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Child Welfare Monitor
OCTOBER 14, 2024
These two young people had something in common–a long history of neglect (and sometimes abuse) by their parents and a failure to intervene by child welfare services despite multiple reports that children were in danger. Colin Gray was ordered to retrieve the other children, or they would be placed in foster care.
Child Welfare Monitor
JANUARY 10, 2025
by Marie Cohen This post was originally published on Child Welfare Monitor DC on December 9, 2024. Because I rarely post on that site, I am letting it expire and will include future DC-focused posts on Child Welfare Monitor. The number of children entering foster care increased for the first time in over ten years.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
And again, Black children are hit hardest, taken into foster care at a rate 50% above their rate in the Indiana child population. In Indiana in 2022, 85% of the time , when children were thrown into foster care their parents were not even accused of physical or sexual abuse. The harm isn’t just emotional.
Child Welfare Monitor
OCTOBER 5, 2024
As an illustration, I am reposting my 2022 review of Roberts’ most recent book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer Worl d. child welfare system. ” Those who liked Shattered Bonds will likely love Torn Apart.
Child Welfare Monitor
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
States have been hard-put to devise plans for implementing the new services because the bill was designed to fix a problem that did not exist–the alleged absence of child welfare services designed to help families stay together. Sometimes, in order to prevent the need for foster care, mom and dad might need a little help.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2022
Are the failures of social work really just a matter of degree? Image from Depositphotos ) Call it The Perennial Whine of the Licensed Social Worker. It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. She’s an M.S.W.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Yesterday, in a post about “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work, I noted that Alan Detlaff of the University of Houston, who has dedicated his career to fighting racism in family policing (a more accurate term than “child welfare”) had been ousted as the Dean of the university’s Graduate College of Social Work.
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