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Child Welfare Monitor
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
by Patty Flores I am grateful to be publishing this essay by a gifted and needed young voice in the child welfare space. She spent half of her life in foster care, struggling with substance abuse. She eventually graduated high school and enrolled in college while still incarcerated. Patty turned 18 years old in jail.
Child Welfare Monitor
JANUARY 10, 2025
by Marie Cohen This post was originally published on Child Welfare Monitor DC on December 9, 2024. Because I rarely post on that site, I am letting it expire and will include future DC-focused posts on Child Welfare Monitor. Thus, the increase in referrals may well be a sign of increasing maltreatment.
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Child Welfare Monitor
OCTOBER 5, 2024
As an illustration, I am reposting my 2022 review of Roberts’ most recent book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer Worl d. child welfare system. See my commentary on the abuse homicides of Rashid Bryant and Julissia Batties , for example).
Child Welfare Monitor
MARCH 16, 2025
by Marie Cohen Recognizing implicit bias in mandated reporting training is a national focus for addressing racial inequity in child welfare. The video introducing the section explains that implicit bias harms “families of color” in the child welfare system, without providing any evidence of such harm.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The reality is we are moving kids night to night, we’re driving kids across the state for one-night placements to get them to school, we’re putting bandages on situations.”… According to the story, Toscano’s husband was also cited for substance abuse, according to DCF records she shared with the Globe. This is not an aberration.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
A bill in New Hampshire effectively equates strong emotion with abuse. Texas dialed back the power of its family police agency (a more accurate term than child welfare agency). Under this bill, all this trauma could be inflicted anytime a caseworker concludes that a childs physical, emotional or psychological welfare is at risk.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
I single these stories out not because they are exceptionally awful - there’s far worse out there - but precisely because they are so typical of the journalism of child welfare. The stories blithely attribute West Virginia’s high rate of removal to the fact that “More than half entered the system because of a parent’s substance abuse.”
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