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PC-Care: In-Home PCIT Intervention for Children

inSocialWork

In this episode, Lindsay Armendariz and Brandi Hawk discuss Parent-Child Care (PC-Care), a brief intervention designed to respond to the needs of parents, foster parents and children in the child welfare system. Interviewer: Annette Semanchin-Jones, PhD. Lindsay Anne Forte Armendariz, M.S. Brandi Hawk , Ph.D.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 27, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Shanta Trivedi, faculty director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore School of Law, write about the need to repeal the law that did so much to get us into this mess, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. Instead, she said, she was placed with a foster family.

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Office of Research and Scholarship Update – Winter 2022

University of Connecticut

School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center conference: The case against CASA

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

During my time at UConn, learning how to work with different groups of people and learning different interventions will help me expand my knowledge even further after graduation. My goal for my final year is to do a clinical internship working with children. My focused area of study is Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan.

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Cutting through the spin about predictive analytics in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Even though the ethics review for that one was co-authored by a faculty colleague of one of the creators of the algorithm, it cautioned that one reason AFST is ethical is that it does not attempt to stamp the scarlet number on every child at birth – something known as “universal-level risk stratification.” One of the ethics reviewers, Prof.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

With a few notable exceptions (generally written by nonwhite reporters), the Globe follows the party line of those whose 19 th Century counterparts proudly called themselves “child savers” – that massive intervention into families is needed to keep children safe. Dorothy Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania gets exactly two sentences.