Michigan Girl's Café

MARCH 15, 2019

SAGE Guide to Social Work Careers: Your Journey to Advocacy (2019) by Melissa Bird, PhD is a career book about macro social work practice. Unlike the other career books, this book does not focus on clinical work. In macro social work, students learn this under other names such as community practice or policy practice.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Instead of making the dreadful Texas "child welfare" system better, "Children's Rights" and "A Better Childhood" set off what amounts to a giant game of whack-a-mole. The one thing the McLawsuits do well is offer thorough, vivid descriptions of how awful “child welfare” systems typically are. Not that this was a surprise.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. That’s not because they want to hurt children, of course. He is not a CASA-basher.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. Writing in The Imprint , Prof. Appellate courts would intervene.

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 6, 2022

Ann Wilder, a licensed clinical social worker at Magee Women’s Hospital in the behavioral health division , uses the practice of mindfulness with her clients, with positive results. A clinical social worker by training, he graduated with his master’s degree from the University of Michigan. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Scary Mommy.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges. Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems.

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“We have always had difficulty in maintaining staffing and child protection agencies, but the pandemic has made it worse.”. Melina Brann is director of policy and advocacy for NASW-MI: Shirkey’s long sought-after mental health legislation defeated in bipartisan vote. Michigan Live. 8 News Now Las Vegas. View on Youtube.].

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

From child welfare and mental health to community development and healthcare, social workers can choose to specialise in areas that align with their passions and interests. Advocacy and Social Justice Social work is inherently tied to social justice and advocacy. Benefits of being a social worker 7.Advocacy

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 9, 2023

States put social workers to task in comp Business Insurance Several states are taking steps to address shortages of qualified mental health professionals in workers compensation by making it simpler for licensed clinical social workers to help injured workers. Help them to prepare and sustain and maintain themselves on college campuses.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Some of these articles are free to access.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 9, 2023

States put social workers to task in comp Business Insurance Several states are taking steps to address shortages of qualified mental health professionals in workers compensation by making it simpler for licensed clinical social workers to help injured workers. Help them to prepare and sustain and maintain themselves on college campuses.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 3, 2022

21 for the National Association of Social Workers Indiana Chapter’s (NASWIN) 23rd annual Legislative Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD). Connecticut requires a yearly $195 licensing renewal fee, plus a first-time fee of either $220 for master’s social workers or $315 for clinical social workers. The fee is outrageously high,” he said.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Still, just one social worker in her hospital covers NICU plus pediatrics, maternity, labor and delivery, and two outpatient OB-GYN clinics. Penelope, a child welfare worker in Texas, sees the compassion fatigue hitting her colleagues. But child welfare workers are invisible. She feels guilt.

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Social Workers Speak

APRIL 22, 2022

One transgender man quit his job as a child welfare worker in Texas after having to investigate families of trans kids for child abuse. As a transgender man, he joined the child welfare agency to be the advocate he never had while growing up. The clinical social work supply chain is diminishing.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.

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