Friday, April 25, 2025

NCCPR in Source NM: Torrez’s CYFD investigation will fail if it leaves people out

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A child welfare expert weighs in on latest effort to reform NM’s foster system   New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez says he’s going t...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 22

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  ● Kansas has its own special, ugly little version of hidden foster care. I have a blog post on How the Kansas “child welfare” agency mak...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Mass. family police try an end-run around the State Legislature on child welfare and drug use

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But don’t worry, the “cannamoms” will still be safe The Massachusetts family police agency, the Department of Children and Families, recen...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

How the Kansas “child welfare” agency makes hundreds of foster children “disappear.”

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Even the Wizard of Oz couldn’t do that. But at last, we’re getting a peek behind the curtain.   Seventeen years after we first raised the is...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 15, 2025

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● The family policing system in Philadelphia tears apart families at the second highest rate among America’s largest cities, even when rates...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

West Virginia does NOT underspend on “child welfare” – it MIS-spends

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West Virginia probably spends on child welfare at a rate anywhere from 9% to 44% above the national average.   All posts in this series a...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 8, 2025

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● I’ve never before seen a foster-care story get a “push notice” from The New York Times . But this one did. That’s what happens when a cou...