Social Workers Speak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Victor Armstrong is the first chief health equity officer at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Health Resources and Services Administration, and it is part of UNT’s Center for Racial and Ethnic Equity in Health and Society, which focuses on redressing inequity and health quality in Texas.

Domestic Violence 40

Domestic Violence Foster Care Clinic Social Worker 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

She is wrong about domestic violence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? She is dangerously wrong.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Domestic Violence Foster Care 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. This has resulted in a fixation on clinical services and proprietary models rather than proactive family support.

Child Welfare 113

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 113