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The fundamental misconception at the heart of the Family First Act

Child Welfare Monitor

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. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Sept. 24, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The reports were careful, nuanced assessments – far better than what’s spewed forth from certain politicians, and the state’s child welfare “ombudsman.” Those last 11 paragraphs are an indirect reminder of how, in less than 25 years, Maine child welfare went from national scandal to national model to national disgrace.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Have you noticed how the writing of “child welfare” establishment types sounds more frantic lately? Records that have to be “admitted” into the database [but may not have been] include substance abuse records, visitation records and medical records. Josh Gupta-Kagan. I have a blog post about it. ●

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A jumble of standards: How state and federal authorities have underestimated child maltreatment fatalities

Child Welfare Monitor

Administration for Children and Families, are based on data that states submit to the National Child Abuse and Neglect (NCANDS) data system. Committee to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities, Within Our Reach , 2016, [link] Child Maltreatment 2022 (CM2022) reports an estimated total of 1,990 child maltreatment fatalities for FFY2022.

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Child Welfare Update: February 2024

Child Welfare Monitor

I’m trying out a different format for Child Welfare Monitor–a monthly newsletter format that highlights events and information that catch my eye. If you can think of a more exciting title than “Child Welfare Update,” let me know. Race trumps child welfare I: Black children don’t get attached?

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.