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Doin' The Work
MARCH 14, 2022
In this episode, I talk with Joyce McMillan and Victoria about the family policing system, also known as the child welfare system. In this episode, I talk with Joyce McMillan and Victoria about the family policing system, also known as the child welfare system.
Doin' The Work
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
We discuss the child welfare system, foster care, family preservation, and various interventions that take place for children and families in this complex system. We discuss the child welfare system, foster care, family preservation, and various interventions that take place for children and families in this complex system. Episode 14 Guest: Ronnita Waters, LCSW Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW www.dointhework.com. Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify.
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Social Work Discoveries
JUNE 2, 2020
All those who contribute to the SW Discoveries Podcast commit to working to shift the practices we undertake here that reinforce the status quo of racism and bigotry that fosters hate and fear, especially in Justice, Law Enforcement and Community Welfare. Hi Listeners, This episode was recorded in collaboration and partnership with the Men’s Health, Information, and Research Center (MHIRC) based at Western Sydney University.
Social Work Discoveries
OCTOBER 30, 2018
You’ll hear Neil discuss his thoughts on a Social Determinants of Health perspective for health and welfare, as well as get an insight into what drives him to conduct the social work research that he does. [link]. Hi Friends, On today’s episode we follow up with Dr Neil Hall. We heard from Neil last episode for the 1 year anniversary of the podcast, and we are very happy to have him back on the podcast for today’s social work research discussion.
Doin' The Work
JANUARY 10, 2022
Kelechi is a full-time doctoral student at the University of Kansas in the School of Social Welfare. Kortney is a third-year doctoral student at the University of Kansas and a Professor of Practice in the School of Social Welfare. And always remember and focus on the communal nature of the Black community and how Black social work and social welfare movements are in that same communal tradition.
Doin' The Work
JANUARY 4, 2021
Laura is the Chair and Professor of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Laura is the Chair and Professor of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Episode 37. Guests: Laura S. Abrams, MSW, PhD; Nicole Vazquez, MSW, MPP. Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. . www.dointhework.com. Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify. Follow on Twitter & Instagram , Like on Facebook. Join the mailing list.
Doin' The Work
MARCH 1, 2021
In this episode, I talk with Kristen Brock-Petroshius, who is a PhD candidate in Social Welfare at UCLA and a community organizer with White People 4 Black Lives in Los Angeles, California. In this episode, I talk with Kristen Brock-Petroshius, who is a PhD candidate in Social Welfare at UCLA and a community organizer with White People 4 Black Lives in Los Angeles, California. Episode 39 Guest: Kristen Brock-Petroshius, MSW Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. www.dointhework.com.
Doin' The Work
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
They took over the stage and made demands at the National Conference on Social Welfare (NCSW), walked out, and decided to create their own organization. They took over the stage and made demands at the National Conference on Social Welfare (NCSW), walked out, and decided to create their own organization. Episode 38 Guests: Garland Jaggers, MSW & Denise McLane-Davison, PhD, AM Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. www.dointhework.com.
Doin' The Work
AUGUST 3, 2020
We discuss accountability and safety, as well as links to child welfare and social work. We discuss accountability and safety, as well as links to child welfare and social work. Episode 32. Guest: K Agbebiyi, MSW. Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. . www.dointhework.com. Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify. Follow on Twitter & Instagram , Like on Facebook. Join the mailing list. Support the podcast. Download transcript.
Doin' The Work
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
We discuss the disproportionate numbers of Black and Brown children, as well as children in poverty, who are removed from their parents, and how racism and systemic oppression set the framework of many child welfare policies and practices. She also talks about how she got into this work, practicing self-care, and shares a message for students interested in working in the child welfare system. Episode 21. Guest: Asia Piña, MSW. Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. . www.dointhework.com.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 2, 2022
It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. child abuse child welfare Connecticut DCF differential response family preservation family resource centers foster care Kelley Fong
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The seeds of Q-Anon and Pizzagate were planted at the McMartin preschool, then grown and nurtured by a lot of “professionals” in "child welfare" who should have known better. And in the 1980s the mainstream child welfare establishment actively promoted satanic panic.
Famcare
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
In child and family services, the mission no longer ends at removing an endangered child from a dysfunctional household but now extends to how a Child Welfare Agency might help the child grow into a productive member of society.
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. Yes, families DO have Fourth Amendment rights when the family police are at the door.
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Even though we had fewer calls, the right calls were coming in and we got to the children who needed us,” the state’s Deputy Director of Child Welfare Practice and Programing, Lacey Andresen, told The Oregonian.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
At last: A group involved in oversight of Maine child welfare that shows a real understanding of the problems. The Maine Child Welfare Advisory Panel (MCWAP) Citizen Review Panel has produced a report with six recommendations. There's some good stuff in this report.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
I single these stories out not because they are exceptionally awful - there’s far worse out there - but precisely because they are so typical of the journalism of child welfare. child abuse child welfare family preservation foster care GroundTruth Project journalism Mountain State Spotlight.
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).
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
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.
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. KEY POINTS ?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 22, 2022
They even acknowledged their own role in “contributing to racism in the legal field” in general and “within the child welfare legal field in particular…” Offhand, I can’t think of an organization that says “establishment” more than the American Bar Association.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. But one reason is the state’s child welfare “ombudsman,” Christine Alberi.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2021
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents.
Famcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
In the United States, there are around 328,120 child welfare employees. But, in the meanwhile, here's how child welfare agencies might better manage greater caseloads. Child Welfare human services software Family and Child Welfare
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 19, 2022
Multiple organizations in Maine – but with the lead organizations dominated by private “providers” have put out a document they’re calling “A Framework for Child Welfare Reform” in that state. They’ve been led, or rather misled, by the state’s child welfare “ombudsman,” Christine Alberi.
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.”
Famcare
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
In 1998, a consortium of child welfare agencies in Missouri were researching the market for web based, social services case management software. FAMCare social services software Family and Child Welfare
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
The column in question touts the value of applying what its authors call “safety science” to child welfare. CECANF child abuse child welfare David Sanders family preservation foster care Safety ScienceA column in The Imprint last month begins by quoting an odd claim made by David Sanders, in the preface to the report of a commission he chaired.
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.)
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 17, 2022
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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. Perhaps Therolf fears that people are finally taking seriously the existence of systemic racial bias in child welfare.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 17, 2021
He claimed “the shutdown decision arguably amounted to a prioritizing of the welfare of certain adults over the welfare of children." Even the head of New York City’s family policing agency (a more accurate term than child welfare agency) has confirmed that the fearmongers were wrong.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 27, 2022
Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. Massachusetts "Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides Consider the relative positions and power of two women in Massachusetts.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents.
Shelter, Inc
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. The implicit biases, which we aren’t even aware of, influence the child welfare system’s disparity.
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. Geographically, Castle Rock and Aurora are less than 30 miles away.
Children and the Law Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2022
First, looking from a historical view of Black families in the early days of the child welfare system showed signs of prejudice and racial processes and procedures.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 1, 2022
Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents.
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