NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2024

In Oregon, "child welfare" has become a pathetic game of whack-a-mole. They also revealed that Oregons family police agency (a more accurate term than child welfare agency) knew about the abuse for at least 18 months and did nothing. And the reason for that is not because there are too few foster parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

But the worst harm is that inflicted on children forced at best to endure needless harassment and surveillance by family police agencies, at worst denied the chance to live with their own loving fathers and instead consigned to the chaos of foster care.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Back to Blogs Community Blog Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation click to Download information in pdf The following information is not legal advice or guidance. What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 19, 2025

But Burkhammer wants to prohibit West Virginias family police agency (a more accurate term than child welfare agency) from screening out any report from a mandated reporter and they make the overwhelming majority of reports. More will be abused in foster care. More will emerge years later unable to love or trust anyone.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

The Maine State Capitol Things keep getting worse in Maine, a state that once was on the verge of having a model child welfare system. Dreadful decisions by two governors and vile grandstanding from one current and one former public official plunged the state into foster-care panic.

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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

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KVC

MARCH 30, 2022

Whether foster care seems like something you’re called to or your are simply curious to learn more, you’re in the right place. On any given day, nearly 407,000 children are in foster care in America. The primary goal of foster care is reunification. The Statistics: Children in Foster Care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Their “study” methodology guarantees most abuse will be overlooked, and their advisory panel consists of extremists who want to expand the child welfare surveillance state while denying any problem with racial bias. Worst of all, they’re trying to persuade an “advisory board” of foster youth into believing this is legitimate.

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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. It is a symptom of the culture of contempt for families and a lust for child removal that has characterized Massachusetts child welfare for decades. This is not an aberration.

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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 17, 2024

59 new parents received one-on-one support through our Healthy Families program, 22 “forever families ” were established through our foster care program, and critical housing and support services were providedfor youth in crisis, youth experiencing homelessness and young adultsaging out of the foster care system.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

What can teachers/coaches/child care providers do if they want to help a family in need of a kin care placement? Kin or relatives are almost always the first resource that child welfare staff will explore if a child needs a safe living environment, even temporarily.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2025

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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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

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. it has to be held for the children!”

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

To find child welfare offices in Colorado, visit the Contact Your County Human Services Department website for county specific information. In kinship care, the child or youth is placed with someone with an existing relationship with the child/youth, such as a relative, godparent, coach, teacher, or neighbor.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

But with states around the country changing law, policy and practice to reduce child welfare agencies’ footprint, the number of “child maltreatment victims” cited by ACF is likely more a reflection of policy and practice than an indicator of actual maltreatment. Exhibit S-2 summarizes the findings of the newest report.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are two very important things to know about the process by which a child welfare agency removes a child from a parent and places that child with some other kinship caregiver. This process, known as kinship foster care, is usually the least harmful form of foster care. But it’s still foster care.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 25, 2025

But members of the legislature were already alarmed and began talking about withholding funds until the agency was able to report accurate data about child fatalities as well as the conditions of children in foster care. The bill would apply only to cases of abuse or neglect in foster care even though they are a rare occurrence.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Child welfare’s foremost data nerd has weighed in on the mess in central Florida child welfare caused by – well caused by a lot of things, including the dreadful performance of Eckerd Connects. Florida calls it a “Community-Based Care” (CBC) system of “child welfare,” but both those terms are euphemisms.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To read the account on CR’s website you’d think their suit turned a dreadful, failing “child welfare” system into a shining success story. But just four years later, the Tennessee Department of Child Services, their family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) has opened a bunch of new ones. Not anymore.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

Interviews with boarding school survivors, child welfare leaders and tribal members reveal a mix of concern and cautious optimism that the work [former Interior Secretary Deb] Haaland set in motion will continue. Child welfares crimes against Native Americans arent just in the past.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 28, 2023

KABB-TV in San Antonio reported this week on the tragic death of 16-year-old Mia Morales who died in a car crash after running away from a makeshift foster care placement. It’s remarkable how many tragic failings of Texas foster care – and the failed attempt to fix it with a McLawsuit – are illustrated by this one case.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

For example, in Minnesota Black children are twice as likely to be thrown into foster care as white children. Minnesota’s record of racial disparity in investigations and foster care is worse than the national average, and the disparities in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties are worse than the state average.

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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. For starters, there’s another caretaker in the home.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s the real message behind a monthly newsletter touting “the good stuff in child welfare.” Let’s focus on the “good stuff”: If you happen to be a foster child in Grand Rapids Michigan you can get a free haircut! It’s called “The Good Stuff in Child Welfare” and it comes from The Field Center. But all that is such a downer.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Now, let’s see if Senator Soundbite tries to undermine the progress The Oregonian has a story about the decline in foster care numbers in that state – and how it’s not due to more child abuse supposedly being hidden due to COVID lockdowns. That will start a foster-care panic, another surge in needless removals of children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It fails because even when you really mean it, under this system, the prerequisite for prevention is inflicting trauma on children and families by interrogating and stripsearching children in the middle of the night, at best, and hauling them off to the chaos of foster care at worst. So did Washington State.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 12, 2023

You probably remember the story: White adoptive parents of six black children drive themselves and the children off a cliff, killing them all. That may be all you remember, and perhaps wondering what would drive such a noble couple to such despair. After all, they rescued these children from their terrible parents, didn’t they?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Have you noticed something new about the “child welfare” establishment lately? Barth, you may recall, is the one who declared that – unlike any other profession in America, child welfare is 100% free of racial bias! He begins with this: Nice to see acknowledgment of the many ways that child welfare services do help support families.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Multiple organizations in Maine – but with the lead organizations dominated by private “providers” have put out a document they’re calling “A Framework for Child Welfare Reform” in that state. They’ve been led, or rather misled, by the state’s child welfare “ombudsman,” Christine Alberi. And that’s the key problem.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The big national takeaway is that these data – once again – refute the racist myth about COVID-19 and “child welfare.” Nationwide, entries into foster care declined by five percent. In Kansas, entries into foster care also increased by five percent – but Kansas was worse than Missouri to begin with.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

So the public was primed to scapegoat family preservation when Nixzmary Brown died in January, 2006 – leading to a foster-care panic , a sharp sudden increase in the number of children torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. The panic was welcomed by the Times.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” Where oh where to begin. There are many such groups.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Fostering is just one of many ways to help children in crisis, so here are seven other ways you can help a child in foster care: 1. Children in foster care have likely experienced abuse, neglect, or some type of family trauma. Provide Respite Care . Mentor a Teen . 27% less likely to start drinking.

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