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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 13, 2025
West Virginia probably spends on child welfare at a rate anywhere from 9% to 44% above the national average. Thats the publication that repeatedly presents as fact the false claim that West Virginias status as Child Removal Capital of America is some inevitable consequence of substance abuse. West Virginia Watch is at it again.
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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Child Welfare Monitor
JULY 8, 2024
Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. “We
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
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. According to the story, Toscano’s husband was also cited for substance abuse, according to DCF records she shared with the Globe. This is not an aberration.
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
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. Parents who lose their children to foster care, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
The closest thing she has to a concrete solution is no solution at all – making it easier to place Native children in hidden foster care. In South Dakota, Native Americans are 13 percent of the child population and nearly three-quarters of the foster-child population, an issue first exposed in 2010 by NPR.
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