Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Pinto was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The academy is an honorific society of distinguished scholars and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare through high-impact work that advances social good. Professor Rogério M.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Yesterday, in a post about “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work, I noted that Alan Detlaff of the University of Houston, who has dedicated his career to fighting racism in family policing (a more accurate term than “child welfare”) had been ousted as the Dean of the university’s Graduate College of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The same scholar who claims predictive analytics in child welfare isn’t biased also signs on to an extremist agenda calling for an automatic, mandatory extra level of family police surveillance of thousands of impoverished families. She also misunderstands abolition and mocks the words of a Black child welfare activist. UPDATE, OCT.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A “scholar” who insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare writes a “predictive analytics” algorithm for the State of California. Somehow, the contract to write a so-called “independent ethics review” of the algorithm is given to another “scholar” who also insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Even though the ethics review for that one was co-authored by a faculty colleague of one of the creators of the algorithm, it cautioned that one reason AFST is ethical is that it does not attempt to stamp the scarlet number on every child at birth – something known as “universal-level risk stratification.” One of the ethics reviewers, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania Law School is quite a piece of work. The school’s Dean, Theodore Ruger, has written a letter urging the University to consider imposing a “major sanction” against the self-proclaimed “race realist.” She also condemned the Indian Child Welfare Act. They also include Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” There are many such groups. Oh, don’t get me wrong.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

International Seminar on Social Welfare in Asia and the Pacific Rim 2023 The Role and Future of Social Welfare Practitioners during a Global Crisis－ COVID-19, war, and the economic instability that followed threatened the lives of people living in countries around the world, shaking the very foundations that allowed people to live their lives.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

In Pennsylvania, lawmakers expanded the pool of who qualifies as a mandated reporter in the wake of the Penn State University child sex abuse scandal. Time for the token quote from a Black person Some reporters at the Globe seem to have a lot of trouble quoting Black people about child welfare. Here’s a case in point from 2020.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 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. ? Anna Arons of New York University School of law who called it, “An Unintended Abolition.”

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 30, 2023

This 7-year collaboration was celebrated at its 2022 conference hosted by the University of Malta( Valetta) attended by 9 participating universities & parent-centred organisations with staff, service users and students well represented. A return visit to Potsdam is planned for summer 2023.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

Alexander Rubin , LCSW, is a clinical assistant professor based in field education at the University at Buffalo School of School of Social Work. Michael Lynch , LMSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. Todd Sage , Ph.D., Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. Writing in The Imprint , Prof. We wouldn’t even allow a slight deviation from the rules. Lawyers would scream.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They urged the Supreme Court to “uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act’s constitutionality in all respects.”

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 12, 2024

Mathematica and Innovations Institute have partnered to advance policymakers’ understanding of how Medicaid and child welfare agencies ensure youth in the child welfare system receive access to health care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Watch the bodycam footage – but don’t watch it quite yet, since it might prompt you to jump to a conclusion that some of America’s leading child welfare “scholars” want you to know couldn’t possibly correct. Peoples, ( OK, you can look now) you might be tempted to conclude that there is racial bias in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The fundamental fact of American “child welfare” is that if you’re not white and affluent the system will discriminate against you. That’s not unique to “child welfare” of course, but the field seems to be “in denial” about it to an extraordinary degree.) The case also illustrates bigger problems. ? Similarly, the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 12, 2023

See also: The review in The New Yorker The review in Publisher’s Weekly Asgarian’s interview with the Los Angeles Times And after that, you can sign up for Asgarian’s April 6 book talk with the upEND Movement at the University of Houston (it’s both in person and livestreamed).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2022

The former Times reporter and still their go-to guy for child welfare stories continues to soft-peddle racial bias. He’s a former Los Angeles Times reporter and current Times contributor via his current job with the University of California, Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program. Questions were screened in advance.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system. About Emporia State University. Learn more at www.kvc.org.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2023 America’s massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. That’s why we’ve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove” anything. I have a blog post about it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Deadric Williams, during one of his lectures at the University of Tennessee. In “child welfare,” or, as it should be called family policing, the Scooby Gang is getting desperate. She has turned her Twitter feed into the “child welfare” equivalent of Fox News - devoting it almost exclusively to horror stories about child abuse deaths.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

But, thanks in part to Sarah Font of the Penn State University “Child Maltreatment Solutions Network” (or, as it should be called the Penn State University Penance Institute ) , I have a new theory. And adoption isn’t always the happily-ever-after that it’s often claimed to be.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Practitioners from the communities have produced a guide to carrying out welfare enquiries to help social workers and others support families affected by the measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. ” Welfare enquiries ‘not routinely carried out’. “So social workers need to separate those two things.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 26, 2023

OUR STUDY Our team at Florida State University (FSU) sought to study differences in access to, retention throughout, and effectiveness of therapy across gender, ethnic, and racial groups in our local community of Leon County, Florida. she/her) is a 4 th year student in the Clinical Psychology doctoral program at Florida State University.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

However, it also found that “the lack of information sharing for child welfare or safeguarding contrasted sharply with well-developed information-sharing processes for immigration control purposes”. An assumption that families were not really destitute and were fraudulent sometimes took precedence over child welfare concerns,” it added.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

There is a graphic making the rounds in child welfare that’s gotten a fair amount of attention lately. David Finkelhor and his colleagues at the University of New Hampshire. Then Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago used it in a PowerPoint presentation of its own. It was created by Prof.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Get Involved (Advocate) Child Abuse Prevention Month Digital Advocacy Day 2024 [link] Trainings and Resources Social Workers Out-Front on the Harms of Corporal Punishment [link] NASW Social Work Talks Podcast Supporting Families to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect EP84: Supporting Families To Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect (socialworkers.org) Shielding (..)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anna Arons of New York University School of Law, in which she summarized her landmark study “An Unintended Abolition.” The focus was New York City, but it’s just as applicable anywhere else in America – indeed, in most places the harm done by family policing is even greater and even more widespread.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 23, 2024

On April 17, the University of Connecticut (UConn) Office of the Provost announced awards of promotion and/or tenure to faculty, including the School of Social Work’s Kathryn Libal, Ph.D.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Mary McKay, the outgoing President of the Board of the American Academy of Social Work and Soc i al Welfare (AASWSW), announced the results of the society’s recent elections, which selected Michael A. Dr. Lindsey is Dean and Paulette Goddard Professor of Social Work at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Dr. Suh Sangmok, ICSW Global President, President of Korea National Council on Social Welfare. Lynne Healy, IASSW, University of Connecticut, USA. Alexandra Mustafa, Federal University of Pernambuco and Iara Nunes, Brazil. Reaching nutritionally vulnerable social groups: the quest for multifaceted policy response.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m. In the Albany Times Union, NCCPR offers some answers. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Here's step one: Right now, we're seeing the child welfare establishment respond to calls for abolition by talking about "system transformation." The University of Baltimore School of Law hosted a webinar about the stakes as the U.S. Supreme Court considers the Indian Child Welfare Act.

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