Child welfare in New Hampshire: when systems judge instead of understand

By: Shamecca Brown, Columnist

Outlets: Granite State News Collaborative

Published: June 16, 2026

Words: 691

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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In New Hampshire, children don’t just enter systems, they get pulled into them through delinquency cases, abuse and neglect proceedings, or CHINS (Children in Need of Services) cases.

On paper, these are different legal categories. In reality, they often reflect the same underlying conditions: trauma, instability, poverty and unmet needs, met with responses that come after the fact instead of addressing what caused them in the first place.

This isn’t just theory for me. I’ve …

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