Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

After 2 years being a social worker in a Family Service Centre (FSC) in Singapore, earning all of $3600 per month, before having a pay bump to $3690 in my second year (which I asked for), I realised that we were so sheepish about talking about money, that social workers were actually struggling. And you can’t think about money.

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Domestic Violence Social Worker Social Services Social Services 130

Social Workers Speak

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Lena, a seasoned high school teacher whom I interviewed while conducting research for my book, Lockdown: Talking to Your Kids About School Violence , admitted that she keeps a baseball bat next to her classroom door, just in case. “A Allison Carpenter is a member: [Video] Library partners with Family Service Rochester to add social worker.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

. ● Tearing apart families because of foster-care panic is common; admitting that’s why you’re doing it is not. But this story from WitnessLA includes the case of a Los Angeles mother who was investigated by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but initially allowed to keep her children. That needs to stop."

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) Even the lip service paid to prevention doesn’t say what kind of prevention she has in mind. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable.

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