ICYMI: NCCPR in the Michigan Advance: Forget the ceremonies: In Michigan, every day is Family Destruction Day https://michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/forget-the-ceremonies-in-michigan-every-day-is-family-destruction-day/ #fostercare #childwelfare #childabuse #MIpol, #milegislature, #mileg, #mipolitics

ICYMI: By firing their director, CASA of LA shows its true colors – and, as usual with CASA, one color dominates www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/la-c... #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare

NCCPR in the Michigan Advance: In Michigan, children “age out” of #fostercare with no home at all at a rate nearly double the national average https://michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/forget-the-ceremonies-in-michigan-every-day-is-family-destruction-day/ #fostercare #childwelfare #childabuse #MIpol, #milegislature, #mileg, #mipolitics

NCCPR in the Michigan Advance: In Michigan, more #fostercare children are adopted than return to their own homes https://michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/forget-the-ceremonies-in-michigan-every-day-is-family-destruction-day/ #childwelfare #childabuse #MIpol, #milegislature, #mileg, #mipolitics

NCCPR in the Michigan Advance: In Michigan if you’re torn from the arms of your parents as a child, odds are nearly 2 in 3 you’re *never* going home https://michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/forget-the-ceremonies-in-michigan-every-day-is-family-destruction-day/ #fostercare #childwelfare #childabuse #MIpol, #milegislature, #mileg, #mipolitics

NCCPR in the Michigan Advance: Forget the ceremonies: In Michigan, every day is Family Destruction Day https://michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/forget-the-ceremonies-in-michigan-every-day-is-family-destruction-day/ #fostercare #childwelfare #childabuse #MIpol, #milegislature, #mileg, #mipolitics

Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/07/nccpr-news-and-commentary-round-up-week.html #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare

Children’s Division director in MO must think her state is a cesspool of depravity, if tearing apart families at a rate 50% above the national average still isn’t enough! (Good news, Missouri, you’re not.) https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/cranking-up-foster-care-to-prison.html #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare #MOLeg, #Mohouse

Missouri Children’s Division director slimes her predecessor suggesting he was fanatical about keeping children out of #fostercare But the data show Missouri is fanatical about putting children IN foster care https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/cranking-up-foster-care-to-prison.html #MOLeg, #Mohouse, #mosenate

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: There are more than 900 chapters of CASA. For a few years, one was led by a Black woman with lived experience. Now the number is back to zero https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/la-casa-does-most-casa-thing-in-world.html #fostercare #childabuse

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Los Angeles CASA does the most CASA thing in the world: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/la-casa-does-most-casa-thing-in-world.html #fostercare #childabuse

An LA CASA volunteer said she was “triggered” when the program director used the words “social justice” or “racial justice.” Instead of deciding the problem was with the volunteer, they … well, it’s CASA so I’m sure you can guess https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/la-casa-does-most-casa-thing-in-world.html #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare

By firing their director, CASA of LA shows its true colors – and, as usual with CASA, one color dominates https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/la-casa-does-most-casa-thing-in-world.html #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare

ICYMI: LA CASA just did the most CASA thing in the world - and, once again, told the world what CASA is really all about Check out this story from The Imprint: https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/casa-la-cuts-ties-with-leader/262197 #fostercare #childwelfare #childabuse

ICYMI: Instead of creating “guardrails” for hidden #fostercare, as lawmakers promised, Virginia just created two versions of this awful practice. They need to go back and fix it: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/virginias-shame-when-children-are-torn.html #childabuse #childwelfare

ICYMI: In Virginia, more children torn from their families by #childwelfare agencies will be adopted, usually by total strangers, than allowed to return to their own parents. (CT, MI and OK too, by the way). https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/virginias-shame-when-children-are-torn.html #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare

Points of no return: VA is worst, but in NC, MI, CT, AL, OH and TX about 2/3 of children torn from their parents probably will *never* go home – unless they find their way back as adults https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/points-of-no-return.html #fostercare #childwelfare #childabuse #agingout

LA CASA just did the most CASA thing in the world - and, once again, told the world what CASA is really all about Check out this story from The Imprint: https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/casa-la-cuts-ties-with-leader/262197 #fostercare #childwelfare #childabuse

Instead of creating “guardrails” for hidden #fostercare, as lawmakers promised, Virginia just created two versions of this awful practice. They need to go back and fix it: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/virginias-shame-when-children-are-torn.html #childabuse #childwelfare

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Virginia’s shame: When children are torn from their parents here, nearly three in four may never go home – the worst record in the nation: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/virginias-shame-when-children-are-torn.html #childabuse #fostercare