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. Youth with lived experiences in foster care face countless challenges, even when the abuse finally stops – one way or another.
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).
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Child Welfare Monitor
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
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.
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.”
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
According to the story, Toscano’s husband was also cited for substance abuse, according to DCF records she shared with the Globe. It is a symptom of the culture of contempt for families and a lust for child removal that has characterized Massachusetts child welfare for decades. This is not an aberration.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Under the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, states are supposed to make “active efforts” to keep families together, a higher standard than the “reasonable efforts” required un federal law (but almost universally ignored ) for other families. More substantive legislation already has been defeated.
Child Welfare Monitor
JULY 8, 2024
Supporters of the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), which passed in 2018, said that declining foster care counts would result from providing support to parents who needed help to address the problems (like substance abuse, mental illness and poor parenting skills) that led to their maltreatment of their children.
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