NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack The Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, Bridget McCormack, has written a dissent in a case involving termination of a child’s rights to her parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights). In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.
Child Welfare Monitor
JANUARY 27, 2025
To add to the uncertainty around timing, the writers of CM 2023 are not exactly correct when they state that all states report on the fatalities determined in the reporting year. But with a drastic drop in foster care placements in Texas, there is reason to fear that maltreatment fatalities increased rather than decreased.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Last month, the New York Law Journal published an excellent article about the Family Justice Law Center. But assuming the flack is correct, what that really tells us is that a minimum of 98% of what ACS does is b t. with foster care now at all-time low of less than 7,200 children.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in foster care. This story from The Press-Enterprise in Riverside describes a case in California in which that happened – and then the children faced horrific abuse in a foster home overseen by a private agency. ●
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 19, 2022
In child welfare, we all say the same things, but we all mean different things by what we say: Nobody ever says: “I think foster care should be the first resort!” Because even if Maine had all the help families need, in the current climate of foster-care panic , caseworkers are going to be afraid to use it.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 23, 2022
That contributes to foster-care panics , sharp, sudden increases in children needlessly torn from their homes. They’ve issued a series of demands, directed at the Board of Supervisors, which would, at long last, bring a measure of racial justice to Los Angeles child welfare. I am proud to work with both groups.
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