Social Workers Speak

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Michigan agencies seek strategies to address child welfare worker shortage. However, the state is currently facing what one industry leader described as a “critical shortage” of child welfare workers. Her 20 or so family clients reside in the surrounding rural areas and most are Medicaid participants.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

That’s the current name of a child welfare trade association that co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. Yet none of the recent trips to the reputation laundry from child welfare establishment groups includes support for any proposal that would reduce their power.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Or will they uphold their commitments to child safety through family preservation? -- Based on her extensive research Prof. 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.

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