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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending October 4, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? Last week, I was asked to list the most important contributions to the field of family advocacy and family defense made by Prof. As Kathleen Creamer put it in this story from The Imprint “No one has done more than Marty to move this field towards justice — even when no one seemed to care about justice.” ? Martin Guggenheim.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 11, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? This solution, to both homelessness and foster care sounds almost ridiculously obvious. ●

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 20, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Department of Justice has found the state regularly violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by needlessly institutionalizing children with mental health problems. It certainly had a negative effect on the children.” Added Prof.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

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This can include roles that support larger systemic change through advocacy and policy in order to better support communities. 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. Mezzo Social Work.

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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.

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Guess which child welfare “scholars” are in the group defending a “race realist” law professor beloved by Tucker Carlson

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Font and Putnam-Hornstein have been brought in by that other bastion of the child welfare establishment, Chapin Hall, to advise them on a study that amounts to a whitewash of abuse in foster care. Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. But is the line always bright and clear?

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

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This can include roles that support larger systemic change through advocacy and policy in order to better support communities. 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.