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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

New resource ● While we continue to wait for the federal government to put out the annual AFCARS report, its official foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022, The Imprint has released its own survey , covering the year ending March 31, 2023. The Imprint survey does ask some questions AFCARS doesn’t.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities. She’s even part of a group that rushed to defend a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor beloved by Tucker Carlson.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s what they write: Some may argue that because all harm indicators included here (e.g., Two of them, Sarah Font and Emily Putnam-Hornstein, are part of a group that did indeed send a letter – a letter rushing to the defense of a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor who pals around with Tucker Carlson. On the contrary.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Even if they know that can do enormous harm, they may feel obligated to do it because they are mandated reporters. Because that’s what the adverse childhood experience of a child abuse investigation is really all about (except, of course, the toxic environment would be foster care, not a carcinogen factory).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 17, 2022

I also expressed the hope that we would see more stories about such families and more self-reflection within the system and in journalism. A dirty home means you’re neglecting your children – so they wind up in foster care. For more than half of all Black children, a child abuse investigation will be part of their childhoods.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

“But a group of mothers, attorneys, and other advocates who know the foster care system from the inside saw things differently,” Hurley writes in a just-published follow-up story for The New Republic. But in the meantime, the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth has done all sorts of harm to children. Emphasis added] ?

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2022

A lack of oversight caused by frequent changes of social worker led to a toddler suffering significant harm, a case review has found. Community Care Inform Children subscribers can improve their skills and knowledge on neglect by accessing our knowledge and practice hub on the topic , last updated in 2021. Improve your neglect skills.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Educator : Social workers educate clients about resources, coping strategies, and life skills to enhance their well-being and self-sufficiency. 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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KVC

JUNE 16, 2022

One report revealed that this support and acceptance is associated with greater self-esteem, social support, general health status, less depression, less substance abuse and less suicidal ideation and behaviors among LGBTQIA+ youth. Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.

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Community Care

MAY 5, 2022

Carers felt they were assumed to be guilty, undervalued and ostracised from the team around the child, said the charity, in a report analysing findings from its 2021 State of the Nation Foster Care. In the instances where the children in foster care were removed, 78% of the allegations were deemed unfounded or unsubstantiated.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

More than a decade ago I first wrote about how states use federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds – which are supposed to help poor people become self-sufficient – to investigate those same poor people and take away their children. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

Here are the most common types of child abuse: Emotional abuse: Mental or emotional abuse typically aims to impact a child’s well-being, self-esteem and self-worth. Physical injuries without an explanation or with an unconvincing story about its occurrence may indicate intentional harm to a child. Behavioral changes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

If you take money from a federal program meant to help poor people become self-sufficient and spend it instead on investigating those families when their poverty is confused with neglect – and on paying middle-class foster parents – what do you call it? Yes, family policing agencies really do this.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

This scholarship was established in memory of Donna Millette-Fridge by the School of Social Work in recognition of her commitment to helping the mentally ill become self-sufficient. My plan is continuing to work in the group setting and IOP services, specifically with individuals who are experiencing self-harm, depression and anxiety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Self-proclaimed liberal Elizabeth Bartholet wanted to force every pregnant woman to admit a spy into her living room from pregnancy until the child was preschool age. Bartholet doesn’t say if women would have to self-report their pregnancies or if their doctors or maybe their neighbors would turn them in.) Image created by openart.ai

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

Readers are invited to practice self-care while navigating this content and to consider reading the findings with a group to engage in collective reflection. Tyrone Howard et al, Beyond Blind Removal: Color Consciousness and Anti-Racism in Los Angeles County Child Welfare. million times. million times.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 5, 2022

In a paragraph otherwise notable only for its self-pity, DiLorenzo writes: After four decades of service in child welfare, I thought I had read and heard just about every disparaging thing possible from the external critics of our work. But more important: You heard the man! We decide your family’s fate! And most recently this.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in foster care. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. That makes the computer-generated risk score more like a self-fulfilling prophecy than an actual prediction. Anthony Avalos. Gabriel Fernandez. Noah Cuatro.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But while they’re making themselves media stars, their statements fan the flames of foster-care panic , encouraging more needless removal, doing enormous harm to the children needlessly removed, and overloading the system – making it even more likely that the next child in real danger will be missed.

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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.

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