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#childwelfare is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 32 people shared 87 posts with it — around 3 a day. Activity is up 17% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 3 with 8 posts.

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Sharon Murdoch
@domesticanimal.bsky.social
6 days ago
Survivors of abuse in care hand-delivered flowers to Parliament. The flowers were picked from the grounds of hospitals and care residences that were sites of abuse, and marked 2 years since the damning findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry. My #cartoon today #NZpol #AbuseInCare #ChildWelfare
Cartoon. Title: “Survivors of Abuse in State Care” Then it says, “Flowers for the Minister” (Erica Stanford) Image shows a bunch of red flowers, tied with a black ribbon, and a card attached, “Still Waiting for Redress” The flowers bear the faces of children.
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Nelly Delly
@marconi333.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
There will never be an algorithm that can reverse the societal-level impact of state abandonment. But we will do anything other than fund universal social goods. Despite the failures, there is still far greater political willpower to pursue punishment than anti-poverty measures. #AI #ChildWelfare
Concern about workload is so great that one of the six predictive algorithms used by ACS “estimates weekly caseloads by area for the next 12 months” to "identify how busy certain neighborhoods are likely to be” and “optimize workforce distribution across different boroughs.” There will never be an algorithm that can reverse the societal-level impact of state abandonment. But we will do anything—including profile entire neighborhoods into literal heat maps of alleged future child abuse—other than fund universal social goods. Despite growing recognition of the system’s failures, there is still far greater political willpower to pursue punishment for families than soaring anti-poverty measures. It’s somehow easier to look at the mess of family policing as it exists and promise to use AI to make it slightly better, for the workers who run it. In May, the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a $6 million investment “to expand states’ use of technology solutions, including predictive analytics.”

“Many of these children, over half of them, end up involved in either the juvenile justice system or the adult prison industrial complex.” Those inclined to accept these as necessary evils to prevent the death of even one child don’t have much evidence to justify the trade. #FFY #ChildWelfare
“Children age out into homelessness. There are a gazillion lawsuits for children being beaten and battered and sexually abused, and all of these other things while in the foster system,” McMillan told me over Zoom. “Then we have children who don't graduate high school because they change homes regularly, and every time they change homes, they change schools, caregivers, their entire surroundings, they’re completely disoriented. Many of these children, over half of them, end up involved in either the juvenile justice system or the adult prison industrial complex.” Those inclined to accept these outcomes as necessary evils to prevent the death of even one child don’t have much evidence to justify the trade. Last year, a major study of 3.4 million records of children in foster care found no relationship between removing kids from allegedly abusive or neglectful homes and child mortality. It didn’t go down when more kids were put in foster homes, and it didn’t go up when more families were kept together.
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Nelly Delly
@marconi333.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
“Many of these children, over half of them, end up involved in either the juvenile justice system or the adult prison industrial complex.” Those inclined to accept these as necessary evils to prevent the death of even one child don’t have much evidence to justify the trade. #FFY #ChildWelfare
“Children age out into homelessness. There are a gazillion lawsuits for children being beaten and battered and sexually abused, and all of these other things while in the foster system,” McMillan told me over Zoom. “Then we have children who don't graduate high school because they change homes regularly, and every time they change homes, they change schools, caregivers, their entire surroundings, they’re completely disoriented. Many of these children, over half of them, end up involved in either the juvenile justice system or the adult prison industrial complex.” Those inclined to accept these outcomes as necessary evils to prevent the death of even one child don’t have much evidence to justify the trade. Last year, a major study of 3.4 million records of children in foster care found no relationship between removing kids from allegedly abusive or neglectful homes and child mortality. It didn’t go down when more kids were put in foster homes, and it didn’t go up when more families were kept together.

More than 86 percent of the children in the foster care system were Black or Latino. Poverty rates also correlate heavily with ACS investigation rates; the poorer the district, the higher the ACS investigation rate.
As mayor, Giuliani cut more than $1.6 billion from public schools in his first three budgets. He cut subsidies to city hospitals, which have a mandate to serve poor New Yorkers, by nearly 85 percent. At the same time, Giuliani oversaw a more than $1 billion increase in the NYPD’s budget to help oversee and enact broken windows policing. By creating ACS while he decimated the city’s social safety net, Giuliani contorted children from a collective responsibility to an individual one. The negative consequences of social abandonment were transmuted into child neglect, a crime for which individual parents could be blamed. But the question remains: When a parent does not have the resources to care for a child, what should happen to that child? For Black and Latino children, the city’s answer is usually intervention by ACS. While only 48 percent of NYC’s population is Black or Latino, 82 percent of ACS investigations were of Black or Latino families in 2024. The same year, more than 86 percent of the children in New York’s foster care system were Black or Latino. Poverty rates also correlate heavily with ACS investigation rates; the poorer the district, the higher the ACS investigation rate. These disparities existed before ACS began using AI, and they still exist, years later.
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Nelly Delly
@marconi333.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
"Though there are some ostensibly reasonable factors, like if a child tested positive for drugs or alcohol, many are completely outside a parent’s control, nakedly use proxies for race, or otherwise indicate poverty rather than abuse." #AI Family Policing #ChildWelfare defector.com/new-yorks-us...
New York’s Use Of AI For Family Policing Summarizes The Last 30 Years Of City Politics | Defector

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New York’s Use Of AI For Family Policing Summarizes The Last 30 Years Of City Politics | Defector

Davene Roseborough still can’t believe the number of foster homes she lived in that had locks on the refrigerators and cabinets. At one spot, Roseborough was barred from eating dinner if she wasn’t ho...
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Chapin Hall
@chapinhall.bsky.social
1 day ago
New project finds leaders in 13 #ChildWelfare jurisdictions saw few children enter their systems directly after a parent's detention or deportation. Most believed relatives and trusted adults are stepping in and emphasized the value of community supports for caregivers: tinyurl.com/yffawtxb
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