Beyond Advocacy
MARCH 20, 2024
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2021
So the public was primed to scapegoat family preservation when Nixzmary Brown died in January, 2006 – leading to a foster-care panic , a sharp sudden increase in the number of children torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. The panic was welcomed by the Times.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 17, 2022
? Last week, we noted the stunning Atlantic cover story about the Trump Administration policy of trying to destroy families at the Mexican border. The registries do enormous harm to children by driving families deeper into poverty, and ratcheting up unwarranted suspicion that can lead to a child being needlessly thrown into foster care.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
● Last week’s round-up began with the New York Times story about a landmark lawsuit against the New York City family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services. In The Grio, Shereen White, director of advocacy and policy at Children’s Rights, and Prof. Instead, she said, she was placed with a foster family.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
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. So they used a blackmail placement – aka hidden foster care. The child never needed to be taken.
Social Work Bubble
MARCH 14, 2022
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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