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ACE 101: Parental Substance Abuse

Stop Abuse Campaign

The ACE study demonstrated that growing up in a household where a parent suffers from a significant, unchecked addiction to alcohol or drugs is as damaging as direct childhood traumas. While the illegality of street drugs poses additional risks for children, addiction itself is risky enough. . ← Grounding in Toes & Yoga.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

Counsellor : They provide counselling and emotional support to individuals and families facing a wide range of challenges, including mental health issues, addiction, and crisis situations. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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How America Can Break the Cycle and Prevent Drug Abuse

Stop Abuse Campaign

Throughout the 1990s, occasional voices explaining that the people most likely become addicted to drugs, and stay addicted, were people who had experienced abuse as a child and/or suffered mental illness occasionally rose through the din. Like her mother, she chose a violent man addicted to drugs as the patriarch.

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How you can save babies whose mothers have substance use disorders

Stop Abuse Campaign

Babies born addicted to opiates have to start life going through the same agonizing withdrawal process as adults. Foster care and attachment disorders. When we remove a baby from their mother, they are most likely going into some version of foster care. And foster care, as a whole, has atrocious outcomes. .

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 6, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) Two months later he was dead.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.