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In Kansas, an agency that institutionalized a six-year-old is looking for a bailout Stock photo from Pixabay Add Kansas to the list of states where private foster care agencies are looking for a bailout to cover high insuran...

ICYMI: KS private #fostercare agency in state of self-proclaimed “pandemonium” blames shortage of foster homes – of course. It couldn’t possibly have to do with KS tearing apart families at double – maybe much more – the national average www.nccprblog.org/2025/11/in-k... #childabuse #childwelfare

In Kansas, an agency that institutionalized a six-year-old is looking for a bailout Stock photo from Pixabay Add Kansas to the list of states where private foster care agencies are looking for a bailout to cover high insuran...

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: In Kansas, a #fostercare agency that institutionalized a six-year-old is looking for a bailout. www.nccprblog.org/2025/11/in-k... #childabuse

In Kansas, an agency that institutionalized a six-year-old is looking for a bailout Stock photo from Pixabay Add Kansas to the list of states where private foster care agencies are looking for a bailout to cover high insuran...

ICYMI: Leader of a KS #fostercare agency describes conditions in own agency as “pandemonium;” tells of 6 yr old sleeping in their office for 48 nights before being institutionalized. Now she wants a taxpayer bailout because insurance premiums are going up www.nccprblog.org/2025/11/in-k...

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Nov 4, 2025 ● Research overwhelmingly shows that, almost always, the least harmful form of foster care, by far, is kinship foster care – placement with ...

Our weekly roundup of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2025/11/nccp...

In Kansas, an agency that institutionalized a six-year-old is looking for a bailout Stock photo from Pixabay Add Kansas to the list of states where private foster care agencies are looking for a bailout to cover high insuran...

KS private #fostercare agency in state of self-proclaimed “pandemonium” blames shortage of foster homes – of course. It couldn’t possibly have to do with KS tearing apart families at double – maybe much more – the national average www.nccprblog.org/2025/11/in-k... #childabuse #childwelfare

In Kansas, an agency that institutionalized a six-year-old is looking for a bailout Stock photo from Pixabay Add Kansas to the list of states where private foster care agencies are looking for a bailout to cover high insuran...

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: In Kansas, a #fostercare agency that institutionalized a six-year-old is looking for a bailout. www.nccprblog.org/2025/11/in-k... #childabuse

Foster care advocate arrested on charges of child abuse and neglect, OSBI investigates A woman who started a foundation to help foster kids aging out of the system was arrested on charges for child endangerment, child abuse and neglect.

Today’s reminder: In #childwelfare the horror stories go in ALL directions: ktul.com/news/local/f... #childabuse #fostercare

In Kansas, an agency that institutionalized a six-year-old is looking for a bailout Stock photo from Pixabay Add Kansas to the list of states where private foster care agencies are looking for a bailout to cover high insuran...

Leader of a KS #fostercare agency describes conditions in her own agency as “pandemonium;” tells of 6 yr old sleeping in their office for 48 nights before being institutionalized. Now she wants a taxpayer bailout because insurance premiums are going up www.nccprblog.org/2025/11/in-k...

#CASAsoWhite: Our annual Halloween reminder to CASA: No, it’s not a good idea to raise money by holding a talent show with a blackface act. (And yes, one CASA chapter actually did that.) We suggest that the National office for the Court-Appointed Special Advocates program use this item from  The Daily Show  as a training vi...

Our annual Halloween reminder to CASA: No, it’s not a good idea to raise money by holding a talent show with a blackface act. (And yes, one CASA chapter actually did that.) www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/casa... #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare

Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/nccp...

More than 80 calls for service to group home years before death of Arizona girl, reports show The Gila County Sheriff's Office tells 12News they continue to turn up new leads but have yet to identify a suspect.

Today’s reminder: In #childwelfare the horror stories go in ALL directions: www.12news.com/article/news... #childabuse #fostercare

Death at an early age: A Swedish study finds it’s FOUR TIMES more likely for those who’ve been in foster care Our entire massive child welfare surveillance state – a system so omnipresent that it will investigate the families of one-third of all Amer...

ICYMI: One of the most important studies in #childwelfare: NCCPR Blog: Next time anyone invokes #childabuse fatalities to panic us into throwing even more kids into #fostercare, show them this study of where children are *really* more likely to die www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/deat...

Death at an early age: A Swedish study finds it’s FOUR TIMES more likely for those who’ve been in foster care Our entire massive child welfare surveillance state – a system so omnipresent that it will investigate the families of one-third of all Amer...

NCCPR Blog: You know how those justifying the #childwelfare surveillance state always invoke #childabuse deaths? A new study suggests that falling for that rhetoric is what *really* may cause more children to die. www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/deat... #fostercare

Death at an early age: A Swedish study finds it’s FOUR TIMES more likely for those who’ve been in foster care Our entire massive child welfare surveillance state – a system so omnipresent that it will investigate the families of one-third of all Amer...

ICYMI One of the most important studies in the field: NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Death at an early age: Swedish study shows it’s more than FOUR TIMES more likely when children were in #fostercare-and no, the foster youth did *not* have worse problems to begin with. www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/deat...

Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/nccp...

Death at an early age: A Swedish study finds it’s FOUR TIMES more likely for those who’ve been in foster care Our entire massive child welfare surveillance state – a system so omnipresent that it will investigate the families of one-third of all Amer...

NCCPR Blog: You know how those justifying the #childwelfare surveillance state always invoke #childabuse deaths? A new study suggests that falling for that rhetoric is what *really* may cause more children to die. www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/deat... #fostercare

Death at an early age: A Swedish study finds it’s FOUR TIMES more likely for those who’ve been in foster care Our entire massive child welfare surveillance state – a system so omnipresent that it will investigate the families of one-third of all Amer...

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Death at an early age: Swedish study shows it’s more than FOUR TIMES more likely when children were in #fostercare - and no, the foster youth did *not* have worse problems to begin with. www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/deat...

Death at an early age: A Swedish study finds it’s FOUR TIMES more likely for those who’ve been in foster care Our entire massive child welfare surveillance state – a system so omnipresent that it will investigate the families of one-third of all Amer...

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Next time anyone invokes #childabuse fatalities to panic us into throwing even more kids into #fostercare, show them this study of where children are *really* more likely to die www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/deat...

Police report: 11-year-old under CPS care was abducted but escaped An 11-year-old living in a hotel with CPS workers was taken by a man now charged with indecency with a child and trafficking. The girl escaped hours later, but no one had noticed she was gone.

Today’s reminder: In #childwelfare the horror stories go in ALL directions: www.tpr.org/criminal-jus... #childabuse #fostercare

Death at an early age: A Swedish study finds it’s FOUR TIMES more likely for those who’ve been in foster care Our entire massive child welfare surveillance state – a system so omnipresent that it will investigate the families of one-third of all Amer...

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Swedish study: Foster youth more than FOUR TIMES more likely to die by age 20 than children judges left in their own homes. And no, the #fostercare youth did *not* have worse problems to begin with. www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/deat... #childabuse

Lessons from Hawaii’s “Lord of the Flies” foster home It went on for decades. Rampant sexual abuse in the Hawaii foster home of John Teixeira. Caseworkers failed to check on the children. Not on...

ICYMI: What can we learn from @civilbeat.bsky.social 's superb 4-part investigative series on rampant #childabuse in a Hawaii foster home? For starters, look at why some of the children were taken from their homes in the first place: www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/less... #fostercare #childwelfare

Lessons from Hawaii’s “Lord of the Flies” foster home It went on for decades. Rampant sexual abuse in the Hawaii foster home of John Teixeira. Caseworkers failed to check on the children. Not on...

Hawaii caseworker when warned of #chidabuse in a #fostercare home: “When you’re looking for a foster home for teenage boys, you take what you can get.” @Civilbeat exposed the consequences: www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/less... #childwelfare

A take-the-child-and-run approach to child welfare makes kids less safe | Guest opinion Faced with horrifying child abuse deaths, often in cases that were well known to child protective services agencies, there are two ways to respond: Determine what went wrong case-by-case and do the ha...

Thanks @richmond.com for publishing our commentary on how VA's Secretary of Health and Human Resources is getting #childwefare all wrong and pursuing an approach that makes children less safe #childabuse #fostercare richmond.com/opinion/colu... (There's a paywall)

Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/nccp...

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Today’s reminder: In #childwelfare the horror stories go in ALL directions: news.azpm.org/s/100631-san... #childabuse #fostercare

Lessons from Hawaii’s “Lord of the Flies” foster home It went on for decades. Rampant sexual abuse in the Hawaii foster home of John Teixeira. Caseworkers failed to check on the children. Not on...

Hawaii caseworker when warned of #chidabuse in a #fostercare home: “When you’re looking for a foster home for teenage boys, you take what you can get.” @civilbeat.bsky.social exposed the consequences: www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/less... #childwelfare

Lessons from Hawaii’s “Lord of the Flies” foster home It went on for decades. Rampant sexual abuse in the Hawaii foster home of John Teixeira. Caseworkers failed to check on the children. Not on...

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, write no evil in the case file. That’s how #childabuse in #fostercare is treated in Hawaii – and everywhere else. www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/less...

Lessons from Hawaii’s “Lord of the Flies” foster home It went on for decades. Rampant sexual abuse in the Hawaii foster home of John Teixeira. Caseworkers failed to check on the children. Not on...

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Lessons from Hawaii’s “Lord of the Flies” foster home www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/less... #fostercare #childabuse

Lessons from Hawaii’s “Lord of the Flies” foster home It went on for decades. Rampant sexual abuse in the Hawaii foster home of John Teixeira. Caseworkers failed to check on the children. Not on...

What can we learn from @civilbeat.bsky.social 's superb 4-part investigative series on rampant #childabuse in a Hawaii foster home? For starters, look at why some of the children were taken from their homes in the first place: www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/less... #fostercare #childwelfare

“Child welfare” in North Carolina: Take away poor people’s children. Pay strangers $100,000 to raise them. Anybody out there know any Hollywood agents? ‘Cause I have a great idea for a film script:  Scene 1:   Two couples are sitting around a ...

ICYMI: In NC, 1/3 of children torn from parents are thrown into foster care because of housing issues. But NC is contributing taxpayer $ to a program that pays #fostercare parent couples $100,000 a year – plus free housing! www.nccprblog.org/2025/10/chil... #childwelfare #childabuse