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. But rarely children really do face horrific abuse in their own homes. The research arm of the Maine Legislature produced a series of reports on recent child abuse deaths.

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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.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Community Organizer : Social workers may organise and mobilise communities to address social issues, promote social justice, and create positive change. 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.

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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. Its sites like this one that are entrusted to care for our most vulnerable youth. Not that wed ever say we told you so.)

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