The International Association Of Schools Of Social

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Hello Everyone, I am excited to share with you the fact that an Instructor’s Manual has recently been released for the third edition of my book Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions (Cognella, 2023). I have also incorporated more examples outside the U.S.,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

The American Civil Liberties Union is doing what it does best – suing. Even President Biden weighed in, condemning Texas for “weaponizing child protective services against loving families.” Had Barr proposed such legislation, it’s reasonable to expect that civil libertarians would have responded with fury.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 14, 2023

Moreover, the global community is also grappling with complex socio-economic, political, religious, and environmental challenges, which directly and indirectly impact South Africa negatively. When faced with complex national, regional, and global challenges, social service professionals serve as beacons of hope.

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Doin' The Work

APRIL 24, 2023

They offer one of the country’s only Political Social Work programs and an Abolitionist Focused Learning Opportunity. Located in the heart of Houston, the program is guided by their bold vision to achieve social, racial, economic, and political justice, local to global.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 14, 2023

Moreover, the global community is also grappling with complex socio-economic, political, religious, and environmental challenges, which directly and indirectly impact South Africa negatively. When faced with complex national, regional, and global challenges, social service professionals serve as beacons of hope.

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Beyond Advocacy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

We will remain focused on the theme Social Work and the Future of Democracy because our current political system remains in peril. We are not looking to channel young social workers into the political arena. Some are trying to decide whether to enter public service or seek opportunities in the nonprofit sector.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

As the headline on this story from Colorado Politics puts it: “Judge wrong to terminate mom's parental rights without her or her lawyer present, appeals court says.” ● The New York Civil Liberties Union has a blog post about that study , commissioned by New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, in which ACS workers (..)

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

Important book out this past year by Erica Chenowth called Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know. This includes building capacity for a rapid response network against fascist policies.​ Opportunities to get involved are included on the website. Get involved – this is a very engaging and visionary group.

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Doin' The Work

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Transcription services provided by FIU’s Disability Resource Center. . that is building political power and having a major impact on legislative policy. Transcription services provided by FIU’s Disability Resource Center. . that is building political power and having a major impact on legislative policy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

In what is, in many ways, a very good commentary, Post opinion columnist Alyssa Rosenberg pulled it all together : from Tucker Carlson’s suggestion that family policing agencies (aka “child protective services”) investigate parents who make their children wear masks (which never happened) to Texas Gov. She’s right.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Commission on Civil Rights is examining racism in the New York family policing system (a more accurate term than “child welfare” system). Having cases scheduled and called with no regard whatsoever of the parent’s schedule, obligations, or the arduous demands of court ordered services; 3. The New York Advisory Committee to the U.S.

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We understand our distinctive knowledge complements that of other disciplines to provide effective services (British Association of Social Work 2018) What is the Law? Such peers are appointed by the monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister, who receives advice on who to put forward from a non-political Appointments Commission (Rabb, 2021).

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

The selection process was based on their merit, academic achievements, and involvement in political activism. The top spot belongs to Dr. Angela Davis, an American political activist and scholar who helped to create the field of social justice. He was made a CBE in 2009 for his services to disabled people.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JULY 2, 2022

The Charter is initially submitted as an invitation and call to action to the world’s leaders at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum and General Assembly. They have not yet served the people they represent. This has been reinforced by global agencies as a key method for eliminating poverty but has not yet been implemented.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

JUNE 9, 2022

When we think about what childhood for nonbinary youth may be like, we might think about bullying nonbinary youth in school, “coming out” to parents, and current political clashes about what schools are allowed to teach about gender and sexuality. For TTY Users: Use your preferred relay service or dial 711 then 1-800-273-8255.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution.

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Your managers will read your assessments, and so will other professionals working with a service user. I won’t be so blasé as to claim that an assessment ‘writes itself’ when you really know a service user, but it helps. See Chapter 6 on the challenges of confronting deliberate lies by service users or professionals.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

News 2 obtained the logs for more than 500 calls made to two neighboring Department of Children’s Services (DCS) transitional homes in Davidson County between Jan. 27 of this year. The reports show multiple instances where police were called to the homes for fights, criminal activity, theft, and reports of a person with a weapon. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

These stories appeared just in March and April of 2023: ● In San Diego , KNSD-TV reports , A San Diego mother filed a $10 million wrongful death claim against the county last month, saying Child Welfare Services failed her 11-year-old biological daughter, Aarabella McCormack, who died in the hospital last August. Beat the children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Yet Therolf and Hamilton present it not just as a solution to the problems plaguing the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but the only viable solution. Those pesky civil libertarians! Darn those pesky civil libertarians! It was tried first in criminal justice – and proven to be racially biased.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I come at this from the political Left. Although concerns that [child welfare services] already entails “state surveillance” of poor and minority families make such proposals controversial, there is historical precedent for requiring home visits as a condition of receiving public assistance. UPDATE: She is now! ]

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The Guardian

APRIL 25, 2024

Enrico La Rocca helped expose profound failures but less than a year later was dismissed by the DWP – and then later rehired Sunak under pressure to grant carers amnesty Almost exactly five years ago, Enrico La Rocca was hailed by MPs as a hero, a whistleblower whose tenacity had helped expose profound failures at the heart of the government’s vast (..)

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

He also cites the McKinsey research mentioned already, as well as research undertaken by an American professor of economics who found that an increase in racial diversity of one standard deviation increased productivity by more than 25 per cent in legal, health and financial services. Altogether, the Convention has 54 articles.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Around 100,000 civil servants from multiple government agencies have voted to strike in a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs According to Pat Leahy , political editor of the Irish Times, the Irish government is doubtful about the prospect of a breakthrough in the coming weeks in the talks on the Northern Ireland protocol.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

Serving women wearing hairnets and food service outfits stood at the head of the room handing out meals on plastic plates. She pressed hard, however the early morning nursing staff remained polite but adamant. Kathy Lopato kept conversations moving and civil and made sure that everybody who wanted to speak could.

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