Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. She also works with agencies to train staff in Motivational Interviewing. Todd Sage , Ph.D., MSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

AMHPs lack time for ‘extremely important’ work Almost nine in 10 said pre-assessment contact was ‘extremely important’ (45%) or ‘somewhat important (43%) in building rapport with people due to be assessed under the MHA, while 70% said a pre-assessment interview was likely to help improve outcomes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 17, 2022

In fact, in an interview with Vice News about the same case, Davis said: “I was very grateful that they had attorneys.” The workers interviewed seem anxious to do the same; the story is filled with their proclamations of moral superiority. Abbott at least he might be able to cushion the blow.

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Relias

JUNE 22, 2022

The post Co-Parenting Building Blocks: Interview With an Expert appeared first on Relias. When in doubt, remind the parents that these arrangements are in place for the healthy development of the child — the one thing that both co-parenting parties continue to have in common.

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

Here’s one piece: The need to protect the data in our brains – and – an interview with Dr. Nita Farahany about her new book The Fight for Your Brain. The future of social welfare A gym for your feelings? How Denmark’s welfare state became a surveillance nightmare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Twenty years ago, Penn Law Professor (and NCCPR Board Member) Dorothy Roberts changed the landscape of “child welfare” when she literally wrote the book on racial bias in family policing: Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. Roberts’ interview with Boston Review. Check out Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Recent news stories illustrate both the terrible harm Kentucky’s “child welfare” system inflicts upon its most vulnerable children and the root cause. In more than half the “unsubstantiated” cases the children were not even interviewed before the cases were closed and their claims dismissed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

● Think you know all about the cases at the heart of the current challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act? And now, the new federal report tells us: Instead of the pandemic of child abuse predicted by child welfare establishment fearmongers and their media allies, child abuse went down. The Imprint has a summary.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This is what America's "child welfare" systems call a success story: A family is victimized by a false allegation of child abuse. In an interview, in the presence of someone from the program, they praise the program. After they are cleared, they miss one doctor's appointment for their child, so they are accused again.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent. As a child, she reported drug use in her home to the child welfare agency with the hope it would improve her situation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

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. isn’t reassuring. Caseworkers themselves understand.

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Social Work Futures

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The future of social welfare Growing literature on the futures of long covid as an emerging social and health issue. Great interview of colleague and brilliant futurist Stuart Candy on what futures studies and practice is all about. Here’s a piece from Katherine J.Wu

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And see also The 74’s interview with Darcey Merritt, associate professor of social work at New York University, discussing why CPS should stand for Child Poverty Surveillance. ? Interesting things can happen when what used to be a garden party for the “child welfare” establishment starts inviting in some skunks.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? But things have taken a strange turn in Maine.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

(The agencies call it “child support” but listen closely at 36:23 in, and you’ll hear Imprint editor John Kelly use the R-word :-)) The interview starts at 16:40 in. Commission on Civil Rights says that state needs more safeguards and transparency for such algorithms.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The previous round-up began by comparing a real-life case to the depiction of a dystopian child welfare surveillance state portrayed in Jessamine Chan’s novel The School for Good Mothers Now, Let Grow has a comprehensive comparison between the novel and the real world of family policing. It is not reassuring. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

But just two days after the Parent Map story was published, KFMB-TV in San Diego reported this story: A Marine Corps pilot and his wife are suing the County of San Diego after Child Welfare Services took their seven-month-old son from their home for more than a month after the boy head-butted his mother as he played after breastfeeding.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

am proud to serve on a special committee of the Philadelphia City Council examining the child welfare system in that city. It includes the reflections of a reporter who shows a rare willingness to grapple with ambiguity, complexity and nuance in covering child welfare. We released our report last week.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

The study found that the children to whom this happened “are overwhelmingly Asian American, Black or Native American, raising questions about the impartiality of states’ child welfare systems and policies.” What’s that got to do with child welfare? The problem is something called “induced demand.”

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Community Care

JUNE 5, 2022

In an interview with Community Care following the programme, Herefordshire’s director of children’s services, Darryl Freeman, said there “clearly was a culture of bullying” at the authority.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? Tomorrow: The New York Times published a front-page story about the study that was, mostly, very good.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Also in New York City, Black Agenda Radio interviews Anne Venhuizen of The Bronx Defenders about their big win against the family police – successfully suing the family police agency for tearing a child from her mother at birth because the mother smoked marijuana. The interview starts at 27:15 in. ● I have a blog post about it.

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inSocialWork

JANUARY 19, 2021

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. Show Notes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

? Marketplace Tech interviews Sally Ho and Garance Burke, authors of the Associated Press expose of the highly-touted child welfare predictive analytics algorithm in use in Allegheny County, Pa. In April, the child welfare establishment spreads a message of health terrorism during child abuse awareness month.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The inspectorate interviewed representatives and managers from 10 children’s homes groups and 11 Ofsted employees to investigate how effective its current practices were at holding decision makers at the homes to account. Groups’ influence over children’s homes. Financial oversight.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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Doin' The Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Kelechi is a full-time doctoral student at the University of Kansas in the School of Social Welfare. Kortney is a third-year doctoral student at the University of Kansas and a Professor of Practice in the School of Social Welfare. Kelechi is a full-time doctoral student at the University of Kansas in the School of Social Welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

detector when the evangelists for predictive analytics (basically computerized racial profiling) in child welfare try to sell it at a virtual event at 5:00 p.m. Rise interviews Rutgers Prof. Attending it will be just what you need to tune up your b.s. But guess who took away the kids in the first place.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

In an interview with Salon about her new book, Torn Apart , Prof. The propaganda machine around saving Black children from their families has been very effective, and I think there are a lot of white liberals who want to believe this story: We have a child welfare system that's saving Black children from dysfunctional homes.

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Social Workers Speak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

NASW Director of Public Policy Sarah Butts was interviewed by Fox 26 News in Houston about the need for revamping of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. NASW Michigan Chapter Executive Director Duane Breijak was quoted and featured in a Second Wave Michigan article on a child welfare worker shortage in the state.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In child welfare, we can’t speak truth to power until we speak truth to CASA. The most sacred cow in American child welfare harms the children it is intended to help. The Imprint has an interview with MJ Jihad who founded MJ Consulting “to be doing whatever it takes to have these children remain within their birth family.”

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Social Work Discoveries

JANUARY 29, 2023

In late 2022, myself, and the team from our sister podcast Social Work Stories, travelled to Melbourne, located on the lands of the Kulin Nation, and attended the Australian & New Zealand Social Work, Welfare Education, and Research Symposium, otherwise called ANZSWWER. Hello friends!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fong will be interviewed at the second of these two events sponsored by the City University of New York School of Law. . ● Among those quoted in the story: Kelley Fong, whose new book, Investigating Families has been called by Prof. Martin Guggenheim “the best book of its kind I’ve ever read.”

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Community Care

JULY 11, 2023

Conduct interviews with the child and family members, separately and together as appropriate. This was designed to capture the original intention of section 17, to “safeguard and promote the welfare” of children who are unlikely to reach or maintain “a reasonable standard of health or development” without support.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. That’s not because they want to hurt children, of course. That is almost never true.

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Doin' The Work

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I am incredibly grateful for their participation in this interview. They took over the stage and made demands at the National Conference on Social Welfare (NCSW), walked out, and decided to create their own organization. I am incredibly grateful for their participation in this interview. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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