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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

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. This includes defending individuals’ rights and addressing issues such as poverty, mental health, domestic violence, disability rights and substance abuse.

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How the journalism of child welfare fails

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care.

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How America Can Break the Cycle and Prevent Drug Abuse

Stop Abuse Campaign

There are countless ways to try and cure pain; drug abuse — consuming chemicals designed to do so is perhaps the most straightforward. . Ironically, the behavior that Krystal’s mother cited as most intolerable, that she used to justify placing her into foster care, was dabbling with marijuana. . Why do people abuse drugs?

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How America Can Break the Cycle and Prevent Drug Abuse

Stop Abuse Campaign

There are countless ways to try and cure pain; drug abuse — consuming chemicals designed to do so is perhaps the most straightforward. Ironically, the behavior that Krystal’s mother cited as most intolerable, that she used to justify placing her into foster care, was dabbling with marijuana. Why do people abuse drugs?