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 can read all the recent commentaries on the harm of ASFA here. You know, the report the agency tried to suppress?

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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

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. ● One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Shanta Trivedi, faculty director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore School of Law, write about the need to repeal the law that did so much to get us into this mess, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. Instead, she said, she was placed with a foster family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast.

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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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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. We look after x% of our children who cannot be supported in their own families and we have the services of x foster carers and x qualified social workers.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The lawsuit was filed by the Family Justice Law Center, the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private firms. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

ET, Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child, discusses her outstanding book and the intersection of law, journalism and social justice at this event sponsored by the New York University School of Law Forum. ? Rise interviews Rutgers Prof. Attending it will be just what you need to tune up your b.s.

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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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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

JANUARY 18, 2022

A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. Writing in The Imprint , Prof.

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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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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

MAY 8, 2023

My current internship has provided me with so many opportunities to meet with community partners, learn how to use anticipatory empathy, and practice motivational interviewing. My goal for my final year is to do a clinical internship working with children. My focused area of study is Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ProPublica reports that The new rules would also restrict states from spending TANF funds on child protective services investigations, foster care or any other programs that don’t meet the fundamental purposes of welfare: strengthening poor families and keeping them together. Sarah Font. But she did not see her mother. she wondered.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And see also The 74’s interview with Darcey Merritt, associate professor of social work at New York University, discussing why CPS should stand for Child Poverty Surveillance. ? Last week I highlighted a law review article by Prof. Another new article, from Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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, it’s also safer. More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

We should remove criminalization of women who are pregnant and taking drugs," Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said in an interview. Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) That needs to stop."

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Decades later, Stacy Torres, now a professor of sociology at the University of California, San Francisco, writes in Vital City that the wounds have not healed. Citing advocates including NCCPR, a New York Daily News story also noted concerns about a possible foster-care panic. NCCPR Board Member Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Even though the ethics review for that one was co-authored by a faculty colleague of one of the creators of the algorithm, it cautioned that one reason AFST is ethical is that it does not attempt to stamp the scarlet number on every child at birth – something known as “universal-level risk stratification.” One of the ethics reviewers, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2025

Dreadful decisions by two governors and vile grandstanding from one current and one former public official plunged the state into foster-care panic. The Maine Monitor reports that many parents wait weeks or months for a defense attorney even to be assigned dramatically prolonging childrens time in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

In Pennsylvania, lawmakers expanded the pool of who qualifies as a mandated reporter in the wake of the Penn State University child sex abuse scandal. Dorothy Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania gets exactly two sentences. Here’s a case in point from 2020. Things haven’t changed much.

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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.

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