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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 27, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In The Grio, Shereen White, director of advocacy and policy at Children’s Rights, and Prof. That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent.

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The horrifying ubiquity of the family police

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

That’s just one of the findings in the new study we highlighted in yesterday's post to this Blog (a study I first read about on the excellent blog written by Robert Latham, Associate Director of the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act. Yes, second highest.

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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 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

During my time at UConn, learning how to work with different groups of people and learning different interventions will help me expand my knowledge even further after graduation. This scholarship will equip me to serve and give back to my community, and eventually become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

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SSW Faculty and Students Present at 2024 SSWR Annual Conference

University of Connecticut

The research presented by the SSW community comprises a variety of topics, including foster care, LGBTQIA+ youth, substance abuse treatment, mindfulness-based intervention, and gender-affirming care, among many others.

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News Items – April 8, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Brit Holmberg is a member: Mental health workers urge Mayor Lori Lightfoot to stop using police in crisis intervention teams. The University of Georgia grad and the Fast and Furious franchiser have seen better days (more on that later) and their rocky journey is likely just begun. New York Magazine. The Things.