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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Child welfare in New York: Beware of a backdoor bailout for private foster care agencies
If the latest scheme becomes law, no matter how abominably agencies allow the children in their care to be treated, and how much that jacks up their insurance premiums, they need never change, secure in the knowledge that taxpayers will pick up the tab.
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Since the child welfare establishment keeps telling us there’s no racism in their field, there must be some other explanation for this:
Compare and contrast:
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Arizona governor robs poor families to give middle-class foster parents a giant pay raise
Fresh from giving a giant rate increase to a group home operator (and generous campaign donor) with a questionable record, Hobbs is lavishing an even bigger rate increase – 50% — on state foster parents, who already do quite well.
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