Famcare

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The focus of social work has shifted from providing immediate support as a safety net to the vulnerable to striving for a better long-term outcome for each client. In other words, what will be the ultimate outcome for the child?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun. Not a lot of money either, since we know that remarkably small amounts of cash are enough to significantly reduce what family police agencies call “neglect.”

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KVC

MARCH 9, 2023

A key component to being a social worker is serving others during times of crisis. While social workers are often focused on taking care of other people’s needs, it’s critical that self-care is also a priority for social workers! They often carry the heavy weight for those they serve.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You asked, what are the 10 roles of social workers ? While I can provide a list of 10 common roles of social workers, it’s important to note that our roles often go beyond these. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 17, 2022

The column focused on an excellent Washington Post story about one such family – and how wrenching the trauma was, even though they were so well off they could hire two lawyers and a private social worker to fight off CPS; even though they had advance warning of the inspection of their home and even though they were able to limit that inspection.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

April Ferguson LCSW-C Senior Practice Associate Children and Adolescents April 2024 The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) acknowledges April as Child Abuse Prevention Month.

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Famcare

MARCH 16, 2023

Anna Scheyett, PhD , is the speaker, and this is her TED Talk about social workers. In this Ted Talk, she gives a succinct 7-minute summary of why social workers are superhumans. So Happy Social Worker Month. Please enjoy this reposted TED Talk!

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Social workers dedicate their lives to helping others, including some of the most vulnerable people in our society. However, research shows members of the social work profession are more likely to experience work-related stress, burnout, and a lower quality of life compared to other professions and the general population.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

You asked, what are the benefits of being a social worker? Social work is a profession dedicated to improving the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. It is a field that requires social work practice skills and offers a unique opportunity to make a real and lasting impact on people’s lives.

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Famcare

MARCH 16, 2023

And social workers are hard-pressed to find one group in more dire need of urgent attention than children at risk of neglect or abuse. How we care for the most vulnerable among us is one of the great challenges of our time. As Mahatma Ghandi once said, “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

Editor’s note: In this blog post, four social worker educators share a sample from their new and free resource about using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in social work education. Alexander Rubin , LCSW, is a clinical assistant professor based in field education at the University at Buffalo School of School of Social Work.

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Social Workers Speak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In “The Gateway” actor Shea Wigham portrays Parker Joe, a former professional fighter who becomes a state social worker. This is not the first film about a social worker gone violent. The Gateway movie poster care of Lionsgate. Olivia Munn (right) portrays the distressed mother of Ashley (Taegen Burns).

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Tolhurst, previously the deputy chief whip, used her first tweet since her portfolio was confirmed to highlight social workers’ “vital role in keeping our children safe”, in encouraging applications to Frontline. Sign up with them to train as a social worker here: [link].

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

Focus on socio-economic rights and avoid stigma to tackle poverty, BASW guide urges social workers. ‘As As poverty has become more about individuals, child protection has become more authoritarian’. The report said the 10,356 additional children to have entered care was equivalent to 8.1% Related reading.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 29, 2022

One of most rewarding aspects of the work we do at CRISP is encountering so many gifted social workers in all parts of the country who are eager to become change agents and difference makers by working in the policy and political arenas. Many are young and in the beginning stages of their budding social work careers.

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Famcare

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

According to estimates, the United States has over 680,000 social workers affiliated with various non-profit organizations. Social workers play an important role in the American social fabric, from juvenile justice to veteran services, senior services, and child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Dorothy Roberts’ definitive dissection of racism in family policing: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Some might say the novel depicts a dystopian future child welfare surveillance state. We start with three important books: ● First, Prof.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Top stories include: Human Rights Advocacy: Wave of LGBTQIA+ Bills Underscores Vital Role for Social Workers. With the recent spate of anti-LGBTQIA+ bills introduced or passed in many states, NASW and social workers are stepping up to advocate for this community, especially against legislation targeting transgender youth.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When I graduated in 2007, I deferred my loan for a year as I was unable to pay my monthly rate as I looked for a job,” said Howe, who works in the child welfare system. . Though this may sound akin to winning the lottery, it happened after years of Howe struggling to pay the $84,000 it cost to achieve her graduate degree. .

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

As the research summarized in NCCPR’s new Issue Paper makes clear, this has backfired – creating a massive child welfare surveillance state that scares families away from seeking help, overloads the system with false reports, trivial cases and poverty cases, and leaves workers even less time to find the few children in real danger.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 31, 2022

2022 Winners Emerging Social Worker Leader. This award honors an alumnus social worker who is at the beginning phase of their career and who has demonstrated outstanding leadership as a developing professional. Outstanding Social Worker Award. Outstanding Social Worker Award. Time : 6-9 PM.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Remember all those scare stories about how, because COVID-19 prevented overwhelmingly white disproportionately middle-class “mandated reporters” from constantly having their “eyes” on children who are neither, their parents would unleash upon their own children a “pandemic of child abuse” ? million Black children.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

NASW Senior Practice Associate, School Social Work and Child Welfare. Social Workers who serve these children, train, and update their skills as they develop a uniqueness that supports the child and their “Forever Family” through the challenges of creating a nurturing permanent environment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2023

If you know Massachusetts “child welfare” you know the answer.) But then … Three weeks later, her social worker surprised Lacie when she announced DCFS would be taking her children, after all. Why, she asked, if DCFS believed the children were unsafe, did social workers not remove them immediately?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

The independent researchers, who received data from the county, also found that social workers disagreed with the risk scores the algorithm produced about one-third of the time. Roberts discusses her book, and racism in child welfare with Marc Lamont Hill And here with Ali Velshi on MSNBC: ? Velshi refers to Prof.

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Famcare

OCTOBER 9, 2022

For those working in child services, an understanding of family situations is vital in being able to help improve child welfare. Fortunately for those agencies, utilizing the right social services software can help streamline processes and effectively “humanize” the various situations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

That’s b ecause, as one expert said: “Once you're in the clutch of the child welfare system, you're very vulnerable.” I have a column in Youth Today about why that’s not true either – and why it’s also irrelevant – because In child welfare, if the solution is money, the problem is poverty. ?

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

NASW presented the social work perspective in addressing substance use and highlighted the workforces’ impact in treatment and child welfare settings. NASW made three content recommendations that would assist social workers in educating and treating families impacted by addiction.

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Social Work Synergy

APRIL 15, 2020

Social workers are often unsung heroes, and that’s often ok with them. They work in child welfare agencies where the work is so sensitive that they avoid talking about it. In fact, most people don’t even want to think about it; they hear “social work” and say, “OH, I could never do that.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As for the notion that the problem can be fixed with “more training” here’s what one school social worker said her training was like: [T]he training sessions she has attended have begun by projecting the names and pictures of young people who have died by parental abuse, the social worker said, a tactic she considers “fear mongering.”

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Famcare

JUNE 8, 2023

There are over 700,000 social workers in the US as of right now, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. million social services rendering their services to a vast clientele across different sectors. The number is constantly on the rise in the country, with over 1.8

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

However, it also found that “the lack of information sharing for child welfare or safeguarding contrasted sharply with well-developed information-sharing processes for immigration control purposes”. Immigration law is often prioritised at the expense of the child’s wellbeing’. Related articles.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In New York, that state’s Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights is going to launch an investigation into “possible violations of Black families’ civil and constitutional rights by the New York child welfare system.” ? At least it will be something to have a warrant, but I think we need more than that.”

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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 28, 2022

To add, there continues to be issues of drinking water for many Indigenous persons and child welfare still needs reform in most jurisdictions. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. My message to white supremacists, you get over it! Your day is over. I’m still angry.

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Famcare

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Recent estimates place the number of social workers in the US at around 700,000. Social workers in the US have a lot on their plates working for a variety of social services, such as child welfare, senior services, veteran services, and juvenile justice.

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Famcare

DECEMBER 15, 2021

At year end we like to take a look over our shoulder at the vast army of social workers who have supported our country's most vulnerable populations throughout the year. The purpose of this annual overview is to tell social workers nationwide that we appreciate the task their profession has undertaken.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

--How many times have you read what journalists covering child welfare call “the fatality series”? A little more of what those social workers, and the rest of us, need to know, is available with the creation of an online archive of records of so-called “boarding schools” run by the Catholic Church. So now you can, too. (It

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