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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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Editor’s note: This post was written by Melanie Sage from the University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a follow-up to her post – A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19. As a university professor , I do not work with clients directly.

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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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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]. Welcome from children’s social care bodies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.

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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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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system. About Emporia State University.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

March is National Social Work Month and KVC is joining the National Association of Social Workers to recognize the powerful, positive impact social workers have on their clients and their communities! Social workers and other helping professionals provide crucial support to children, adults and families in need.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy. Why had this happened?

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He would share with members of the board what he had read,” said Locklear, a professor and assistant chairperson of the Social Work Department at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. “He He had that quality that we work so hard to teach in schools of social work.” and Region XII director for NASW.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

He co-authors a “news analysis” for the Los Angeles Times that sounds like a pitch by a company selling “predictive analytics” software for child welfare. The post talked about Therolf’s profound discomfort with any suggestion that there is systemic racial bias in child welfare. Second of two parts. Read part one here.

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Social Work Synergy

APRIL 15, 2020

We are proud to have her as a member of our faculty at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This morning, I gave a presentation with the above title At the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Here is the text of that presentation Have you heard? Deadric Williams of the University of Tennessee. Poverty is confused with neglect! I think this, from Prof.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He would share with members of the board what he had read,” said Locklear, a professor and assistant chairperson of the Social Work Department at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. “He He had that quality that we work so hard to teach in schools of social work.” and Region XII director for NASW.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Their transition from the child welfare system to adulthood is often difficult as they tackle education, employment, housing, relationships and, simply, next steps. Easing that transition often falls to social workers and social work organizations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● I have a column in The Imprint about why making clergy mandated reporters doesn’t have a prayer of actually curbing child abuse. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “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? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 5, 2020

What they have in common – is that I think they’ll be of interest to future facing social workers. It is not a broken system, it is a system that needs to be broken: the upEND movement to abolish the child welfare system. Journal of Public Child Welfare, Published online September 6, 2020.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We are trying through our work at CRISP to influence as many social workers as possible to become more engaged in the political arena where our skills, knowledge, and values are in short supply. Social workers have been making transformational contributions to the betterment of society from its inception. We need more.

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inSocialWork

JANUARY 19, 2021

In this episode, Lindsay Armendariz and Brandi Hawk discuss Parent-Child Care (PC-Care), a brief intervention designed to respond to the needs of parents, foster parents and children in the child welfare system. Implications for placement stability and other outcomes are described. Lindsay Anne Forte Armendariz, M.S.

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Social Workers Speak

APRIL 13, 2023

For Black social workers, anxiety and depression are on the rise The Conversation Since the 2020 racial reckoning, social workers have prided ourselves on working to eliminate social justice disparities. Eliminating Racism,” for instance, became an official grand challenge of social work in 2020.

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Social Workers Speak

JUNE 22, 2023

Fortune What’s more, there’s a role for technology in providing access to treatment—particularly the use of telehealth services via Zoom or other video platforms, Mirean Coleman, clinical director at the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) , tells Fortune. She worked for 16 years in child welfare in Washington, DC.

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 18, 2023

Participating in sports can provide numerous benefits for children, including improved physical health, greater socialization skills, and an increased sense of belonging. Qur-an Webb brings his unique experience as both a social worker in the child welfare field and as the co-founder of the Association of Black Sports Officials.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Early Inspirations: High School and Beyond From the earliest days of high school, I found myself drawn to social issues and the incredible work done by social workers in our communities. It was during this time that I began to understand the profound influence of the social work profession.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Inferences about an individual’s risk for health or social problems should not be made based upon an ACE score, and no arbitrary ACE score, or range of scores, should be designated as a cut point for decision making or used to infer knowledge about individual risk for health outcomes,” Anda wrote in 2020. And that goes double for doctors.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 9, 2023

States put social workers to task in comp Business Insurance Several states are taking steps to address shortages of qualified mental health professionals in workers compensation by making it simpler for licensed clinical social workers to help injured workers.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This commitment, affirmed in our strategic plan , calls on us to engage in meaningful dialogue and hold ourselves accountable to action toward social justice. To meet the needs of Latina/o/x individuals, families, and communities, we have developed programs that prepare social workers for that important work. to 1:15 p.m.

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Social Workers Speak

APRIL 13, 2023

For Black social workers, anxiety and depression are on the rise The Conversation Since the 2020 racial reckoning, social workers have prided ourselves on working to eliminate social justice disparities. Eliminating Racism,” for instance, became an official grand challenge of social work in 2020.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We are trying through our work at CRISP to influence as many social workers as possible to become more engaged in the political arena where our skills, knowledge, and values are in short supply. Social workers have been making transformational contributions to the betterment of society from its inception. We need more.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This dialogue, and a commitment to social justice action and accountability, make our School and community stronger. We know there is a growing need for Spanish-speaking social workers in our community and state.

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