NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in foster care on any given day -- is even worse. She said no.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Chief executive Anna Feuchtwang also welcomed the DfE’s intention to “rebalance the system towards early support for families so they can overcome problems like mental health, domestic violence and addiction, and provide stable and supportive environments for their children to grow up in.”

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Domestic Violence Government Social Worker Consultation 264

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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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Social Worker Treatment Planning Justice and Corrections Interventional 95

University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My previous and future work involves working with some of the most vulnerable members of our society -- that work being with LGBTQIA+ youth, and victims and survivors of domestic violence. I grew up with two parents struggling with addiction but refused to let it define me, and I want to help other children beat the odds as well.

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Justice and Corrections LMSW Schools Mental Health 52

Stop Abuse Campaign

AUGUST 14, 2022

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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Addiction Criminal Justice Foster Care Justice and Corrections 98

Stop Abuse Campaign

AUGUST 14, 2022

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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Addiction Criminal Justice Foster Care Justice and Corrections 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

The study makes no reference to high scores meaning the subject’s parents are “Addicts, Alcoholics, Mentally Ill, Violent, Criminal, Deadbeats.” Because that’s what the adverse childhood experience of a child abuse investigation is really all about (except, of course, the toxic environment would be foster care, not a carcinogen factory).

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