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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

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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NCCPR at the Kempe Center conference: The case against CASA

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

With aspirations of receiving my LCSW following my degree, the opportunities I was able to have in this placement allow for me to have a better overall understanding of the importance of clinical work. My goal for my final year is to do a clinical internship working with children.

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Lessons from two child welfare court decisions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else. 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.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.