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News Items – February 3, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Curtis Au, a licensed clinical social worker with a private practice in Westchester County , is forming a new online support group for adults who have taken on the role of caregiver for their parents. Allison Carpenter is a member: [Video] Library partners with Family Service Rochester to add social worker. Women’s Health.

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News Items – March 3, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Social workers have been finding shelter for homeless covid patients, providing treatment for people with addiction disorders made more challenging by pandemic-related social isolation, and comforting bereaved family members who have lost loved ones to the twin epidemics of covid and opioids. The fee is outrageously high,” he said. “In

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News Items – January 13, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Nneka Njideka, a licensed clinical social worker in Brooklyn, N.Y. , Jim Struve, a licensed clinical social worker and executive director of MenHealing, which provides services and support to men who have been sexually assaulted or abused, said male survivors of sexual abuse often get caught in extremes. The New York Times.

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News Items – March 10, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois (LCFS), a community-based social service organization, is helping celebrate this year’s Social Work Month in March. Opponents of the bill have argued throughout the budget session that enacting the law would make women less likely to seek treatment for their addiction. “We

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● Tearing apart families because of foster-care panic is common; admitting that’s why you’re doing it is not. But this story from WitnessLA includes the case of a Los Angeles mother who was investigated by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but initially allowed to keep her children.