Social Workers Speak

AUGUST 5, 2021

The 38-year-old Dorchester native and first-generation Cape Verdean American works as a social worker in addictions at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in the emergency psychiatric department at Boston Children’s Hospital. Monteiro, a social worker and community advocate , is running for a Boston City Council At-Large seat.…

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Stop Abuse Campaign

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Empirical research associated with the Adverse Childhood Experiences study from the Centers for Disease Control has demonstrated that ACEs cause various adverse outcomes in adulthood, including criminal justice system involvement. Drug dealing typically starts as a way for users like Larry to make enough money to feed their addiction.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Empirical research associated with the Adverse Childhood Experiences study from the Centers for Disease Control has demonstrated that ACEs cause various adverse outcomes in adulthood, including criminal justice system involvement. Drug dealing typically starts as a way for users like Larry to make enough money to feed their addiction.

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Criminal Justice Substance Abuse Addiction Rehabilitation 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

It would never be tolerated in a story about criminal justice. A question for any journalists reading this: Suppose you were working on a story about the criminal justice system, and a prosecutor said: “ By definition , anyone in jail is a criminal – they’re rapists and torturers and all sorts of other crooks.”

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Criminal Justice Child Welfare Justice and Corrections Foster Care 98

Stop Abuse Campaign

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We can break the ten ACEs into three categories: abuse (physical, emotional, and sexual), neglect (physical and emotional), and household or familial stressors (severe parental mental illness, parental addiction, parental domestic violence, parental incarceration and having a parent disappear due to death, abandonment or divorce).

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Psychiatric Addiction Domestic Violence Criminal Justice 72

Stop Abuse Campaign

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We can break the ten ACEs into three categories: abuse (physical, emotional, and sexual), neglect (physical and emotional), and household or familial stressors (severe parental mental illness, parental addiction, parental domestic violence, parental incarceration and having a parent disappear due to death, abandonment or divorce).

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Psychiatric Addiction Domestic Violence Criminal Justice 52