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Child Welfare Monitor
JANUARY 27, 2025
But with states around the country changing law, policy and practice to reduce child welfare agencies’ footprint, the number of “child maltreatment victims” cited by ACF is likely more a reflection of policy and practice than an indicator of actual maltreatment. Exhibit S-2 summarizes the findings of the newest report.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. Justice McCormack is retiring, and what may be her final opinion in a family policing case goes well beyond any one case. But in some cases, correcting such conditions is, literally, impossible.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 19, 2022
Multiple organizations in Maine – but with the lead organizations dominated by private “providers” have put out a document they’re calling “A Framework for Child Welfare Reform” in that state. They’ve been led, or rather misled, by the state’s child welfare “ombudsman,” Christine Alberi. And that’s the key problem.
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
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 23, 2022
The former Times reporter and still their go-to guy for child welfare stories continues to soft-peddle racial bias. That contributes to foster-care panics , sharp, sudden increases in children needlessly torn from their homes. Garrett Therolf was among those speaking at a Los Angeles Times "Ask a Reporter" event on January 20.
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.
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