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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The other is if they try to pass off official figures about abuse in foster care as bearing any resemblance to reality. States typically claim that, in any given year, fewer than one percent of foster youth are abused or neglected in foster care. Two ways to measure rates of abuse in foster care.

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A new book unsettles assumptions about “child welfare” foster care and adoption

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

See also: The review in The New Yorker The review in Publisher’s Weekly Asgarian’s interview with the Los Angeles Times And after that, you can sign up for Asgarian’s April 6 book talk with the upEND Movement at the University of Houston (it’s both in person and livestreamed). Emphasis added.]

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“They’re not your children anymore.” Notes on news coverage of a landmark lawsuit

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism. But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care. So I reprinted that part, in full.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending September 19, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Deadric Williams of the University of Tennessee, showing him during one of his lectures – and one of the slides he uses. It provides astoundingly small amounts of cash or basic goods so children can stay home or return home because, guess what, they were taken, or are now trapped in foster care, because of poverty alone.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending September 26, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong will be interviewed at the second of these two events sponsored by the City University of New York School of Law. But, in this commentary for the Missouri Independent , one of the nation’s leading experts on hidden foster care asks: Have they reduced foster care, or just renamed it?

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

.” 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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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.