kansas office, where they coordinate and support the day-to-day needs of children and teens in foster care and their families. We interviewed them to learn more about what it’s like to serve in these important roles with KVC. Dalton Shump.

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Jaeran Kim

AUGUST 11, 2017

That article, You Can’t Run into a Burning Building Without Getting Burned Yourself: An Ecological Systems Perspective of Parents Choosing Out-of-Home Care for an Intercountry Adopted Child was published in the Families in Society journal.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Rise interviews Rutgers Prof. A Florida county sheriff says that a private agency warehoused children in conditions so horrible he’s launching a criminal investigation. But guess who took away the kids in the first place. I have the answer in this blog post. ?

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Community Care’s Choose Social Work campaign aims to counteract the negative media coverage of the profession, and show the brilliant work social workers do every day. Photo: Daniel/AdobeStock Improve and encourage media coverage of events such as Foster Care Fortnight, ideally co-ordinated across the country.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In Minnesota, where this case takes place, that’s the term they use for a CASA volunteer.) ● For more about ICWA, listen to the Imprint podcast interview with Sandy White Hawk, author of the memoir A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return. ● (And note, in particular, the role of the “volunteer guardian ad litem ” in the case.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

And finally: two items about family defense: ● The Imprint interviews Tehra Coles , the new director of New York’s Center for Family Representation. ● .” ● One of the reasons Minnesota has been unable to curb child abuse deaths is because Minnesota tears apart families at one of the highest rates in the nation. And, what do you know?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can read news accounts about the lawsuit in The New York Times , New York Daily News , NY1 News (a video interview), Gothamist , Mother Jones , The Imprint , Courthouse News Service, and Reason Ebony Gould, et. If that whets your appetite for more, you can read the entire document here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This clause is included in a law commonly known as “Elisa’s Law,” after Elisa Izquierdo, a child known-to-the-system who died in 1995.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

There’s a new study out from Rutgers University concerning children placed in foster care for 30 days or less – placements that always raise the question: If you could return the child in 30 days why did you take the child at all? Here’s the bad news: It took a decision of the Arizona Supreme Court to get this done.

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