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.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Here are 10 roles of social workers, but this list is by no means exhaustive: Advocate : Social workers often act as advocates for their clients, working to ensure their rights and needs are met within various systems and institutions. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN What is the main role of a social worker?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! That, too, fails for several reasons.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 8, 2022

At the same time, communities are reeling from other, often-interrelated factors, including homelessness, drug addiction, and food insecurity. On any given night, more than 580,000 people are homeless in the United States , while drug addiction and overdoses impact people of all ages in all communities. For example, the U.S.

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 27, 2022

National Association of Social Workers Massachusetts Executive Director Rebekah Gewirtz said social workers and community-based organizations need to play a larger role in emergency response situations, and the Act to Create Alternatives for Community Emergency Services would help accomplish that. The Florida Times Union.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 21, 2018

One is the sheer volume of people in need of some type of mental health or substance abuse care. The second is the limited amount of time any single provider has available to provide a helpful service to an individual in need. Thus, most population health contexts are also brief intervention contexts.

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