Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

By Kimberly Phillips Many young adults celebrate their 18 th and 21 st birthdays with presents and cake, but those in the foster care system might dread those milestones for the uncertainty they bring. If she failed, there was no place to fall. Okpych, with colleague Jennifer M.

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Creative Play Therapist

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Community Beneficiaries Foster Care Project Aveson School Altadena Arts Elementary Jewish Community Preschool St. Marks School Altadena Children’s Center Soultenders Clients

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

25 Sunday Journal editorial “Funds for baby bonds could be better spent on boosting foster care” says “Bold, new approaches are desperately needed” to deal with a “shortage” of licensed family foster homes and prevent children from being warehoused in group homes, institutions and state offices.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2023

By Sue Coyle, MSW Every year, more than 20,000 young adults age out of the foster care system. They are between the ages of 18 and 21, some having chosen to voluntarily remain in care after 18. After all, says Judith Schagrin, LCSW-C, a public policy analyst in Baltimore, “These are our children.”

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Children’s Defense Fund

MARCH 25, 2025

Provide full tuition and cost coverage at Ohio universities and colleges to students who have experienced foster care. Increase the state minimum salary for Ohio teachers from $35,000 to at least $50,000. Provide free childcare for childcare workers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

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 Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Tarek Ismail of the City University of New York School of Law, rebutted them in this column for the New York Daily News. ? The story also mentions, in passing, another intriguing part of the proposal: A first effort to entice states to count how many children they force into “hidden foster care.” And finally … ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. Presumably this also would rule out a large proportion of those providing kinship foster care, since they tend to be grandparents. That takes care of “permanence.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Another issue exalts the fact that one of the nation’s big residential McTreatment chains received “a grant of $7,250 to create a mentoring program for youth in foster care.” What’s striking is how monotonous these newsletters are.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fong will be interviewed at the second of these two events sponsored by the City University of New York School of Law. Note that you need to register for each separately You can register for the first event here and the second event here.) ● The head of the family police agency in Missouri is bragging that they have reduced foster care.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The algorithm doesn’t tell investigators when to tear children from the arms of their families and consign them to foster care; that’s left to humans. Robyn Powell of the University of Oklahoma School of Law and Prof. She’s still in foster care. *-In

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Or, as bad or worse, it might go to an outfit like Chapin Hall (see the item below about whitewashing abuse in foster care). There are horrifying details about the sexual assault of two young teenagers in Texas foster care. . One is 16, the other 13. I have a blog post about it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

A now-defunct publication that purported to advise journalists on how to cover child welfare actually said: “Do the fatality series” – with what seemed like the implication that it should be done the usual way: by scapegoating efforts to keep families together and setting off a foster-care panic.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

But in Truthout , Elena Gormley taught me about one I'd missed - and how that incentive probably contributed to the ouster of Alan Detlaff as Dean of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. ● The University of Baltimore School of Law hosted a webinar about the stakes as the U.S.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

Kristi Wood says her eyes were opened to the work of NASW when she was a student in the part-time MSW program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wood has worked in the human services and social work field for about 30 years, primarily in residential treatment, group home, and foster care environments.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Deadric Williams of the University of Tennessee, showing him during one of his lectures – and one of the slides he uses. It provides astoundingly small amounts of cash or basic goods so children can stay home or return home because, guess what, they were taken, or are now trapped in foster care, because of poverty alone.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

That’s just one of the findings in the new study we highlighted in yesterday's post to this Blog (a study I first read about on the excellent blog written by Robert Latham, Associate Director of the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act. Yes, second highest.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

An article recently published in the journal Health & Social Work , co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press seeks to address this issue. Parents with three or more ACEs tended to use more social services related to alcohol and drug use, mental health, and foster care payments than parents with one ACE.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 7, 2023

Robert Latham, Associate Director of the Children & Youth Law Clinic at the University of Miami linked to it on his excellent blog. 28 – The percentage of Hispanic children in Maine who will be forced into foster care at some point during their childhoods. I first learned about the study when Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

The most offensive part is how the story attempts to ignore those who are most vulnerable to this kind of abuse: Public health officials first grew concerned about the problem of multiple medication use, or polypharmacy, a decade ago, when it emerged among young people in foster care and low-income settings.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. ● As is so often the case, the professor’s comments minimize the harm of one of the worst “adverse childhood experiences” a child can endure – being torn from everyone s/he knows and loves and thrown into foster care. You can read all the recent commentaries on the harm of ASFA here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

. ● A member of the Seattle Times editorial board has made a discovery : Turns out, one of the best ways to shrink foster care rolls is neither parent therapy nor drug treatment, but something much more concrete: housing. This solution, to both homelessness and foster care sounds almost ridiculously obvious. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anna Arons of New York University School of Law, in which she summarized her landmark study “An Unintended Abolition.” What the drop in foster care suggests The drop outpaced the drop in reports alleging abuse and neglect. The centerpiece of the event was a presentation, starting at 17:54 on the video, by Prof.

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Beyond Advocacy

DECEMBER 22, 2024

If you are planning to arrive in Seattle early for the Society for Social Work and Research annual conference, we invite you to join CRISP, Wellbeing and Equity Innovations (WEI), and the University of Washington School of Social Work for an Innovation Day workshop on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. in the 3rd […]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Shanta Trivedi teaches and writes about the child welfare system at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Below, Ive reprinted the testimony of one of the many witnesses speaking in favor of the bill. She is the faculty director of the Meyerhoff Center for Families Children and the Courts.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of foster care.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 9, 2025

Room: Willow A, Level 2 Author(s): Nathanael Okpych, PhD ; Jennifer Geiger, PhD Presentation: Crossing the Finish Line: Factors that Influence College Degree Completion for Students with Foster Care Backgrounds Time: 2:00 p.m. Room: University, Level 4 Author: Jane Lee, MSW, MBA Presentation: Take the Subsidy or Not?

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

licensed clinical social worker and Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Florida State University College of Social Work, has been involved in the practice, research, and teaching of poetry therapy for over 50 years. Scherlong used this approach with children in foster care who had endured what she described as “horrific losses.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

So, what did the Herald write when something remarkably similar happened in foster care? Such advice can be found on Page 12 of this publication from the University of Minnesota. ? Nothing, of course. Fortunately, however, USA Today Network reporters in Florida did. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

And upEND’s co-director, Alan Detlaff, dean of the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston, writes about the complicity of the social work profession and the need to End Carceral Social Work. ? The upEND Movement has a new publication: Help is NOT on the Way: How Family Policing Perpetuates State Directed Terror.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof. I missed this one last month: Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

Dorothy Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of NCCPR’s Board of Directors, just wrote a book called Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. But if you’re not white and you’re not middle-class, there’s nothing secret about it at all.

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Brightpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

associate professor and lead researcher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign September 26th, 2024 Recently, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz joked about objections to a free meal program for schoolchildren he enacted as Governor of Minnesota: “What a monster! The William T. Saving money and sparing children from harm?

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