Stop Abuse Campaign
APRIL 25, 2022
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. Why is parental substance abuse a trauma? Substance abuse can complicate the parent-child attachment.
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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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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 29, 2023
Betty Ford was addicted to booze and pills, and had mental health problems. I wasn’t abusing them. Arizona authorities arrested Blodgett for drug possession, and the state’s family police agency threw his son into foster care. Unlike Blodgett, this addict got hooked on booze, too. "I I wasn’t getting high.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. Parents who lose their children to foster care, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.
Stop Abuse Campaign
JULY 15, 2022
The statistics are shocking: ten percent or more of babies born in the United States test positive for alcohol or another mind-altering substance used by the mother struggling with substance use disorder. Babies born addicted to opiates have to start life going through the same agonizing withdrawal process as adults.
Stop Abuse Campaign
AUGUST 14, 2022
I was nine when Nancy Regan proposed we end the crack epidemic and, by extension, other illegal drug abuse, by “just saying no.” I came across a paper entitled “Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults: The Adverse Childhood Experiences ( ACE ) Study.”
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