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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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Carina was appointed to the Illinois Foster Care Council, the Cook County Child Death Review Board, and the Child Policy Board , giving Shelter an opportunity to shape child welfare policy in Illinois. The post With Your Support, We Accomplished So Much in Child Welfare Last Year! Our volunteer force is strong!

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2022

It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. There aren’t enough beds for little guys that need this level of care, and the child welfare system has to kind of figure out ‘how can we do the best with what we have?’”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The same scholar who claims predictive analytics in child welfare isn’t biased also signs on to an extremist agenda calling for an automatic, mandatory extra level of family police surveillance of thousands of impoverished families. She also misunderstands abolition and mocks the words of a Black child welfare activist. UPDATE, OCT.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Have you noticed something new about the “child welfare” establishment lately? Barth, you may recall, is the one who declared that – unlike any other profession in America, child welfare is 100% free of racial bias! He begins with this: Nice to see acknowledgment of the many ways that child welfare services do help support families.

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 30, 2024

Associate Professor Robert Ortega has joined the editorial board of Child Welfare. The peer-reviewed journal keeps readers abreast of the special problems facing millions of children, families, parents, caregivers and the child welfare professionals who serve them.

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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A “scholar” who insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare writes a “predictive analytics” algorithm for the State of California. Somehow, the contract to write a so-called “independent ethics review” of the algorithm is given to another “scholar” who also insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Even though we had fewer calls, the right calls were coming in and we got to the children who needed us,” the state’s Deputy Director of Child Welfare Practice and Programing, Lacey Andresen, told The Oregonian. So now that there are signs Oregon “child welfare” finally is making progress, two key questions remain: Will they keep it up?

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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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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

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

MARCH 29, 2024

The post Awareness months highlight struggles and improvements in child welfare appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children. By supporting families, advocating for family-friendly policies, and fostering safe communities, we contribute to a world where children and youth can grow, learn, and dream freely.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2022

Multiple organizations in Maine – but with the lead organizations dominated by private “providers” have put out a document they’re calling “A Framework for Child Welfare Reform” in that state. They’ve been led, or rather misled, by the state’s child welfare “ombudsman,” Christine Alberi. And that’s the key problem.

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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 28, 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. ? Wednesday: 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

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Child welfare systems fail all over the country. Over less than a quarter century Maine child welfare went from national scandal to national model to national disgrace. For a few years, Maine was one of the very few places getting child welfare right. But what is happening in Maine may be the saddest story of all.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Yesterday, in a post about “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work, I noted that Alan Detlaff of the University of Houston, who has dedicated his career to fighting racism in family policing (a more accurate term than “child welfare”) had been ousted as the Dean of the university’s Graduate College of Social Work.

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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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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

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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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

But I should explain at the top why this commentary is on a blog about the “child welfare” system. AFA’s members include some of the most strident supporters of tearing apart more families and some of those deepest in denial about racism in child welfare. She also condemned the Indian Child Welfare Act. They also include Prof.

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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.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Attention child welfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world. In the past, this event was essentially a garden party for the child welfare establishment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The name Colorado uses for its child welfare database is sadly appropriate for the system itself,” said NCCPR Executive Director Richard Wexler. When it comes to child welfare, Colorado trails.” Wexler was joined by Maleeka Jihad, founder of Colorado’s leading family advocacy organization, the MJCF Coalition.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They urged the Supreme Court to “uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act’s constitutionality in all respects.”

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International Federation of Social Workers

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Japan College of Social Work (JCSW) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) are proud to announce the upcoming International Seminar on Social Welfare in Asia and the […]

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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.

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