The members of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform have encountered the child welfare system in their professional capacities. Through NCCPR, we work to make that system better serve America’s most vulnerable children by trying to change policies concerning child abuse, foster care and family preservation.
NCCPR ADVOCATES FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE. WE REGRET THAT WE CANNOT PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN DEALING WITH INDIVIDUAL CASES.
The NCCPR Child Welfare Blog And Media Response Line
The NCCPR Child Welfare Blog offers news and commentary on child welfare, and media coverage of child welfare, usually updated at least weekly. You also can follow us on Bluesky and Facebook. And click here for information on the NCCPR (almost) 24/7 Media Response Line.
NCCPR Issue Papers
All our Issue Papers addressing topics around child welfare, including child safety, poverty, racial bias, substance use, foster care, family preservation, mandatory reporting and child abuse fatalities:
Read our Issue Paper on Foster Care vs. Family Preservation: The Track Record on Safety
Read our Issue Paper on Foster Care Panics
Read our Issue Paper on Who Is In The System
How You Can Help
It’s a question we get all the time: “How can I help change the “child welfare” system?”
We’ve compiled a list of suggestions covering how you can learn, engage with lawmakers and media, and make change.
What Others Say About NCCPR
Comments on NCCPR’s work from journalists and experts:
“[NCCPR], really, was a source of grounding for me for years, as a reporter and a writer.”
“Everyone concerned about the issue — including members of the news media — should look at…the website of the Virginia-based National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, an advocacy organization that regularly names and shames the people playing politics with child welfare.”
Video: Understanding Child Welfare
In this one brilliant 11-minute video, the former director of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services tells you just about everything you need to know about child welfare and foster care in America.
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Highlights from the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
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The “logic” behind America’s massive child welfare surveillance state is the equivalent of a house of cards. Thanks to a new study, it just collapsed.
A study of 3.4 million records over 13 years concludes: “Child maltreatment mortality rates did not appear to decrease with higher foster care entry rates or increase with decreasing foster care entry rates.”
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Child welfare in Georgia: What’s the difference between “Driving While Black” and “Driving While a White Prominent Lobbyist and Former Campaign Policy Advisor to the Governor”?
Just as I’ve suggested we apply the Betty Ford standard to drug use by parents, let’s also apply what seems to be the Candice Broce standard to any so-called “failure to protect” case.
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Missouri’s shame: Rampant confusion of poverty with neglect, and skyrocketing numbers of children torn from their homes, is exposed to the nation by The Nation
The Nation tells the story of one child denied any contact with his mother for months after being taken because the mother’s rental apartment didn’t have an air conditioner. The mother explained that “To get her son back, a judge told her, she had to have decent housing, a job, and $3,000 in a bank…
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