NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

He spoke these words when nearly half of the children in the family regulation system were Black, most were poor, and the federal government was rapidly draining social safety nets. We believe that the families Chaffee imagined were not his own.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , by Gerald V. Written from a modern, pluralist perspective, the text shows why economists and policymakers disagree about regulations, social welfare programs, government spending, and tax policies designed to address these economic problems.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Governor of Michigan appointed her as a member of the Blue-Ribbon Committee on Welfare Reform, as well as having served as a gubernatorial appointee and elected Chair of the Michigan Department of Social Services Advisory Council. She was a member of the board of the Journal of Women and Aging.

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

He has been the editor for the journal Child Welfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. She has nearly three decades of experience at the center and in government. Bernal was born in South Texas and raised in San Antonio.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Despite having similar educational backgrounds, their job responsibilities differ depending on the services they provide to their clients. Knowing the distinctions between these roles can aid in determining the ideal career path in human services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Department of Human Services, went to great lengths to spin the results and direct readers toward the spin instead of the reviews themselves. Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2018 The State Assembly holds a hearing Oct. The structural problem In most states, the family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) is a state agency. Source: U.S. Nine states are fully local.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To Vermont’s human services agency continued to send teens there — even after the incidents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But, as so often happens, because family policing agencies prey on the poor, it also became an account of how the so-called child welfare system makes everything worse. It is a must-read for anyone concerned about race, poverty, and child welfare. It began as a five-part newspaper series in The New York Times.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. Source: U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

For the Donlins, their nightmare at the hands of the family police, known in Iowa as the Department of Human Services, consisted of eight months of hypersurveillance and an attempt to take away their young children. It may well have begun because their second child was born just a little too soon – and definitely in the wrong state.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As a care professional in the human services industry, you’re most likely familiar with the common risk factors and warning signs for suicide, but there are other important factors to consider, like social determinants of health (SDOH) which play a large role in substance use disorders (SUDs) and depression.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 7, 2024

These reports are eagerly anticipated in the child welfare policy community because they provide much of the data commonly used to quantify child maltreatment and the operations of child protective services around the country. More specifically, several key points emerge from the analysis.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. Thats why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2023 America’s massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. That’s why we’ve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove” anything.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The foster parents in this case didn’t do anything illegal – in fact the placement was authorized by a government agency, and the foster parents probably have the best of intentions. We don’t know why, but we do know this: An evaluation from the Oregon Department of Human Services, described the child as “white – no cultural issues.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. And here’s part two , which explains why “permanency” is to child welfare as “creme" is to food: a fake substitute. ●

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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to data states submit to the federal government, about 1800 children die of abuse and neglect every year, but this figure is widely recognized to be an undercount. Lives Cut Short surveyed state laws and policies governing access to information about child maltreatment fatalities and near fatalities.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 1, 2023

That state’s child welfare “ombudsman” and a former lawmaker with a particularly ugly track record have been fueling a foster-care panic , leading an effort to tear apart a system that once, briefly was, relatively speaking, a national model. If anything, this kind of misuse of data is even worse in Maine. Casey Foundation.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But due to the weakness of the requirement and the federal government’s lack of enforcement, only a few states make meaningful disclosures in the wake of these horrific events, as documented in a new report. Instead, HHS provided guidance in the form of questions and answers in its Child Welfare Policy Manual (CWPM).

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