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6 Challenges of the Human Services Worker

Relias

It’s hard being a human services worker. Let’s take a few minutes to understand these challenges and how human services professionals can work to overcome them. Challenges a human services worker will face. Often, they and/or family members demand specific types of interventions. A shift in roles.

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A child welfare case leads to a stunning dissent from Michigan’s Chief Justice

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America. Raising a child is difficult, even when there is no crisis.

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U.S. Administration for Children and Families Grant Funds Research Project

University of Connecticut

The primary goal of the project is to determine whether the “Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations (BPC)”— a trauma-informed parenting intervention — is effective at promoting child, parent, and family wellbeing among underserved families at-risk for involvement with the child welfare system.

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In Iowa, one more family finds out what it’s like to be on the wrong end of family policing

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

For them, intervention by the family police is, literally, the norm. For the Donlins, their nightmare at the hands of the family police, known in Iowa as the Department of Human Services, consisted of eight months of hypersurveillance and an attempt to take away their young children.

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Case Workers in Family Services Benefit from Social Services Software

Famcare

For those working in child services, an understanding of family situations is vital in being able to help improve child welfare. Fortunately for those agencies, utilizing the right social services software can help streamline processes and effectively “humanize” the various situations.

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Association between Loneliness, Mental Health Symptoms, and Treatment Use among Emerging Adults

Social Work Blog

The authors conclude that the significant impact of loneliness on mental health symptoms and the effect of social support on service use highlight the importance of developing interventions to prevent and reduce loneliness over the life course.

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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. But that has failed repeatedly.