Social Work Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

Social services use is a critical aspect in the field, and the current study seeks to better understand the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and social services use. Do family characteristics have any association with parental social services use?

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 2, 2023

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey , 42 percent of high school students report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, and 22 percent reported seriously attempting suicide in 2021. It is much worse for girls.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Foster Care Medicaid Schizophrenia 52

Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

There are twice as many children in kinship care in the UK than there are in foster care, yet this type of care remains largely invisible – to the public and policymakers, but often to professionals too. It should also extend to other services, such as housing, that kinship carers need help with. By Dr Lucy Peake.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. Louis Post-Dispatch : It’s foster parents who now have this official freedom. to tell young people about it. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Staff know this underestimates the trauma of investigation and underestimates the even worse trauma of foster care. Though not mentioned in the report, it also underestimates the enormous risk of abuse in foster care itself. In the report, staff also acknowledged the role of what’s been called “defensive social work.”

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Adoption Community Outreach 52

University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the School of Social Work is able to offer a number of scholarship opportunities to our BSW and MSW students each academic year. This scholarship, created by Mary and her late husband, Raymond, will provide financial support to a student enrolled in the Bachelor of Social Work program.

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