Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

Money is the one thing we don’t often talk about when we are in social work. And I probably was earning less than what the local Singaporean social workers were earning. The point of this article isn’t to tell you to quit social work. If you’re considering the move into social work , here’s an honest perspective.

Domestic Violence 130

Domestic Violence Social Worker Social Services Social Services 130

Social Work Bubble

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Social workers are often told, alongside the pity glance, that the field is low pay & you’ll burn yourself out trying to survive. Though I agree that the field is terribly underpaid and undervalued, I do believe that too much weight is given to the underpaid aspect of social work. Micro Level.

Interviewing 52

Interviewing Private Practice Social Worker Psychology 52

Social Workers Speak

JUNE 1, 2023

The case studies overview the activities undertaken by cohort members to ensure that emergency rental assistance (ERA) was visible and accessible to the lowest-income households in their communities and that ERA succeeded in preventing displacement. Yvonne Chase is president-elect of NASW: When should social workers separate families?

Code of Ethics 52

Code of Ethics Mental Health Social Worker Therapist 52

Social Workers Speak

JUNE 1, 2023

The case studies overview the activities undertaken by cohort members to ensure that emergency rental assistance (ERA) was visible and accessible to the lowest-income households in their communities and that ERA succeeded in preventing displacement. Yvonne Chase is president-elect of NASW: When should social workers separate families?

Code of Ethics 40

Code of Ethics Mental Health Social Worker Therapist 40

Social Work With Adults

OCTOBER 7, 2021

‘Mental health in an unequal world’ is this year’s theme for World Mental Health Day – and it’s one which speaks to all social workers working alongside people living with mental health conditions. Social isolation, loneliness and self-neglect have been major issues for communities. The pandemic and mental health.

Mental Health 96

Mental Health Social Worker Empathy Advocacy 96

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

● Three weeks ago, ProPublica exposed the duplicity of New York City’s family police agency as it publicly said it favored caseworkers informing families of their rights - while working behind the scenes to gut legislation to require just that. One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It

Child Welfare 70

Child Welfare Foster Care Disability Confidentiality 70

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

With CJMR there’s no way to protect your family from government agencies taking your most basic, and in some cases, most private data, and turning it against you. ● It aims to stamp a scarlet number risk score on EVERY child at birth. There is no opportunity for any family to opt-out or deny the use of their personal data.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Self-harm 98

Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Reading is an important part of social work education and professional development. Social Work Quotes. Social Work Quotes. This Article contains: How do you write a social work article? This Article contains: How do you write a social work article? What topics are covered in social work articles?

Code of Ethics 52

Code of Ethics Substance Abuse Justice and Corrections Social Worker 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In a second story, an overwhelmed grandmother seeks help from Florida’s family police agency. It’s called Dorothy Roberts Tried to Warn Us: The legal scholar and sociologist wrote about the criminalization of pregnancy 25 years ago. Why didn’t more listen? Roberts wrote this Five Myths column for The Washington Post.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Domestic Violence Foster Care 98

Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Stephen Wanczyk-Karp, executive director of the Connecticut chapter of the National Association of Social Workers , said the intent was to make sure there were no weapons in a house that someone could use against themselves or others. “I Yvonne Chase is president-elect of NASW: Child’s death, other breakdowns raise questions for DFCS.

Mental Health 40

Mental Health Social Worker Advocacy Addiction 40

Reimagining Social Work

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We are often told that the confluence of poverty, inequality and entry into the child protection system is not something that child welfare services can address. Child protection focuses on the risk of harm to children and the circumstances of their families. I have trouble accepting this proposition. History has legs.

Child Welfare 40

Child Welfare Welfare Engagement Interventional 40

Relias

JULY 20, 2023

which has more than triple the rate of most other high-income countries. Maternal mortality is closely linked to social and behavioral factors As documented extensively, higher U.S. Social determinants of health Individuals and communities that are negatively impacted by social factors experience more negative health impacts.

Hospitals 40

Hospitals Medicaid Mental Health Medicare 40

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Editor’s note: This post was written by Melanie Sage from the University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a follow-up to her post – A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19. How did COVID-19 create the perfect storm for social worker burnout?

Social Worker 130

Social Worker Child Welfare Justice and Corrections Schools 130

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Child Welfare League of America, a trade association for public and private family policing agencies, many of which are paid for each day they hold a child in foster care, called CAPTA “foundational to the country’s ability to prevent child abuse and neglect.” Nah, just kidding. maybe it’s poverty, but it’s not just poverty.

Child Welfare 115

Child Welfare Foster Care Domestic Violence Welfare 115

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The Tribune is still pushing the Big Lie of American “child welfare” – the idea that any bill that protects children from being traumatized by the family police and forced into the hellscape of Texas foster care is a “parents’ rights” bill that supposedly comes at the expense of child safety. . But it still has a long way to go.

Child Welfare 94

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Confidentiality 94

Social Workers Speak

APRIL 22, 2022

One transgender man quit his job as a child welfare worker in Texas after having to investigate families of trans kids for child abuse. Morgan Davis saw his job as an investigator in the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services as a calling. You know, most of them are social workers. Will it get past the adults?

Child Welfare 40

Child Welfare Mental Health Welfare Social Worker 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Here’s what they told NBC10 Boston , which was first to report the story: The couple is quick to point out their ordeal turned out better than many other removal situations, especially for minority and low-income parents. His parents noticed that this often happened immediately after the twice-weekly visits from DCF workers.

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Child Welfare Mental Health Psychiatry 98

Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 13, 2022

Nneka Njideka, a licensed clinical social worker in Brooklyn, N.Y. , Some say harsher sentences over DCFS worker assaults won’t prevent them. “If we’re serious about protecting social workers, then we have to start spending the resources and the money to actually do that,” said Kyle Hillman with NASW-IL.

Domestic Violence 40

Domestic Violence Social Worker Therapist Mental Health 40

Social Workers Speak

APRIL 8, 2022

The interaction — in which officers de-escalated a situation and then deferred to trained outreach workers — offers a model for the future that New York officials say they envision as they try to address the large numbers of unsheltered people in the subway system in part by boosting the role of social workers and health professionals.

Nursing Home 40

Nursing Home Telehealth Mental Health Social Worker 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The lockdowns had begun and news media and social media were flooded with claims such as these: ? And, in addition to all the other harm done to children by the trauma of a needless child abuse investigation, such investigations intrude not only on people, but on bedrooms, cupboards and closets as workers look them over.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Schools Advocacy 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. For part one, which illustrates how the horror stories go in all directions, click here. Suppose you are very rich. In September you send your son off to boarding school.

Child Welfare 103

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 103