Foster Care Medicaid Self-harm 
Relias
MAY 21, 2025
A trauma-informed care approach encourages providers to see the whole person taking into account their personal history, lived experiences, and current circumstances. This framework reframes trauma symptoms not as disorders, but as adaptive responses to overwhelming or harmful experiences.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 3, 2023
It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in foster care are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias. How do they know?
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Child Welfare Monitor
APRIL 11, 2025
During the three-year pilot, there were few reports of physical abuse, neglect or imminent harm for program participants. Home visiting programs can also receive funding through Medicaid, Title IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security Act, and many other funding sources. ” (Note that there is no mention of reducing abuse and neglect!)
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 29, 2024
Part one of NCCPRs news and commentary year in review for 2024 Tomorrow: Part two looks at some of 2024s finest journalism exploring wrongful removal and other harms to children caused by our current system of family policing. Oh, and care to guess where the director of DCFS during most of this time used to work?
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