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Children with Parents Behind Bars

Beyond Advocacy

It had been the subject of her dissertation titled In the Best Interest of the Family: The Outcomes of Children in Foster Care with an Incarcerated Parent and the Adverse Implications of the Adoptions and Safe Families Act. I will be privileged to engage these three dynamic individuals in a discussion as moderator.

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“A Liminal Moment in Social Work”: Access NASW’s Social Work Journal Online

Social Work Blog

Burned Out, Engaged, Both, or Neither? Exploring Engagement and Burnout Profiles among Social Workers in Spain Few studies have analyzed the existence of homogeneous groups in burnout and engagement among professionals, and none in social workers. The research has implications for the practice of child social workers.

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PART ONE OF FOUR: “Child welfare” heads to the reputation laundry

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As America’s racial justice reckoning finally catches up with “child welfare” – or, as it should be called, family policing – the “child welfare establishment is engaged in its own campaign of reputation laundering. Even the minimal due process protections in criminal justice are effectively null and void in “child welfare.”

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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil: Doing what we’ve always done?

Irish Socail Worker

Do we strive to adopt that cornerstone of trauma-informed care, of meeting the person where they are at, in the midst of their reality, with their lived-expertise guiding the way. In Ireland, we have taken a narrow approach to adoption of the Directive.

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NASW Member Voices: A Voting Rights Victory from the Supreme Court

Social Work Blog

The core issue of the case was determining if the congressional map adopted by Alabama lawmakers illegally watered-down the Black vote. In order to achieve that objective, social workers and other social justice advocates have to become fully engaged in the 2024 elections.