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Sharon Shoesmith: how social workers can get their professional pride back

Community Care

Finley Boden (photo: Derbyshire Constabulary) After Finley was born, social workers from Derbyshire County Council removed him from his parents because they believed he was at risk of significant harm: the house was squalid, there was a risk of domestic abuse and both parents smoked medium to high levels of cannabis.

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10 Resources for Social Workers to Learn More About Tech Justice Futures Right Now

Social Work Futures

Or resist, interrogate and complicate deployment of tech and datafication of modern life? Tech justice-related learning should be a regular priority for every social worker in practice and every social work student. Lean into new tech opportunities – explore, experiment or develop new applications?

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Sukhmani Singh Presented Research at Sentencing Commission Hearing

University of Connecticut

These historic rulings held that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for youth 17 or younger when they were convicted of violent crimes is unconstitutional. Singh was joined by Adler and SSW graduate student Fernando Valenzuela. Public Act 15-84 was passed in Connecticut in 2015 following two Supreme Court rulings: Graham v.

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NASW Member Voices: Using Collaborative Poetry to center student voices, create connection and celebrate diversity

Social Work Blog

By Amber Sutton, PhD, LICSW As part of a BSW diversity course at Auburn University at Montgomery in Alabama, I used a collaborative poetry exercise as a way to center the lived experiences of the students and to showcase how research can be creative and meaningful. We are from… The Earth; the tree of life. from Wetumpka and Lanett.

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A chilling dispatch from Saviorland: A new book reveals the true nature of an institution widely touted by those who want to institutionalize more children. It also reveals a whole lot more.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Now it’s a book: Invisible Child, published today by Random House. But since the Times chose the section dealing with one startling turn in Dasani’s life, I’ll focus on that as well. It’s a boarding school for impoverished students – and boarding is required, even for students who live nearby. That’s mine! That’s mine!”

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Drivers Act Will Open Doors for Foster Youth

Beyond Advocacy

in Room 2075 in the Rayburn House Office Building on H.R. Davis (D-IL-7) and Don Bacon (R-NE-2) reintroduced the bill in the House, and Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Todd Young (R-IN) reintroduced the bill in the Senate. The bill was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Finance Committee in the Senate.

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Members in the News – September 5, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Jennifer Kellman is a member of NASW-FL: 2 major back-to-school stressors and how parents can help, according to experts CBS News As kids return to classrooms across the country, back-to-school stress is certainly on the minds of many students and parents alike. ” Brooke Schwartz is a member of NASW-CA: Moving Away To College?

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