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Review: Careers in Human Services (2015)

Michigan Girl's Café

Careers in Human Services (2015) by Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD is a comprehensive occupational guidebook that contains 25 chapters describing specific fields of interest in the human services. Macro social workers are labeled as "administrative social workers" who engage in research, policy, and administration.

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Notes from the Future – March 14, 2023

Social Work Futures

Here’s one piece: The need to protect the data in our brains – and – an interview with Dr. Nita Farahany about her new book The Fight for Your Brain. Get involved – this is a very engaging and visionary group. The future of social welfare A gym for your feelings? This one popped out at me this past month.

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Co-Parenting Building Blocks: Interview With an Expert

Relias

It was wonderful to have such great participation and audience engagement from those in attendance. The post Co-Parenting Building Blocks: Interview With an Expert appeared first on Relias. After the webinar, there were a few questions in the chat that we did not have a chance to address during our discussion.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. Source: U.S. isn’t reassuring.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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Reflections and Takeaways from reading Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel’s book, The Genesis Machine

Social Work Futures

As many of us seek to diminish old forms of “carcerality” in our human services/welfare infrastructures – how will these new dynamics potentially and radically deliver new forms of bias, human hierarchies, etc.? Interviews with authors here , here and here. In 2022 – it was less than 100.

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Cutting through the spin about predictive analytics in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Department of Human Services, went to great lengths to spin the results and direct readers toward the spin instead of the reviews themselves. Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit.