Thursday, March 31, 2011

Aboriginal Child Protection Case fails at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal

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The Canadian Association of Social Workers is reporting that "On March 14, 2011, the Canadian Human Rights (CHR) Tribunal dismissed on ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

More research on foster care impacts

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J.J. Doyle of MIT has again done an extensive review of whether foster care is good for children. He concludes not using a large data base a...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

The sad case of Nubia Barahona

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This is a child who died in Florida despite possible ways in which the child protection system may have saved her. Like so many cases before...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Willful Blindness in Child Protection

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I have spoken about Heffernan's recent book on willful blindness in a prior post. Its a rather amazing read and I again recommend it. Th...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Willful Blindness

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Margaret Heffernen's book Willful Blindness was published this past week. In it, there are lesson for those who work in and around child...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Interesting USA Data on foster care usage

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Childtrends databank has provided some new American data on foster care trends. They place the data in context helping us to see its importa...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Mental Disorders in Children

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When we talk about child protection issues, we see that there are high frequencies of mental disorders in children within that population. I...