Social Work Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Children and their families rely on school social workers (SSWs) to meet increasingly pressing and common mental health needs. In a recent issue of the journal Children & Schools , an article showcases the findings of a study on SSW burnout. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Children and their families rely on school social workers (SSWs) to meet increasingly pressing and common mental health needs. In a recent issue of the journal Children & Schools , an article showcases the findings of a study on SSW burnout. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership.

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inSocialWork

MARCH 26, 2024

Lauri Goldkind, PhD, LMSW, is an associate professor at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. University at Buffalo School of Social Work. How about an open mind and a commitment to ethics and justice as we learn to ask the right questions?

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inSocialWork

JULY 29, 2021

What concrete steps can be taken in schools to address trauma and improve the quality of education offered in light of a global pandemic that has turned our lives upside down? That said, it’s looking like K through 12 schools are going back to their buildings in person this fall. Karen Gross.

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Michigan Social Work

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

On February 17, 2022, the U-M Regents appointed Kathryn Elizabeth (Beth) Angell as the School of Social Work's next dean. Angell is an experienced administrator and is currently the dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Social Work. She will begin her appointment on July 1.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

She has worked as a school psychologist in public schools in New York and as a clinical psychologist in various clinic settings. Thus, it is the responsibility of both the school and parents to maintain open communication regarding a students’ education plan. To learn how to do this, we spoke with Cheryl N. Engel, Ph.D.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The New York City Administration for Children's Services Uses Highly Coercive Tactics to Illegally Search Tens of Thousands of Families’ Homes Every Year. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The government is running a national campaign offering Covid-19 vaccinations to children aged 12 and over, and it has extended its offer of flu vaccines to those in years 7 to 11 (generally those aged 11 to 16) this school year, having previously only rolled out the jab in primary schools. Mother’s opposition. Gillick competence.

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 28, 2022

Nowadays, the EA is often an agent of control on behalf of the administration to keep the assisted student and other disruptive students from disturbing the other non-identified students. I am of an age when the educational assistant used to work only on behalf of the student to which they were assigned. It is so short-sighted.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JUNE 30, 2023

Editor’s note: Melissa Freedman, MSW, is a social work educator and consultant specializing in leadership, supervision, administration, and quality management and assurance. Which standards will the program director(s) write, and which standards will be written by administrative leadership? More on this later.

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Swhelper

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Educators and their organizations, school administrators, and policymakers increasingly agree that a lack of diversity among teachers hurts U.S. Calls to increase the number of teachers of color, specifically African American teachers, have intensified over the past decade.

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Michigan Social Work

MARCH 14, 2023

Associate Professor Camille Quinn will receive the 2023 Milestone Achievement Award from the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

This gathering, which drew child welfare administrators and practitioners from across the nation, was a crucial platform for discussing the opportunities and challenges presented by the new, flexible licensing standards issued by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in September 2023.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It’s all in a report commissioned by the Administration for Children’s Services itself. Yesterday: Context for the new study : The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? ACS’ response: Don’t release the report!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Or they’d interrogate the child at school. But when The Imprint asked, out came the standard-issue lie: A spokesperson for New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services told The Imprint that her agency is unable to publicly discuss individual cases. She prayed that her 7-year-old son was still asleep in his room.

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 2, 2024

The UConn School of Social Work (SSW) is proud to announce that Professor Cristina Mogro-Wilson was elected to the board of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education (GADE). As the administrative body of GADE, the board of directors provides strategic leadership to its members and its constituencies.

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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

You face a variety of client needs, ranging from: Family needs often cut across many different types Domestic violence Financial assistance Housing, especially homelessness, or rental flat applications Elderly issues like neglect, care needs like dementia Child issues like child protection, absenteeism from school There’s often no one need.

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 1, 2024

The DATAMIND Hub maximises data's value by safely and securely uniting data from many sources, including health records, schools and administrative data, charity data, research trials, genomics, longitudinal studies and cohort data. On Thursday 25 April 2024, the DATAMIND and MQ Data Science Meeting took place in Swansea.

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inSocialWork

APRIL 18, 2023

Born and raised on Buffalo’s East Side, Brown has worked at the intersection of education and social justice as a general and special education teacher, an advocate for students with disabilities, and a school administrator. Kathryn Franco, LMSW, MPH, is an adjunct professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.

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Michigan Social Work

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Assistant Professor Rebeccah Sokol is the principal investigator of a three-year project recently funded by the CDC entitled “Evaluating a school-based social and material needs identification system to prevent youth violence involvement.” Professor Joe Ryan is a co-investigator of this project.

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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.

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Doin' The Work

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

She also works in higher education in retention of Native students and is a PhD student in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. She also works in higher education in retention of Native students and is a PhD student in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. Instagram: indigenous.cc & cahokiaphx.

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The Guardian

JULY 12, 2023

As a society, we profess to be child-centred, yet the UK has for the last 13 years voted for Conservative administrations that have systematically attacked and dismantled children’s services. Continue reading.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Trel then went to the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, earning a Master’s in Social Work, Class of 2022. Trel is an award-winning Mentor recognized by Former Governor Malloy’s Administration and the current Governor Administration, the Honorable Ned Lamont.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 22, 2021

She already had an undergraduate and master’s degree in business administration but spoke to local universities about entry requirements for social work courses. But the placement was such a success that the foster carer eventually became the child’s special guardian – and he went on to become a head boy of his school.

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The Guardian

APRIL 12, 2023

Lambeth council in London was fined £20,000 by the local government and social care ombudsman for a catalogue of service failures and administrative errors that left the child unsafe and in “significant and avoidable distress” and her mother at risk of serious injury.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

As one of our focus group participants put it: “It is hard, hard — I’m going to say ‘hard’ again, to avoid ACS. As one of our focus group participants put it: “It is hard, hard — I’m going to say ‘hard’ again, to avoid ACS.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Harding is a highly experienced academic administrator and leader, having served the School of Social Work not only as Ph.D. Co-Director but also as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This tradition continued in the first class of White House Fellows, founded in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson, when Harold Richman from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago became a member of the inaugural Fellows class, and was assigned to Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 10, 2024

Special guest Dr. Stephanie Boddie, the Associate Professor of Church and Community Ministries at the University of Baylor School of Social Work and the producer of Unfinished Business , an oral history documentary of the Great Migration, will perform a musical selection. Dr. Halaevalu Vakalahi will emcee the program.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Data were collected from 30 youth, six parents, and four school administrators via focus groups and semi-structured interviews. Children & Schools , Health & Social Work and Social Work Research are available by subscription at a discounted rate for NASW members, either online or in print.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Barbie Nadal-Cristofaro MSW, 092 (pending), 2016 – Administration and Case Work. I am also a school social worker for Hartford Public Schools and I run a small business, ‘Ends2meet LLC’, which creates awareness on poverty and provides people with basic needs including counseling.

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Save the Social Worker

JUNE 29, 2023

Even if it means turning up at his doorstep at 6 in the morning to get your young client to go to school, and stop playing truant. Ferguson’s study of time use in social work, found that up to 45% of time was spent on administrative work, more than anything else. You have to figure out how to help in some way. It can be that tough.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2022

He has more than 16 years of clinical, supervisory, and administrative experience as a licensed clinical social worker in Massachusetts and Connecticut. His previous work experience includes serving as dean of Academic Support Services at MIT and adjunct professor in several MSW programs.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Khadijah Abdurahman, who is both a parent with lived experience dealing with New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services – and a Tech Research Fellow at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. We begin with a photo: Check out the ads on New York City buses, from JMac For Families: ?

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

In April of 2020, Pastor Tony Lowden, then executive director of the Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry, spoke to a virtual meeting of the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. The more pieces put into place beforehand, the better it will turn out,” she said.

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Michigan Social Work

JULY 18, 2023

These awards are supported by the Office of the Provost and are part of the School of Social Work’s strategic effort to connect Detroit engagement efforts and increase impact in the city. ENGAGE partners with the Ford School’s Detroit Urban Research Center in the administration of the small grants program.

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