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Kinship Care Gets a Boost

Beyond Advocacy

With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care.

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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The money goes to two adoption advocacy groups (reinforcing the bias that permanency equals adoption, not reunification, and prioritizing paper permanence over what has aptly been called “ relational permanence ”) not one, but two schools of social work, and – I kid you not - a consortium of child welfare system administrators.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator. Macro Social Work. Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending February 20, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The lawsuit says that investigators for the Administration for Children’s Services deceive and bully their way into people’s homes, where they rifle through families’ most private spaces, strip-search children and humiliate parents. They’re using these kids, basically, as pieces of evidence, and you can’t do that.” WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge, La.,

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator Macro Social Work Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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Save on All NASW Press eBooks: 15% Off!

Social Work Blog

Burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma are topics that students, instructors, practitioners, and administrators are concerned about. Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice.

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The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Transitions to 988

Social Work Blog

Vibrant Emotional Health, who is the current administrator of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, believes that this change will help increase accessibility to these much-needed services. Initially, introduced in the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act (H.R.