KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They provide family strengthening services , foster care , family reunification services , foster family recruitment and support , adoption , aftercare , outpatient therapy and more. KVC West Virginia KVC West Virginia has been around for more than 20 years, serving children, individuals and families in need of support.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It will if some lawmakers attacking kinship foster care get their way A few months ago on this blog, I posed a hypothetical question to some folks in Oregon. Suppose they took really good care of your child. Kinship placements also are safer, and kin are less likely to dope up foster children on potent psychiatric medication.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

These drugs, generally intended for short-term use, are sometimes prescribed for years, even though they can have severe side effects — including psychotic episodes, suicidal behavior, weight gain and interference with reproductive development … Moreover, many psychiatric drugs commonly prescribed to adolescents are not approved for people under 18.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

The city can make smarter choices that will reduce the number of kids placed in foster care, which will reduce strain on the system — and save kids from having to sleep in conference rooms. A classic example of that adage is Philadelphia’s approach to the welfare of its children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s also an acknowledgment of racial disparities: Black children account for 13% of Pennsylvania youth, but 35% of those in foster care and two-thirds of those in state juvenile-justice placements … But the story goes on to explain that, even with the improvements, Philadelphia still is an outlier when it comes to tearing apart families.

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

have continued helping people with critical in-home family support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment and more. KVC also thanks and honors its essential frontline workers who courageously continued providing child welfare and mental health services to those in need.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In The Imprint I explain why Safety Science is Good for Aviation, but in Child Welfare it Won’t Fly. ? In 2014, the Mercury News in Northern California investigated the misuse and overuse of potent psychiatric medication on foster youth. Gavin Newsom’s desk. The charge is felony child neglect. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

People who have had their children taken away by a discriminatory child welfare system that targets Black neighborhoods for family separation do not have reproductive freedom. story about the overuse of psychiatric medication on kids. ? She told The Guardian: Prisons are a major impediment in the United States to reproductive freedom.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

It's been nearly 50 years since the New York Daily News series "Big Money, Little Victims" exposed the power and the greed of private "child welfare" agencies, and abuse in their foster homes and institutions. But in the city, these agencies still are the foster care system. He called it “doublethink.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Yet it almost never is challenged by journalists reporting on child welfare. Children can be held in foster care for months before a court ever decides if the child was, in fact, abused or neglected. Such a panic has swept through the state , creating an artificial “shortage” of foster homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

In Los Angeles County, WitnessLA begins a multi-part in-depth series on the failure of the child welfare surveillance state with a look at battered mothers afraid to seek help because of the entirely justified fear that the family police might take away their children. Now check out the new twist, as reported by WBBM-TV in Chicago.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

One of the things that happens to children when they’re institutionalized is they are often doped up on potent, sometimes dangerous psychiatric medication. The New York Times recently sought to reassure us that, when it comes to foster children, that problem had been curbed. Unfortunately, the document is only advisory. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

● At long last, the United States has officially apologized for 150 years of trying to use “child welfare” and children’s “best interests” to eradicate Native America. For decades, as the massive American child welfare surveillance state grew, the response to anyone who objected was: “We have to do this, children are dying!

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