NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. She has repeatedly misused her power and privilege. In a report on Harmony’s case, Mossaides exercises that judgment ruthlessly.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

We celebrate the inspiring ways children and adults have healed from serious challenges like strained family relationships, mental health needs, addiction, loneliness and hopelessness. We shared this on Facebook: “Last night, we had a 17-year-old walk-in admission at our children’s psychiatric hospital.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Yet it almost never is challenged by journalists reporting on child welfare. The story in question is about the fact that foster youth are trapped in psychiatric hospitals and juvenile jails because the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has no place to put them. So Golbert’s false statement is not trivial.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

In Los Angeles County, WitnessLA begins a multi-part in-depth series on the failure of the child welfare surveillance state with a look at battered mothers afraid to seek help because of the entirely justified fear that the family police might take away their children.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

Many people experience overwhelming challenges such as mental illness, trauma, addiction, poverty, homelessness, unemployment and more every day. child welfare services are provided or managed by the government agency in each state. Interested in feeling the joy and purpose that come from helping others? In the U.S.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Extensive evidence supports its effectiveness in clinical situations ranging from depression and anxiety, to psychosis, trauma, and addiction (Hofmann et al., Antecedents to retention and turnover among child welfare, social work, and other human service employees: What can we learn from past research? Mor Barak, M. Nissley, J.

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Clinic Mental Health Consultation Psychology 52