NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

But then the ugly politics of two states got in the way. Nobody in the Massachusetts child-welfare system wanted to take another potentially deadly risk involving the interstate compact. It’s been nurtured at every turn by the state’s foremost advocate for a take-the-child-and-run approach to “child welfare,” Maria Mossaides.

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 23, 2024

Since 2007, Libal has taught at both the School of Social Work (SSW) and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute (HRI), specializing in human rights, refugee resettlement, social welfare and qualitative research methods. Megan Berthold , Scott Harding and several doctoral students in social work.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Benefits for the Host country include: Strengthening the stakeholder relationships at the national and regional level Making the profession visible Political impact within the host country Strengthening the host member’s involvement Applications from Africa and the Middle East will be prioritised.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Guest Anjana Samant of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project says that “I definitely see work in the child welfare system as a core, just basic ACLU bread-and-butter of civil liberties fight.” ● Samant also discusses the enormous harm of predictive analytics algorithms in child welfare.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Scottish government promises to tackle health and social care crisis to protect weakest and poorest UK politics live – latest news updates The Scottish government has promised to spend another £1bn on tackling the crisis in health and social care by raising taxes on higher earners and holiday homes.

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inSocialWork

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Our guests recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare focusing on issues related to trans folks in social work education and practice.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the story: Appalling cases of beating or rape of children are a major political motivation behind child protective services (CPS) and their habit of “child separation,” or taking kids from their families and placing them into foster or group homes. The story is called “Slash Child Abuse With One Simple Trick: Cash ” ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Here’s what you’ll find in it: PREFATORY MATERIAL Editor’s Note—Growth in Unprecedented Times, Nicolás Quaid Galván Foreword—Strengthened Bonds: Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well Being, Nancy D. I have a blog post about why that’s a problem, and why so much of the journalism of child welfare has failed. ?

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

The future of social welfare A gym for your feelings? How Denmark’s welfare state became a surveillance nightmare. Making the social welfare stat fit for the future: Commission launches new EU high-level group is an overview of how the EU is exploring and planning for the future of “social care” systems evolution.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) are delighted to launch the theme for the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development 2024: “ Buen Vivir: Shared Future for Transformative Change “.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 27, 2022

She initiated a national effort to modernize the social work profession, helping to establish a new vision of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) emphasizing the role of social work in policy and politics. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work. In 2003, she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from NASW.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

Dorothy Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of NCCPR’s Board of Directors, just wrote a book called Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. The first, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare was published 20 years ago. She’s right.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

With the Indian Child Welfare Act facing a challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court, The Imprint reports that “a new think tank has formed to advance legal and political strategies to protect tribal sovereignty.” ● Is there a state where so-called “child abuse pediatricians” aren’t allegedly out of control?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Once again the suffering of poor people will enrich some child welfare establishment group or other. At worst it could go to some awful group like Prevent Child Abuse America, which falsely defines the issue as poverty causing neglect when the bigger issue is poverty itself confused with neglect.

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 24, 2023

Creative ways of anticipating future needs and engaging local communities in planning are featured, and tensions present in this kind of work as it co-exists with other vital, urgent and important social, political and economic needs. Their responses ranged from anger to despair.

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Social Work Discoveries

APRIL 10, 2023

Angelika is the Head of the institute of Social Work and Social Pedagogy at Leuphana, with her research and teaching focused on gender studies, inclusion and youth welfare.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Since September 2023, Matarese has been hosted in Ireland by the University of Galway, School of Political Science and Sociology, Social Work Programme.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 10, 2023

By bringing together internationally recognised authors and expertise to focus on an array of issues and concerns this series will reinforce social work as a global profession contributing to the significantly important area of social and welfare policy, education, and practice. tannt@suss.edu.sg tannt@suss.edu.sg

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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. My book about the political history of child protection in Aotearoa is due for publication in late January 2022. The drive to undermine these structures and assimilate M?ori

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Doin' The Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

The Child Maltreatment Solutions Network itself owes far more to politics and scholarship. In what passes for “child welfare” in America, nothing is more important than coddling white middle-class adults. The latest reminder comes from Prof. Sarah Font of Penn State University’s so-called “Child Maltreatment Solutions Network.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

But leaving that aside, this odious law has done one thing that’s worthwhile: It bridged America’s great political divide. The real story of COVID-19 and “child welfare” was not a “pandemic of child abuse” -- that never happened. The state’s child welfare “ombuds” investigated and found that KING got it right. Well, OK, I do.

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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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Swhelper

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In the 1980s and 1990s, concerns about teen pregnancy voiced by policymakers and pundits helped garner support for welfare reform – as the public reached a consensus that teen pregnancy contributes to poverty and was encouraged by overly lenient welfare programs.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

African American Leadership: An Empowerment Tradition in Social Welfare History by Iris B. The book discusses the birth of social welfare activities, both informal and formal, and introduces founding members of organizations such as the National Urban League and the National Association of Colored Women. Carlton-LaNey, Editor.

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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). The New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. New York’s institutional providers of family defense prepared in-depth written testimony that is a report in itself. As I read it, I had to stop every few pages.

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The Vintage Social Worker

AUGUST 10, 2020

I suppose I could have worked it out as our welfare structures today owe much to the Poor Law. A huge success in terms of its outcomes at every level for the young people, for the staff , the purses of the political masters and society. Who knew the origins of fostering were in the workhouse system, not me. To be positive.

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Reimagining Social Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Change is needed in child welfare and in social work more broadly if we are to begin to realise a social justice mandate. It has become blindingly obvious that there are fundamental disjunctions between the way that the profession of social work likes to see itself and the reality of policy and practice. In this […]

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The Licensed Clinical Social Worker Exam

MAY 9, 2018

That includes four subsections: social welfare, public participation, public emergencies, and social and political action. Social and Political Action This one's got several paragraphs--we covered it in an earlier post. As it says there, it shouldn't take you by surprise to see this material appear on the exam.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Amidst growing societal political polarization, the landmark Duarte et al. Nonetheless, we bear responsibility towards the public welfare. What might be some of the ways in which one’s ideology (values, worldview, political affiliation) affect clinical practice? Publish or politic: Referee bias in manuscript review.

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The Guardian

APRIL 16, 2023

Welfare groups claim information could be used by Home Office to deport asylum seekers Police have been collecting the sensitive data of unaccompanied child asylum seekers and sharing it with immigration enforcement, sparking fears it could be used against them for their deportation. Continue reading.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The book includes a historical, global overview of women in social work, political, social justice, and other leadership positions. Mentoring Women for Leadership can serve as a guide for educators, students, practitioners, and administrators to support the growth and development of female leaders.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Global Agenda, developed by the International Federation of Social Workers, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the International Council on Social Welfare, calls for multilevel responses to concerns such as forced migration, air pollution, ecoanxiety, and food and water insecurity.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Even this mild preference has the all-purpose loophole “best interests of the child” – the most dangerous phrase in the child welfare lexicon since “best interests” is subject to the whims – and prejudices – of those making the decisions. Emphasis added.] But even this is more than some Kansas lawmakers can stomach.

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Social Workers Speak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) reached a potential news audience of more than 335 million readers in October, thanks to coverage of abortion rights protests in North Carolina and articles in Politico on the association’s position on several political issues. The article had a potential reach of 141,000 readers.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The following list of presentations and sessions represents the wide range of scholarship that School of Social Work researchers are engaged in, including human rights, child welfare, COVID-19, political social work, refugee and immigrant rights, and more. Presentation: “At the Table or on the Menu: Political Social Work Since 2016”.

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The Guardian

MARCH 15, 2023

The warning came as ministers unveiled a range of measures to try to drive more people back into the workplace, including scrapping controversial “fit for work” tests for disabled claimants and stepping up the threat of benefit curbs against part-time workers.

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