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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Foster-care panic in Silicon Valley: Tragically, in Santa Clara County, California, children DID die of child abuse before 2023
Of course, no one literally said that there were no child abuse deaths before 2023. Instead, those pushing the take-the-child-and-run response to recent fatalities engaged in what should be called “inference peddling.”
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Did a media-fueled foster-care panic contribute to a child’s death in Silicon Valley?
Bad journalism and political demagoguery have combined to set off what is probably the worst foster-care panic anywhere in America. As a result, all children in Santa Clara County, California, are less safe.
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Number of foster children in Maine declines – from obscene down to merely outrageous
Also: ● Part of the decline isn’t even real – the news story reporting the decline left 143 children out. ● When it comes to the least harmful form of foster care, kinship foster care, Maine’s record is getting worse. One of the many reasons Maine has one of the saddest recent child welfare histories…
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