NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Courts in New York, Texas, Arizona and at least 11 other states demand that fathers control the mothers of their children, punish fathers who dont and, worst of all, deprive children of loving parents who have done them no harm. New Yorks highest court is being asked to put a stop to it. A New York City mother, known in court papers as Ms.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2024

In Oregon, "child welfare" has become a pathetic game of whack-a-mole. They also revealed that Oregons family police agency (a more accurate term than child welfare agency) knew about the abuse for at least 18 months and did nothing. Looks like lawmakers are about to take another whack. They can set the terms for how theyre regulated.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 19, 2025

But Burkhammer wants to prohibit West Virginias family police agency (a more accurate term than child welfare agency) from screening out any report from a mandated reporter and they make the overwhelming majority of reports. So once again, a failure of child welfare is worsened by a failure of journalism. That is demonstrably false.

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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.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado? The child welfare system for the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) oversees child welfare practices, policies and funding. Will county child welfare staff follow a family protection plan?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

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. Because when it comes to the problems plaguing “child welfare” wrongful removal drives everything else – including caseworker turnover. This is not an aberration.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Kin or relatives are almost always the first resource that child welfare staff will explore if a child needs a safe living environment, even temporarily. It is also the value of child welfare in Colorado to honor all children/youths cultural norms and values in their placements, including staying with family whenever possible.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

To find child welfare offices in Colorado, visit the Contact Your County Human Services Department website for county specific information. Are there resources to help my family or kin take care of my children for more than a day or two through child welfare involvement? Caseworkers can help families make a communication plan.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Building Evidence and Scaling Impact: The Role of Logic Models in Colorado’s Child Welfare Efforts Since the fall of 2022, the Colorado Implementation Science Unit (CISU) has been partnering with communities across Colorado to support the development, implementation, and evaluation of child welfare/maltreatment prevention (..)

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 28, 2025

IASSW President, Antoinette Lombard, was invited to speak at the ICSW International Conference on Participation, Social Welfare, and Local Administration in Times of AI, held in Ronda, Spain, from April 2425, 2025. ” As part of a distinguished panel alongside leaders from ICSW and IFSW, Prof. .”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

The Maine State Capitol Things keep getting worse in Maine, a state that once was on the verge of having a model child welfare system. The story notes that even the states child welfare ombudsman mentions in her latest report that she is concerned about the shortage of defense attorneys.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To read the account on CR’s website you’d think their suit turned a dreadful, failing “child welfare” system into a shining success story. But just four years later, the Tennessee Department of Child Services, their family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) has opened a bunch of new ones.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Researchers hope to ultimately determine if monthly cash gifts over the course of a year prevent future involvement with the Illinois child welfare system by randomly assigning 800 families who are receiving services through the Intact Family Services program to receive a monthly stipend.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

Minnesota’s use of these factors to support a child’s removal and/or ongoing separation due to alleged neglect discriminately and disproportionately impacts Black families who are overrepresented in Minnesota’s child welfare system for neglect-related allegations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Yes, it’s this guy: It’s tough being part of America’s “child welfare” establishment these days. Americans are catching on to the harm done by a massive child welfare surveillance state that falsely equates child removal with child safety, and investigates the homes of more than half of all Black children. Well, of course!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s the real message behind a monthly newsletter touting “the good stuff in child welfare.” It’s called “The Good Stuff in Child Welfare” and it comes from The Field Center. Greeson, there is no “good stuff” in “child welfare” as it exists today You and the rest of the Scooby Gang share responsibility for that fact.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At last: A group involved in oversight of Maine child welfare that shows a real understanding of the problems. The Maine Child Welfare Advisory Panel (MCWAP) Citizen Review Panel has produced a report with six recommendations. Note that often these programs have the full support of state or local child welfare agencies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The fundamental fact of American “child welfare” is that if you’re not white and affluent the system will discriminate against you. That’s not unique to “child welfare” of course, but the field seems to be “in denial” about it to an extraordinary degree.) The case also illustrates bigger problems. ? Similarly, the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” There are many such groups. Oh, don’t get me wrong.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), the International Council of Social Welfare (ICSW), and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) have jointly announced the theme for the 2025 World Social Work Day: ‘Strengthening Intergenerational Solidarity for Enduring Wellbeing’.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

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. We wouldn’t even allow a slight deviation from the rules. Lawyers would scream.

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CO4Kids

APRIL 28, 2025

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Join the Colorado Foster Youth in Transition to Adulthood grant advisory committee HB 21-1094 the Foster Youth in Transition Program was signed into law on June 25, 2021.

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International Federation of Social Workers

APRIL 12, 2025

IFSW is pleased to announce that President Joachim Mumba will be participating in a distinguished panel discussion at the upcoming ICSW International Conference on Participation, Social Welfare and Local Administration […]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The big national takeaway is that these data – once again – refute the racist myth about COVID-19 and “child welfare.” The federal government has released state-by-state data for the number of children taken from their parents in FFY 2021 (yes, they always run about a year late). And NCCPR has updated our rate-of-removal index.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And, concerning solutions: So child welfare experts that I've spoken to have pointed to a few changes. Other states are as bad or worse, but, as it happens, the history of “child welfare” failure in Massachusetts is particularly well-documented. She told NPR: So you have a number of problems. How did Massachusetts get into this mess?

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National Casa Gal

JUNE 15, 2023

The post Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children. The 7-2 Supreme Court decision is an enormous victory for Native children, Native families, and Tribal Nations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 2, 2022

It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. It’s why all those plans for kinder, gentler family policing won’t do much good – and might even backfire. Connecticut is a case in point.

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National Casa Gal

MARCH 28, 2023

The post Celebrating women leaders in child welfare — a message from our CEO appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children. In March we celebrate Women’s History Month, and in this month, we honor the pioneering work of the late Carmen Ray-Bettineski.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America.

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National Casa Gal

JULY 30, 2024

The post Focus on back to school; education, CASA/GAL volunteers, and children in the child welfare system appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children. CASA and GAL volunteers are trained to gather information to advocate for children’s best interest in the court and in the classroom.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

They even acknowledged their own role in “contributing to racism in the legal field” in general and “within the child welfare legal field in particular…” Offhand, I can’t think of an organization that says “establishment” more than the American Bar Association. The topic is “anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.”

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 30, 2024

Read The New Social Worker’s book review of Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition by Alan Dettlaff. Reviewed by Stephen Cummings.

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Pinto was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The academy is an honorific society of distinguished scholars and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare through high-impact work that advances social good. Professor Rogério M.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Watch the bodycam footage – but don’t watch it quite yet, since it might prompt you to jump to a conclusion that some of America’s leading child welfare “scholars” want you to know couldn’t possibly correct. Peoples, ( OK, you can look now) you might be tempted to conclude that there is racial bias in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Shanta Trivedi teaches and writes about the child welfare system at the University of Baltimore School of Law. This bill would establish that constitutional protections apply in child welfare investigations and would allow parents to make informed decisions throughout the process. Its well worth watching the hearing, available here.

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National Casa Gal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 is a federal law that recognizes tribal sovereignty and governs jurisdiction over the removal of Native American (Indian) children from their families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. As she has before, she embraces the Big Lie of American child welfare – that child safety, or the even broader, more amorphous and biased standard of child “wellbeing” - and family preservation are opposites that need to be “balanced.”

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