NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

There are an enormous number of things government can and should do to improve childrens well-being. There is a legitimate role for government in improving childrens well-being, but not for police. Every coercive government intervention into family life should have to pass a balance of harms test.

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Shelter, Inc

MARCH 12, 2025

Other significant risk factors include housing instability, caregiver instability, substance abuse, involvement in the juvenile justice system, and running away. Governments can pass stronger policies, increase funding for victim services, and train law enforcement.

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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2024

We should be asking why the government addresses their needs in such a violent way, (referring to the child removal). And at a time when the federal government and some of the wealthiest foundations and nongovernmental organizations are echoing much of Robert’s rhetoric, her reasoning seems particularly off-target.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That means that if a parent is thinking of asking for help, such as HeadStart child care, emergency housing, domestic violence support, substance abuse counseling, or Applied Behavior Analysis therapy funded by the state, they should be prepared to deal with [the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services]. …

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Second, all substance use isn’t opioids.

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Relias

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Perhaps even more concerning for the future, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimated that over 5% of the total AI/AN population in 2019 struggled with opioid misuse. Lack of focus on behavioral health care creates gaps Many Native Americans rely on health care provided by the federal government.

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Addiction Healthcare Crisis Intervention Mental Health 59

Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

About the skills and frameworks we bring to the table: According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the principles of ‘trauma-informed care’ include safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment, voice and choice, and cultural, historical, and gender issues.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 7, 2024

States reported a total of approximately 1,990 fatalities to the federal government for Federal Fiscal Year 2022. Yet it is widely recognized that states’ reports to the federal government greatly underestimate the number of child fatalities due to maltreatment by most common definitions. US Government Accounting Office (2011).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story especially when a good reporter adds a little context. Most of the attention finally being paid to these horrors has focused on institutions run directly by the government. President Biden apologized for what child welfare did to Native Americans in decades past.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

But treating the decline in foster care (the direct result of government actions) as a desirable outcome in itself can contribute to a disregard of actual child welfare outcomes like safety and permanency. Any government can slash the foster care rolls reducing or ending child removals, as many child welfare abolitionists recommend.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Here are the sentences: “It’s an extremely biased way of alerting the government to the risk of child maltreatment. Even In those cases, again, 89% did not involve even an allegation of physical or sexual abuse. Sixty-three percent did not include any allegation of substance abuse.

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