NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in foster care are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias.

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 12, 2023

Morgan State University Professor Anthony Estreet named CEO of the National Association of Social Workers. Morgan State University (MSU) professor Anthony Estreet, Ph.D , has been selected to step into the role of chief executive officer for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). AFRO American Newspapers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Even if they know that can do enormous harm, they may feel obligated to do it because they are mandated reporters. Because that’s what the adverse childhood experience of a child abuse investigation is really all about (except, of course, the toxic environment would be foster care, not a carcinogen factory).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 17, 2022

The column focused on an excellent Washington Post story about one such family – and how wrenching the trauma was, even though they were so well off they could hire two lawyers and a private social worker to fight off CPS; even though they had advance warning of the inspection of their home and even though they were able to limit that inspection.

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Social Workers Speak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Foundation and the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute (HBRT) at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work have been awarded a $3.3 Historically‚ social workers, like teachers and nurses, tended to be women and were undervalued.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in foster care. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. That makes the computer-generated risk score more like a self-fulfilling prophecy than an actual prediction. Anthony Avalos. Gabriel Fernandez. Noah Cuatro.

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Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 5, 2020

What they have in common – is that I think they’ll be of interest to future facing social workers. The child welfare system disproportionately harms Black children and families through systemic over-surveillance, over-involvement, and the resulting adverse outcomes associated with foster care.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. 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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