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

JANUARY 18, 2022

A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. Writing in The Imprint , Prof.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. She also works with agencies to train staff in Motivational Interviewing. Todd Sage , Ph.D., MSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. Here’s how ProPublica describes one encounter: It was 5:30 a.m. Flashlights beamed in through the windows of the ground-floor apartment in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. When she did, the first thing she saw was that the police had their guns drawn.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 12, 2023

See also: The review in The New Yorker The review in Publisher’s Weekly Asgarian’s interview with the Los Angeles Times And after that, you can sign up for Asgarian’s April 6 book talk with the upEND Movement at the University of Houston (it’s both in person and livestreamed). Emphasis added.]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 17, 2022

In fact, in an interview with Vice News about the same case, Davis said: “I was very grateful that they had attorneys.” The workers interviewed seem anxious to do the same; the story is filled with their proclamations of moral superiority. Abbott at least he might be able to cushion the blow.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality. Enter the Fearmonger-in-Chief Mass. The remainder, 14,345 cases, are labeled simply as “neglect.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But, particularly when it comes to substance use, some of these courts exist where so much of the child welfare establishment does, at the intersection of ignorance and arrogance. The Imprint’s weekly podcast features a fascinating interview with Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child. ?

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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. No actual foster youth will be interviewed about her or his own experiences. I don’t think they’ll be fooled.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1. So the story rightly points out that For decades, class-action lawsuits have been a major vehicle for reform in child welfare systems nationwide.

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Relias

JUNE 22, 2022

The post Co-Parenting Building Blocks: Interview With an Expert appeared first on Relias. When in doubt, remind the parents that these arrangements are in place for the healthy development of the child — the one thing that both co-parenting parties continue to have in common.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Twenty years ago, Penn Law Professor (and NCCPR Board Member) Dorothy Roberts changed the landscape of “child welfare” when she literally wrote the book on racial bias in family policing: Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. Roberts’ interview with Boston Review. Check out Prof.

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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 Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The report describes a pattern of poor conditions and abusive practices that the SFC staff observed by reviewing media articles and company documents, supplemented by interviews with senior leaders in the four companies and visits to several facilities not operated by these companies.

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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. isn’t reassuring. Caseworkers themselves understand.

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Community Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

Phase 9 of the series covered 2022-24 and was based on data from 124 local authorities, extrapolated to cover all 153 councils, survey responses from 86 authorities and interviews with 34 directors of children’s services. from 2020-24.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 12, 2024

Mathematica and Innovations Institute have partnered to advance policymakers’ understanding of how Medicaid and child welfare agencies ensure youth in the child welfare system receive access to health care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

● Think you know all about the cases at the heart of the current challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act? And now, the new federal report tells us: Instead of the pandemic of child abuse predicted by child welfare establishment fearmongers and their media allies, child abuse went down. The Imprint has a summary.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

But just two days after the Parent Map story was published, KFMB-TV in San Diego reported this story: A Marine Corps pilot and his wife are suing the County of San Diego after Child Welfare Services took their seven-month-old son from their home for more than a month after the boy head-butted his mother as he played after breastfeeding.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? But things have taken a strange turn in Maine.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? Tomorrow: The New York Times published a front-page story about the study that was, mostly, very good.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

am proud to serve on a special committee of the Philadelphia City Council examining the child welfare system in that city. It includes the reflections of a reporter who shows a rare willingness to grapple with ambiguity, complexity and nuance in covering child welfare. We released our report last week.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

(The agencies call it “child support” but listen closely at 36:23 in, and you’ll hear Imprint editor John Kelly use the R-word :-)) The interview starts at 16:40 in. Commission on Civil Rights says that state needs more safeguards and transparency for such algorithms.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Also in New York City, Black Agenda Radio interviews Anne Venhuizen of The Bronx Defenders about their big win against the family police – successfully suing the family police agency for tearing a child from her mother at birth because the mother smoked marijuana. The interview starts at 27:15 in. ● I have a blog post about it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

She said her children were mercilessly teased and bullied after caseworkers came to interview them at school, to the point where she transferred all of them to different schools. said in court papers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent. As a child, she reported drug use in her home to the child welfare agency with the hope it would improve her situation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In child welfare, we can’t speak truth to power until we speak truth to CASA. The most sacred cow in American child welfare harms the children it is intended to help. The Imprint has an interview with MJ Jihad who founded MJ Consulting “to be doing whatever it takes to have these children remain within their birth family.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. That’s not because they want to hurt children, of course. That is almost never true.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

In an interview with Salon about her new book, Torn Apart , Prof. The propaganda machine around saving Black children from their families has been very effective, and I think there are a lot of white liberals who want to believe this story: We have a child welfare system that's saving Black children from dysfunctional homes.

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Center for Child Protection

MAY 28, 2024

Interview Support Specialist. Shanna brings over 15 years of expertise in the Child Welfare System, with 12 years at the Department of Family and Protective Services. Shanna brings over 15 years of expertise in the Child Welfare System, with 12 years at the Department of Family and Protective Services. The last 10 years.

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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! Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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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. . ● Among those quoted in the story: Kelley Fong, whose new book, Investigating Families has been called by Prof. Martin Guggenheim “the best book of its kind I’ve ever read.”

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The latest round of joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) will, in particular, look at how councils, relevant health bodies, the police and probation protect and promote the welfare of unborn children and those aged 0-7. Children’s welfare is promoted and protected through effective and timely responses to adult victims of domestic abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Recent news stories illustrate both the terrible harm Kentucky’s “child welfare” system inflicts upon its most vulnerable children and the root cause. In more than half the “unsubstantiated” cases the children were not even interviewed before the cases were closed and their claims dismissed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In back-to-back interviews on public radio’s Here and Now , the head of the agency gives his spin – and then Joyce McMillan of JMAC for Families tells the real story to anchor Deepa Fernandes, who, by the way, has done some excellent reporting of her own on this topic. ● You know, the report the agency tried to suppress?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This is what America's "child welfare" systems call a success story: A family is victimized by a false allegation of child abuse. In an interview, in the presence of someone from the program, they praise the program. After they are cleared, they miss one doctor's appointment for their child, so they are accused again.

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