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“Child welfare” and racism: Children’s Rights steps up

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It’s not a full-scale class-action lawsuit, but it’s a good start: Children’s Rights is representing the Minneapolis NAACP in a formal complaint to the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights.

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Kinship Care Gets a Boost

Beyond Advocacy

With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. And his TED Talk on the benefits of placing children with family members has more than 1.2

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Celebrate Social Work Month with NASW Press: 20% Off Books and eBooks!

Social Work Blog

This user-friendly resource can assist in developing organizational responses to policy issues, conducting policy analysis, and working in advocacy coalitions. As students of social work or other human services professions, it is essential that we understand how economic well-being—or the lack thereof—shapes people’s lives.

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Review: 101 Careers in Social Work - Third Edition (2019)

Michigan Girl's Café

nonprofit agencies, research, and government), core competencies and skills, educational and licensing requirements, best and challenging aspects of the job, compensation and employment outlook, self-assessment questionnaires and checklist to see if the job would be a good fit based on interest and skills.

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Lessons from two child welfare court decisions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution.

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News Items – March 3, 2022

Social Workers Speak

21 for the National Association of Social Workers Indiana Chapter’s (NASWIN) 23rd annual Legislative Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD). The National Association Workers of Guam Chapter is also gearing up for their annual conference that will unite those on island that are dedicating their lives to human services. St Louis Today.

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Alumni Honored with SSW Distinguished Alumni Awards

Michigan Social Work

He has been the editor for the journal Child Welfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. Sanders led the organization’s federal policy analysis, regulatory and legislative advocacy and coalition building efforts.