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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

This is because they develop treatment plans to address mental illness and substance abuse problems, often holding supervisory roles and advocating for human rights within the criminal justice system. This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents.

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“Maybe we're just too damn intrusive": Tracing the take-the-child-and-run mentality that has endangered Massachusetts children for more than a century

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Second, all substance use isn’t opioids.

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A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19

Social Work Synergy

She spends her workdays between two group homes; each houses 25 vulnerable men with difficulties stemming from substance abuse. This student conducts interviews about child abuse on quiet front porches when she can, instead of going into houses, because maybe that’s safer. But nothing is normal right now.

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When the journalism of child welfare fails, part one: The Boston Globe’s flying donkey

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Here are the sentences: “It’s an extremely biased way of alerting the government to the risk of child maltreatment. Even In those cases, again, 89% did not involve even an allegation of physical or sexual abuse. Sixty-three percent did not include any allegation of substance abuse.