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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 14, 2021

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.

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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 round-up, week ending January 25, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Of course, families enmeshed in the net of family policing agencies such as New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services have always known what the brain scientists are discovering.

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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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News Items – December 15, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Brayn Mares is government relations director for NASW-TX: Texas fights federal rule that would outlaw LGBTQ discrimination in state adoptions and foster care. There were plenty of warning signs in both cases, and even worse the, Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) had already been investigating the families prior to the murders.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) But Alberi seems to want OCFS to adopt a policy that boils down to: Please pass the salt. Partly that’s because the Mills administration chose Landry to run child welfare. But removing children for that reason can be even worse. It doesn’t look like OCFS gets this either.

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PART ONE OF FOUR: “Child welfare” heads to the reputation laundry

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

6, 2021 insurrection have prompted a lot of talk about “reputation laundering” as former Trump Administration officials try to distance themselves from the president they served so faithfully – the most notable example: former Attorney General William Barr. Real child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ?