Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

The contents for the April 2023 issue include: Editorial: A Liminal Moment in Social Work Liminal moments are times of transition, specifically the time when it is realized that the way things were are over, but the way things will be are not yet clear.

Criminal Justice 94

Criminal Justice Recovery Military Social Worker 94

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Gut instinct says: Children have been dying, as a Journal editorial put it, “seemingly … under the noses” of workers for the Children, Youth and Families Department – so we should rush to tear more children from their parents at the slightest sign of abuse or neglect. But that never works. Read the full column here.

Child Welfare 40

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

We’ll see if she still has that kind of courage when the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times come after her – as they will the next time there’s a high-profile death of a child “known to the system” in these counties.) But it’s not nearly enough.

Foster Care 117

Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare 117

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It’s part editorial, part documentary exposé: A brilliantly presented New York Times Opinion section column on the enormous harm done to children institutionalized in “residential treatment.” The commentary begins this way: It’s known as the troubled teen industry. This is an industry-wide problem." ?

Foster Care 123

Foster Care Schools Mental Health Child Welfare 123

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

● Take a step back, see – and hear – how the family policing system really works in this report from NPR, featuring perspectives from JMAC for Families and NCCPR: ● You know how defenders of computerized racial profiling in family policing (more accurate terms than “predictive analytics” in “child welfare”) defend their biased algorithms by a.

Child Welfare 54

Child Welfare Adoption Foster Care Self-harm 54

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

So he’s back, scapegoating family preservation – and pushing computerized racial profiling, AKA “predictive analytics.” In New Mexico an Albuquerque Journal editorial declared, children are dying “seemingly … under the noses” of the state family policing agency. NCCPR has an op-ed in the Journal about what to do about it. ?

Child Welfare 40

Child Welfare Domestic Violence Foster Care Behavior Analysis 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Further indicating how desperate proponents are to flee from reality is the fact that the high-profile case that started this frenzy doesn’t even involve relatives seeking to care for a child. I’m not linking to any stories because I could not find even one that wasn’t really an editorial in favor of leaving the child apart from her siblings.)

Foster Care 91

Foster Care Child Welfare Adoption Welfare 91