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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Pete Buttigieg faces the family police
In media, the incident is being treated largely as some kind of bizarre outlier and a sign of the increasing ugliness and polarization of our politics. That’s largely how Buttigieg himself framed it. But perhaps the most important lesson in all of this is that it is not an outlier. Not by a longshot.
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Without ever intending it, New Mexico’s governor has made it more likely that vulnerable children will die – and used an Orwellian justification
The evidence is overwhelming that, for all sorts of reasons, some of those children the governor and her allies claim to have saved will die prematurely. Others will suffer other grievous harm. It will happen because they were taken needlessly.
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What happens when the family police and their enablers in politics and journalism treat impoverished children and their families as sub-human? A story in The New Yorker has some answers.
Perhaps the most important contribution the New Yorker story makes, and what makes it so relevant everywhere, is the way it brings home the inherent trauma of removal, trauma that lasts long after the children are back home.
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