on #NationalAdoptionDay, who will stop to remember that for some children every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? www.nccprblog.org/2024/11/our-... #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare #familypreservation
Our annual call to end child welfare’s public celebration of family executions
Saturday, on “National Adoption Day, who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, ev...
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November 19, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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While others exploit #childabuse deaths to promote #fostercare panic, we help readers understand why they happen – and what really works to curb them. Check out our new Issue Paper: nccpr.org/nccpr-issue-... #childwelfare #familypreservation
NCCPR Issue Paper #17: Understanding Child Abuse Fatalities
They are the cases that horrify us the most – as they should: children killed by their own families in cases that were, in some way, “known to the system.” The knee-jerk response: Children known-to-t...
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July 9, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Kentucky's newly introduced House Bill 718 aims to transform the child welfare system by prioritizing family preservation and extending crucial support for youth aging out of foster care.
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#KY #FamilyPreservation #YouthTransitions #ChildProtection #CitizenPortal
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Kentucky Cabinet outlines child custody procedures and transition support for youth
Cabinet specifies child custody removal and transitional support procedures for eligible youth.
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February 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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#FamilyPreservation #KinKeepers #DNAMatters #GenerationalHealing #TraumaRecovery #TraumaHealing #CulturalConnections #Bloodlines #CommunityBuilding #AncestralTraditions #Heritage #BlackHistoryMonth #Reparations
February 15, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Posting this a day early because, let's face it, we're all going to have only one thing on our minds tomorrow: www.nccprblog.org/2024/11/nccp... #familypreservation #journalism #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare
NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending November 5, 2024
● COVID taught us that when the family police step back and community-based community-run support organizations step up, child abuse is redu...
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November 5, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Family preservation isn’t just about staying together—it’s about holding perpetrators accountable and supporting survivors. That’s what domestic abuse–informed practice looks like.
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Our Training — Safe & Together Institute
The Safe & Together Institute offers multiple levels of progressive training centered around domestic abuse-informed practice with the goal of informing organizational and systems change. With in-pers...
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July 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation #journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2024/08/nccp... #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare
NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Aug 27, 2024
● Reveal, the documentary series from the Center for Investigative Reporting begins its story about a powerful Utah family and a Native Amer...
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August 28, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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NCCPR in @TheImprintNews
on the dynamics – and harm – of #fostercare panic. imprintnews.org/opinion/fost... #childabuse #childwelfare #familypreservation
on the dynamics – and harm – of #fostercare panic. imprintnews.org/opinion/fost... #childabuse #childwelfare #familypreservation
Foster Care Panic in Minnesota? Not So Fast
Richard Wexler argues that a stronger presence of family and legal advocates has steeled Minnesota against a foster care panic
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April 1, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2025/07/nccp... #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare
NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending July 2, 2025
● A volunteer in the Los Angeles Court-Appointed Special Advocates program said she was “triggered” when the program director used the words...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation #journalism and commentary www.nccprblog.org/2024/10/nccp... #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare
NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending Oct. 14, 2024
● The Indianapolis Star exposes the warehousing of Indiana children in state family police agency offices, sometimes for weeks. The story ...
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October 15, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Florida's new House Bill 1405 is set to transform how runaway and at-risk youth are handled, prioritizing their rights with timely hearings and limited shelter stays.
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#FL #YouthHomelessness #FamilyPreservation #CitizenPortal #ChildWelfareReform
Learn more here!
#FL #YouthHomelessness #FamilyPreservation #CitizenPortal #ChildWelfareReform
Florida House enacts new child custody and shelter placement regulations
Florida House mandates timely hearings for children placed in shelters under new rules.
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March 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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It should be renamed to the gulf of human trafficking thanks to the US adoption system and ICE
#ice #america #gulfofmexico #adoption #humantrafficking #childtrafficking #familypreservation #fascism #trump2025 #gop #republicanparty #family #familyseparation this is their policy, they are at fault.
#ice #america #gulfofmexico #adoption #humantrafficking #childtrafficking #familypreservation #fascism #trump2025 #gop #republicanparty #family #familyseparation this is their policy, they are at fault.
February 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 12, 2025
● In his Reliable Sources newsletter last Friday, CNN media reporter Brian Stelter documents how the Trump Administration fans fear of crime...
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August 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I do the same thing. Seven, eight, and eleven years to go for my two littles' three older siblings who were separated. We kept the same countdown for my oldest's half-siblings. My half-siblings are all over 18yo now too.
#SiblingSeparations #FamilyReunification #FamilyPreservation #FamilyIsForever
#SiblingSeparations #FamilyReunification #FamilyPreservation #FamilyIsForever
"I am halfway through my sentence."
this is one of the passages in @gretchensisson.bsky.social's book RELINQUISHED that will always stay with me. 🥚
this is one of the passages in @gretchensisson.bsky.social's book RELINQUISHED that will always stay with me. 🥚
February 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation #journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2024/08/nccp...
NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 20, 2024
We start off this week with updates on two stories illustrating the biases and double standards of family policing : ● The Albany Times Un...
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August 21, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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Montana lawmakers are debating a groundbreaking bill that could reshape child welfare practices by prioritizing family preservation and emotional well-being during traumatic transitions.
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#MT #EmotionalWellBeing #MontanaChildWelfare #FamilyPreservation #ChildProtection
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Montana Legislature amends child protection laws for emergency services
Legislation updates emergency protective service protocols for child abuse and neglect cases.
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February 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Some #fostercare apologists admit anonymous #childabuse reports are almost always false. Their defense: Other categories of reports are almost as unreliable! www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/race... #childwelfare #familypreservation
Race, class and child welfare: AEI gets it wrong again
The Charles Murray faction of the extreme right offers up a remarkable collection of half-truths, straw men, and statistics abuse. "So you...
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June 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Montana's new Senate Bill 206 could redefine how the state protects at-risk children while balancing family rights—are we ready for this change?
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Montana legislature proposes emergency protective services for at-risk children
Montana's SB206 allows courts to grant immediate protection for children in danger.
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February 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Our new NCCPR Issue Paper on the failure of #mandatoryreporting of "#childabuse" nccpr.org/nccpr-issue-... #fostercare #familypreservation #childwelfare #familypolice
NCCPR Issue Paper #16: The Failure of Mandatory Reporting
Before termination of children’s rights to their parents (a more accurate term than “termination of parental rights”), before children are torn from the arms of their families and consigned to t...
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January 16, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary - including the trailer for #ToBeInvisible, a new documentary about family policing. #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare www.nccprblog.org/2024/03/nccp...
NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 26, 2024
● Any family caught up in the politics of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Massachusetts “Child Advocate” Maria Mossaides is in for hell. Ne...
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March 27, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 18, 2025
● Remember when Tennessee pulled over a couple for no good reason and then took away their children? In that one, the offense was Driving Wh...
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March 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I'm not re-typing a whole new Threads-style checklist of interests and hobbies. 😮💨😓
My special interests include (*but are not limited to & are subject to additions/subtractions at any time for any reason):
#Neurodivergent #Autodidactic #FormerGiftedKid #Eclectic #Curious #LifeLearner #InfoDump
My special interests include (*but are not limited to & are subject to additions/subtractions at any time for any reason):
#Neurodivergent #Autodidactic #FormerGiftedKid #Eclectic #Curious #LifeLearner #InfoDump
December 14, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/nccp...
NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending October 21, 2025
● Serial, the famous podcast shop that’s now part of The New York Times , is the latest to examine the enormous harm to children done by so...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Vast power differentials exist between prospective adopters and vulnerable mothers. Vast power differentials exist between adopters and our parents. Vast power differentials exist between us and our adoptive families. #adoption #coercion #powerdifferential #adopted #mothers #familypreservation
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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On the NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: We review 2023’s #fostercare journalism and commentary beginning with a year’s worth of reminders of how the #childabuse horror stories go in ALL directions. nccprblog.org/2023/12/in-c... #familypreservation
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
News and commentary from the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
concerning child abuse, child welfare, foster care, and family preservation.
https://nccprblog.org/2023/12/in-child-welfare-horror-stories-go-in.html…
December 27, 2023 at 6:19 PM
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