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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Micro Social Work is direct-practice work in which a social worker meets with individuals, families, and small groups to support their treatment needs and improve their quality of life.

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News Items – July 1, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Stephanie Sterling is a member: Baton Rouge adoption agencies preparing for increase in demand after Supreme Court ruling. Baton Rouge area adoption agencies are already preparing for possibly busier days in the future, following the overturning of Roe V. We have been providing adoption services since 1964.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Micro Social Work Micro Social Work is direct-practice work in which a social worker meets with individuals, families, and small groups to support their treatment needs and improve their quality of life.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. 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. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable.

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Garrett Therolf and the Magic Algorithm!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Yet Therolf and Hamilton present it not just as a solution to the problems plaguing the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but the only viable solution. It was tried first in criminal justice – and proven to be racially biased. Watch out for those bad apples Notice the “few bad apples”-type framing here.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.