Social Work Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Aging Out of Foster Care Every year, more than 20,000 young adults age out of the foster care system. They are between the ages of 18 and 21, some having chosen to voluntarily remain in care after 18.

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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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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. I have known Dr. Pettus since her days on the Brown School at Washington University in St.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

As one such commenter put it: As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I wish news organizations such as Wapo would be more clear with using terms such as “social worker.” She did it -- three times -- when The New York Times exposed foster care as “the new ‘Jane Crow’.” Social workers would never do something like that!

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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. Mezzo Social Work. Macro Social Work. Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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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. ● And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof. I missed this one last month: Prof.

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Brayn Mares is government relations director for NASW-TX: Texas fights federal rule that would outlaw LGBTQ discrimination in state adoptions and foster care. Ferrigno founded Mindfully Aware with the help of fellow clinical social worker and Cranford mom, Jenn Carroll. The Texas Tribune. The Daily Times. Community Impact.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The expanded KVC Missouri team will serve thousands of families each year, offering preventative family strengthening services, foster care , children’s mental health treatment, educational academies, and other services from 20 locations including Kansas City, St. We can truly transform the face of foster care and mental health.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Robert Latham, associate director at the Children & Youth Law Clinic of the University of Miami Law School, who wrote this on his excellent Blog: And lest you think this law has no teeth, the law prevents admission of any statement made by a parent without the notice being given. So we turn for analysis to Prof.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

After all the attention from the Times stories, Dasani’s middle-school principal, who’d always been in her corner and wanted only the best for her, encouraged Chanel to apply to have Dasani admitted to the Milton Hershey School. The school was established in 1909 by the founder of the chocolate company.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sarah Katz, director of the Family Law Litigation Clinic at Temple University, in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “A federal law has been destroying families for 25 years. A parent may be sentenced to a relatively short time in prison – but, because of ASFA, for their children it can lead to a life sentence of separation from parents they love.

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Social Workers Speak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Foundation and the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute (HBRT) at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work have been awarded a $3.3 Texas Public Radio. Psychotherapy after the pandemic will likely be a hybrid — part office, part telemedicine.

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 22, 2022

Susan, in addition to growing up on a farm in Holt County and supporting the Eckers’ operation, is a licensed clinical social worker and practices mental health counseling. Lisa Savage, a licensed clinical social worker and founder of the Center for Child Development , said they could also become aggressive. PsychCentral. Penn Today.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The lawsuit was filed by the Family Justice Law Center, the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private firms. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Law 360 sums it up perfectly: As New York City schools shuttered and people went into lockdown amid the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, city officials expected that having more children stuck at home would mean more children suffering abuse or neglect — but they were proven wrong. ● Who says so? And, what do you know?

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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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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the School of Social Work is able to offer a number of scholarship opportunities to our BSW, MSW, and Ph.D. Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. students each academic year.

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Social Workers Speak

APRIL 8, 2022

“The for-profit homes are driven by profit,” said Bill Lamb, a board member at Friends of Residents in Long Term Care , a North Carolina group that advocates for nursing homes residents. When you look at where you squeeze profits out of a long-term care facility, staffing is where you begin.”. Las Vegas Sun. Lakeland Patch.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

But a group of mothers, attorneys, and other advocates who know the foster care system from the inside saw things differently,” Hurley writes in a just-published follow-up story for The New Republic. They had long considered the system overzealous in its investigations of poor Black and brown families. “I

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

School closures and separation from peers created toxic stress for teenagers, said John Richardson-Lauve, a licensed clinical social worker and mental health director at ChildSavers , a nonprofit focused on trauma therapy for children in low-income communities. 8 News Now Las Vegas. View on Youtube.].

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

MartinGuggenheim, who founded the nation’s first family defense clinic at New York University School of Law (and who also is president of NCCPR). ? This year the American Bar Association annual conference of family defense attorneys was, of course, an online event. They have a commentary about it in The Imprint. ?

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 18, 2022

“Access to gender affirming care for youth saves lives, reduces the likelihood of harm, and promotes healing.”. ‘It It really will have almost no impact at all’: WV lawmakers strip social worker raises from foster care bill. Judith Guberman is a member: How to Be a Partner, Not a Parent, When Providing Care for a Spouse.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges. 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.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

Providing aid to families within a threatening and punitive system ruins the opportunity for schools, health care clinics, and social programs to be community-based resources where families can find non-coercive help with meeting their needs. ?

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