Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 10, 2025

The number of children entering foster care increased for the first time in over ten years. There was a drop in in-home case openings but a similar increase in foster care placements during the year. But the number of children being served in their homes decreased by 50 while the number in foster care increased by 49.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Social Worker 130

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.

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Domestic Violence Child Welfare Welfare 98

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. This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents.

Social Worker 95

Social Worker Treatment Planning Interventional Justice and Corrections 95

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Domestic Violence 112

Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

We soon learned that the little girl, who was blind in one eye, had first been removed from Sorey at the age of two months by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) due to Sorey’s substance abuse. An article in the Washington Post reported on interviews with three of the mothers participating in the pilot.

Child Welfare 130

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 130

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Eleven percent of Black and Hispanic children in Massachusetts will be torn from their parents and consigned to the chaos of Massachusetts foster care. Even In those cases, again, 89% did not involve even an allegation of physical or sexual abuse. Sixty-three percent did not include any allegation of substance abuse.

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Child Welfare Welfare Domestic Violence Addiction 116

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. From KABC-TV, Los Angeles : A story about a civil lawsuit filed by victims of horrific abuse both in their own home and then in foster care.

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 119