On Catching a Case: Fear and Inequality in New York City's Child Welfare System (with Tina Lee)

How does a child welfare system claiming to help families in need systematically target, punish and separate Black, Hispanic and poor families? Why aren’t we better connecting the dots between police abolition and the need to abolish child services and their implementation of surveillance in the name of *support*? How has the federal Family First Prevention Services Act passed in 2018 changed the priorities and funding for state level child welfare agencies?

Author of Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City’s Child Welfare System and Anthropology Professor at University of Wisconsin Stout campus, Tina Lee joins the WBI show for our 3rd episode examining the child welfare or family regulation system. We need systems that provide support for families instead of punishing and surveilling them. 

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Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis

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Show Notes: 
Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse by Richard Wexler
Children as Chattel: Invoking the Thirteenth Amendment to Reform Child Welfare Note 1 Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal 2003
Shattered Bonds The Color Of Child Welfare by Dorothy Roberts
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
A Fiji Junket, a Padlocked Office and a Pioneering Nonprofit’s Collapse
An Interview with Richard Wexler, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
An ‘Exemplary’ Foster Father, a String of Suspicions and Sexual-Abuse Charges (Published 2016)
Elisa W. v. City of New York - Amended Complaint (Class action lawsuit against ACS and OCFS)
THE PARENT LEGISLATIVE ACTION NETWORK HAILS PASSAGE OF HISTORIC CHILD WELFARE REFORM IN THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE AND URGES THE GOVERNOR TO SIGN THE BILL INTO LAW
Family First Policy Forum Slide Deck (Slide 90 features Virginia Child Welfare Commissioner's slide of kids in large suits counting money)
State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
Data Brief: Child Welfare Investigations and New York City Neighborhoods (2019)
Some Parents Awaiting iPads Got Visit From Child Welfare - THE CITY

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