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When it comes to the problems plaguing “child welfare” wrongful removal drives everything else – including caseworker turnover. Case in point: Massachusetts

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

They think they’re going to be working with families, helping families to engage in services, to be self-sufficient, to move on to higher education,” Everett said. The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in foster care. This is not an aberration.

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In West Virginia, the bad bills keep on coming

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

ENTRIES INTO FOSTER CARE PER THOUSAND IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN, 2022 This is what we mean by "Child Rremoval Capital of America Of all the options for placing children torn from their homes, among the very worst are so-called shelters. First came the bill that would send caseloads skyrocketing.

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Foster care as a shakedown scheme

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The biggest problem with the so-called “child welfare” system is that it has nothing to do with the welfare of children. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) replaced welfare as we knew it. That led to the child being thrown into foster care.

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Attn: Older foster youth: Meet the professor who thinks you need money more than love

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Sarah Font is telling foster youth boils down to this: You can have a free college education – as long as you forego any chance that there will be a family cheering you on at graduation. After following issues involving foster care for decades, I’ve gotten used to the extent to which people in the system hate birth parents.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, weeks ending January 4, 2022

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The end of 2021 brought more outstanding reporting on various dark corners of the “child welfare” system. ? How about TANF as a child welfare slush fund. Also: In one state, The Imprint reports , foster youth have won a partial victory on the Social Security issue. ? ProPublica has an in-depth story on that one. ?

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending May 21, 2023

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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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In California, “child welfare’s” ACEs evangelists are saying the quiet part out loud

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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).