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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everybody knows you get what you pay for. Feds give states billions for #fostercare, far less for better, safer #childwelfare alternatives. Today United Family Advocates released a comprehensive cost-neutral bipartisan plan to change that: unitedfamilyadvocates.org/wp-content/u...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m proud to have been part of the team of bipartisan child and family advocates working on this comprehensive plan to reverse the awful financial incentives in #childwelfare that encourage #fostercare and discourage better, safer alternatives unitedfamilyadvocates.org/wp-content/u...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

From excellent story in @themainemonitor.org about state’s highest court refusing to allow #childwelfare agency to take child from his mom forever because Mom can’t afford housing. Analysis and link to story on the NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: www.nccprblog.org/2026/08/main... #fostercare #childabuse

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

ICYMI: Why it’s so easy for some New Mexico journalists and lawmakers to love the state’s child-confiscation-at-birth policy: www.nccprblog.org/2026/07/chil... #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Why it’s so easy for some New Mexico journalists and lawmakers to love the state’s child-confiscation-at-birth policy: www.nccprblog.org/2026/07/chil... #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Hollie McKay of the New York Sun cuts to the heart of the @PeteButtigieg false #childabuse allegation story (and thanks for including NCCPR’s perspective): www.nysun.com/article/butt...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

ICYMI: A very brief NCCPR #Childwelfare Blog: Residential treatment: When the stories speak for themselves www.nccprblog.org/2026/06/resi... In fact, I think I’ll just leave the entire post right here: #fostercare #childabuse #childwelfare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A very brief NCCPR #Childwelfare Blog: Residential treatment: When the stories speak for themselves www.nccprblog.org/2026/06/resi... In fact, I think I’ll just leave the entire post right here: #fostercare #childabuse #childwelfare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: There’s been real improvement when it comes to the number of children Maine traps in #fostercare. But Maine is so awful that even with the improvement, it still holds children at more than double the national average www.nccprblog.org/2026/04/numb...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Two studies paint a stunning picture of #childwelfare failure and the dangers of #fostercare: www.nccprblog.org/2026/01/the-...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Two studies paint a stunning picture of #childwelfare failure and the dangers of #fostercare: www.nccprblog.org/2026/01/the-...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Our annual holiday reminder:

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: “Despicable” them. That’s just one of the choice words appellate court justices applied to the behavior of the New York City family police agency during oral argument last week. www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/chil... #childabuse #fostercare #domesticviolence

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

In a searing story in @thenation here’s what the former leader of the Missouri #childwelfare agency says about the current leadership: www.nccprblog.org/2025/11/miss... #fostercare #childwelfare #childabuse

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

ICYMI: NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Would you entrust any child to a bureaucracy so divorced from common humanity that it puts a sentence like this in its own press release? www.nccprblog.org/2025/08/chil... #fostercare #childabuse

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Would you entrust any child to a bureaucracy so divorced from common humanity that it puts a sentence like this in its own press release? www.nccprblog.org/2025/08/chil... #fostercare #childabuse

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

ICYMI: NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Meet the #childabuse pediatrician who says she’s never been wrong! (And she doesn’t seem too keen on any colleagues who might not share her self-assessment.) www.nccprblog.org/2025/07/prop... xxx #fostercare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: ProPublica’s #childabuse pediatrician exposé breaks new ground, revealing failures of medicine, government – and journalism: www.nccprblog.org/2025/07/prop... #fostercare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Hey journos who cover #childwelfare: Next time a parent says the #childwelfare agency lied about them, before you roll your eyes, please read this: www.nccprblog.org/2025/07/prop... #fostercare #childabuse

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

How a media-fueled #fostercare panic in Minnesota indirectly contributed to tragedies due to alleged misdiagnoses by a famed #childabuse pediatrician www.nccprblog.org/2025/07/prop... #childwelfare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Meet the #childabuse pediatrician who says she’s never been wrong! (And she doesn’t seem too keen on any colleagues who might not share her self-assessment.) www.nccprblog.org/2025/07/prop... xxx #fostercare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Am 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 www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/la-c... #fostercare #childwelfare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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: www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/virg... #childabuse #childwelfare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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: www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/virg... #childabuse #childwelfare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

A bill in the Maine Legislature would require judges to balance alleged harm of a home to the harm of #fostercare before tearing apart a family. This story from The Maine Monitor illustrates perfectly why it’s needed www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/in-m... #childwelfare #childabuse #mepolitics #meleg

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

ICYMI: NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: In Tennessee, here comes the new lawsuit, just like the old lawsuit: www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/chil... #childwelfare #fostercare #childabuse #tnleg, #tnpolitics, #tnpol, #tnhouse, #tnsenate, #VOLS

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

ICYMI: 25 years ago Marcia Lowry brought one of her #fostercare McLawsuits in Tennessee. It failed spectacularly How much did she learn? Last month she brought basically the same lawsuit – sometimes almost word for word! See if you can tell which is which: www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/chil... #tnleg

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

25 years ago, Marcia Lorwy’s Tennessee McLAwsuit ignored wrongful removal; the lawsuit failed. But a new lawsuit makes clear Marcia and A Better Childhood have learned nothing from that blunder www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/chil... #fostercare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Sure that whole “definition of insanity” line has become a cliché, but when you bring a #childwelfare lawsuit, it fails spectacularly and then you bring a lawsuit that’s almost identical – sometimes word for word! –what do you think is going to happen? www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/chil... #fostercare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: In Tennessee, here comes the new lawsuit, just like the old lawsuit: www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/chil... #childwelfare #fostercare #childabuse #tnleg, #tnpolitics, #tnpol, #tnhouse, #tnsenate, #VOLS

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

25 years ago Marcia Lowry brought one of her #fostercare McLawsuits in Tennessee. It failed spectacularly How much did she learn? Last month she brought basically the same lawsuit – sometimes almost word for word! See if you can tell which is which: www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/chil... #tnleg

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Get ready, Tennessee! Because in two days, on the NCCPR #childwelfare Blog, we'll debut a new game just for the Volunteer State! #fostercare #childabuse

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

In the Rhode Island Current, we add what the vice president of a #fostercare agency left out: rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/05/20/w... #childabuse #childwelfare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

In the Rhode Island Current, we add what the vice president of a #fostercare agency left out: rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/05/20/w... #childabuse #childwelfare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

ICYMI: 50 years after @nydailynews.com published “Big Money, Little Victims” a series about private agencies trapping kids in #fostercare to keep per diem payments flowing there are fewer little victims & payment system is changing. But more needs to change. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/13/h...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

ICYMI: The real harm of letting #childwelfare agencies into the confessional: Impoverished parents one less place to turn without risking being turned in to the family police because their poverty was confused with “neglect.” www.nccprblog.org/2025/05/that... #fostercare #childabuse

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

NYC has a harmful #childwelfare system; But it is less harmful than most others and less harmful than it used to be. That’s thanks to decades of hard work by family defenders and family advocates, and it started with a newspaper series 50 years ago today www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/13/h...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

50 years after @nydailynews.com published “Big Money, Little Victims” a series about private agencies trapping kids in #fostercare to keep per diem payments flowing, there are fewer little victims, & payment system is changing. But much more needs to change. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/13/h...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

NCCPR in Missouri Independent: The new head of the Missouri Children’s Division reportedly is busying herself handing out stickers. So here’s one that lawmakers should hand out to her: missouriindependent.com/2025/05/08/h...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

ICYMI: NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: How the Kansas “child welfare” agency makes hundreds of foster children “disappear.” Even the Wizard of Oz couldn’t do that. But at last, we’re getting a peek behind the curtain. www.nccprblog.org/2025/04/how-...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

ICYMI: NCCPR Blog: Kansas #childwelfare agency says hundreds of coercive separations of children from their families don’t count as #fostercare because they’re “police protective custody placements.” No wonder! Can’t you see how different they are? www.nccprblog.org/2025/04/how-...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Great interview - and coverage of FAMILY policing (#childwelfare) suffers from the same failings. Allow me to illustrate by slightly altering one sentence:

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

NCCPR Blog: Kansas #childwelfare agency says hundreds of coercive separations of children from their families don’t count as #fostercare because they’re “police protective custody placements.” No wonder! Can’t you see how different they are? www.nccprblog.org/2025/04/how-...

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

John Oliver said this about immigration raids. Can anyone think of any other government agency that pounds on people’s doors in the middle of the night, demands agency, and counts of those people not knowing their rights? Here’s a hint: www.nccprblog.org/2025/02/prof... #childwelfare #fostercare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

.@ACLUVermont alleges@VermontDCF maintains a secret docket of pregnant women, relies on a “network of informers” to plunder confidential records, spy on mothers & even seek custody before children are born. www.nccprblog.org/2025/01/the-... #childwelfare #fostercare #childabuse #vtpoli, #vtleg, #vt

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

NCCPR Blog: “The hospital staff were texting with [the #childwelfare agency] about the dilation of her cervix” Here’s what else one state allegedly did to a mother and her newborn. And her case was no aberration: www.nccprblog.org/2025/01/the-... #fostercare #childabuse

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Here’s what really good journalists do: 1. Pore over documents nobody reads, 2. Find the telling detail. 3. Add crucial context. From @emcahan's story in @RollingStone about pot, poverty and #childwelfare: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... #fostercare

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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Just to be clear @johannagreeson of @fieldcenter When you put out those unctuous cloying newsletters about the “good stuff” in #childwelfare we know THIS is what you’re really doing: nccprblog.org/2023/10/a-me... #childabuse

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