NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

? 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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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 25, 2022

This is a quest that Brown School professor Michael Sherraden has been at for decades with notable success in the US and abroad. According to the CSD news release : “CalKIDS began enrolling newborns and eligible public-school students in July during its soft launch period.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator. Macro Social Work. Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

had written, “I am a bad kid” and “I need to behave at school or Mommy and Daddy will be arrested.” And the head of a trade association for “children’s advocacy centers,” where many such exams are performed, says the real problem is agencies aren’t doing enough of them. ● So they used a blackmail placement – aka hidden foster care.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

No Black history in America or history of children’s advocacy can be complete without the name of Marian Wright Edelman. As a student at Spelman College in Georgia, she earned a scholarship to study abroad at such notable schools as the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

No Black history in America or history of children’s advocacy can be complete without the name of Marian Wright Edelman. As a student at Spelman College in Georgia, she earned a scholarship to study abroad at such notable schools as the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 2, 2023

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey , 42 percent of high school students report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, and 22 percent reported seriously attempting suicide in 2021. It is much worse for girls.

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Beyond Advocacy

APRIL 13, 2022

We cancelled Student Advocacy Day scheduled for the next day as the House and Senate would go into hiatus until the Covid-19 pandemic abated. Davis from Illinois who I met when I joined the faculty at Howard University School of Social Work in 2002. I was back on Capitol Hill Tuesday, April 5, for the first time in two years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In The Hill, Dr. Ruchi Fitzgerald, a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s Legislative Advocacy Committee, explains the enormous harm done by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to children of mothers with substance use disorder – by driving those mothers away from help. ?

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator Macro Social Work Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

But Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers is no ordinary novel. Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. In North Carolina, WBTV produced a series of reports documenting the harm done to children and families by hidden foster care in that state.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. They can send this child to better schools. In fact, it might cost, at most, $1.5

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

JUNE 3, 2022

Placing children into foster care is traumatic for them, even if it is essential to save the child’s life. Research links involvement in foster care to adverse outcomes such as failure to graduate high school, homelessness , and prostitution. Melanie has an ACE score of 6.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

JUNE 9, 2022

When we think about what childhood for nonbinary youth may be like, we might think about bullying nonbinary youth in school, “coming out” to parents, and current political clashes about what schools are allowed to teach about gender and sexuality. ← Suicide among LGBTQ Youth: Risks and Prevention. and “how can we prevent this?”.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. Advocacy takes various forms, including individual, organisational, and systemic levels. Client Advocacy 6. Self-Care 13.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Melina Brann is director of policy and advocacy for NASW-MI: Shirkey’s long sought-after mental health legislation defeated in bipartisan vote. Melina Brann is director of policy and advocacy with the National Association of Social Workers’ Michigan chapter , which also opposed the bills. Michigan Live.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

Over the years, I have realised the many facets of my passion for social work, exploring the intersections of personal experience, advocacy, interdisciplinary collaboration, and lifelong learning. From direct client interaction to policy advocacy, social workers can make an impact at various levels.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the School of Social Work is able to offer a number of scholarship opportunities to our BSW and MSW students each academic year. Rachelle Bataille, Bachelor of Social Work This scholarship meant a lot to me because this has been one of my most challenging school years.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The event is being presented in conjunction with the Congressional Social Work Caucus and the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth. The discussion will be moderated by CRISP Legislative Director Dr. Angelique Day, an associate professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work who is a descendant of the Ho Chunk Nation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”) Teachers make reports “based on the cleanliness of a child’s clothing or whether they bring food to school.” Emphasis added.] But PCAA has one of the ugliest track records in the field.

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KVC

MAY 19, 2023

Nevertheless, I Persisted: Robin’s Inspiring Success Story When Robin was just three years old, her mother’s substance use led to her and her siblings being placed in foster care for their safety. Read how Robin took control of her destiny, choosing to defy the statistics about children in foster care rather than be defined by them.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan School of Law says the best thing CR could do would be to get out. In January 2016, I described federal judge Janis Jack’s first decision in favor of CR as a guided tour of the hellscape of Texas foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania Law School is quite a piece of work. The school’s Dean, Theodore Ruger, has written a letter urging the University to consider imposing a “major sanction” against the self-proclaimed “race realist.” But, she said, “We have not seen any evidence that it crosses the line.”

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

National Child Abuse Prevention Month brings a heightened awareness of child abuse during April, but children need our advocacy year-round. Learning the signs of a child in a potentially dangerous position can go far in the advocacy and prevention of abuse. Changes in school performance. Changes in eating habits. Mentor a child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Does DHS think any time a child decides the food in the school cafeteria is too “gross” and decides to skip lunch – which might mean he doesn’t eat for eight hours – the school and/or the parents are guilty of neglect? – or face an allegation that it was “unknown” if a child was fed? Writing in The Imprint , Prof.

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Beyond Advocacy

JANUARY 5, 2024

It had been the subject of her dissertation titled In the Best Interest of the Family: The Outcomes of Children in Foster Care with an Incarcerated Parent and the Adverse Implications of the Adoptions and Safe Families Act. Joining her on the panel are Dr. Pettus since her days on the Brown School at Washington University in St.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

On the Proximity Process podcast Kathleen Creamer, Managing Attorney of the Family Advocacy Unit at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia discusses the enormous harm done to families by America’s obsession with termination of parental rights. Silberman SW student states she was impacted by the violence of ACS & “Y’all are scary.”

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 3, 2024

Twenty-five School of Social Work faculty, Ph.D. 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. from January 10 to 14.

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Social Workers Speak

APRIL 8, 2022

Cindy Hayes is a member: Program helps teachers focus on self-care. I really enjoyed tonight,” said LaDoris Politte, a special education teacher at North Lewis Elementary School. MN School Social Workers: Mental-Health Demands are Real. The Daily Iberian (LA). “I Public News Service. COVID cases are down in much of the U.S.,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Post story cites with approval school districts that “trained” teachers in how to spot abuse while tracking 20 kids in zoom boxes. In other cases, the Post reported, “children’s advocacy centers have tried to reach children in new ways, slipping messages into supply bags or into homework lessons.” Overwhelmingly, they are neglect.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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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