Social Work Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

April Ferguson, LCSW-C Senior Practice Associate for Children and Adolescents NASW continues its collaboration with Sesame Workshop (SW) and recently partnered for a roundtable discussion regarding parental addiction. SW is a nonprofit impact organization whose mission is to help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are two very important things to know about the process by which a child welfare agency removes a child from a parent and places that child with some other kinship caregiver. And that assumes the child will even come home. Kinship foster care cushions the blow, but the harm of removal is still present.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed. However, there is some hope in the form of federal assistance for the child welfare system.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

FAVOR has developed a language that social workers and others can use to talk with the public and policymakers about recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. EP13: Facing the Opioid Crisis [Podcast]: Opioid addiction has become a public health crisis in the United States.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

That includes meth and heroin addicts, but also hundreds of marijuana users and even some people who didn’t know they were pregnant. Hospital staff are required to report positive drug tests to the child welfare agency, and sometimes women lose custody of newborns and older children. The consequences go beyond the jailhouse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s one of the most common knee-jerk assumptions in family policing, (AKA “child welfare”): A parent with a drug problem can’t possibly raise a child – and any parent who relapses has “chosen” drugs over her children. I know my mom struggled with addiction, but I was always in a clean home with clean clothes," she said. "I

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 29, 2023

Betty Ford was addicted to booze and pills, and had mental health problems. They couldn’t keep him alive for two weeks, two weeks ,” the father told the Associated Press … The story reminded me of another parent with a similar history of addiction. Unlike Blodgett, this addict got hooked on booze, too. "I I wasn’t getting high.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When Honolulu Civil Beat reached out to NCCPR for comment on the findings of a study, done by the state’s own Court Improvement Project, of what really happens in child welfare court hearings, I said: “What this report tells us is that Hawaii doesn’t really have a court system for ‘child welfare’ cases at all.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! the White House.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

The study in question, from 1998, says that if a child experiences enough of them, it can cause serious health problems. The study makes no reference to high scores meaning the subject’s parents are “Addicts, Alcoholics, Mentally Ill, Violent, Criminal, Deadbeats.” ACEs have become quite the fad.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Somehow, however, this most essential and defining aspect of being human has been overshadowed or cast aside in the industry known as child welfare. Among those who understand this are the former director of the federal Children’s Bureau, Jerry Milner, and his Special Assistant, David Kelly.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

I know my mom struggled with addiction, but I was always in a clean home with clean clothes," she said. "I I was never hungry, made good grades, involved in sports, and my mom never missed a game." Her experience in foster care was far worse. ? That is just simply false. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

● When the miracle cure turns out to be snake oil: There’s still another problem with Pittsburgh's predictive analytics “child welfare” algorithm. The Montana Free Press has a good rundown on the status of a whole series of excellent bills being considered in a state that, until now, has been anything but a leader in “child welfare.”

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

FAVOR has developed a language that social workers and others can use to talk with the public and policymakers about recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. He recommends that we look at the opioid addiction pandemic through a harm-reduction lens, rather than a punitive one.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

Many people experience overwhelming challenges such as mental illness, trauma, addiction, poverty, homelessness, unemployment and more every day. child welfare services are provided or managed by the government agency in each state. Interested in feeling the joy and purpose that come from helping others? In the U.S.,

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

We celebrate the inspiring ways children and adults have healed from serious challenges like strained family relationships, mental health needs, addiction, loneliness and hopelessness. Child welfare professional feels growing empathy for families – Kimberly Vaughn, KVC Kansas.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Virgin Islands Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Armed Forces Americas Armed Forces Europe Armed Forces Pacific State ZIP Code Type of Agency * Behavioral Health Child Welfare Education Juvenile Services Other If you answered "other" above, please specify below: Specify the type of setting (select all that apply).

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Substance Abuse and Social Work: Working with People Struggling With Addiction: This article explains how social workers can support those struggling with addiction, from helping them access substance abuse treatment to providing emotional support throughout the process of recovery. Addressing substance abuse and addiction issues.

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KVC

JUNE 13, 2023

We celebrate the inspiring ways children and adults have healed from serious challenges like strained family relationships, mental health needs, addiction, loneliness and hopelessness. Storytelling’s power is why, each year, KVC Health Systems holds a Story Contest. We received many entries to our 2022 Story Contest.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Partnerships with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Department of Children and Families, and the Office of Early Childhood have led to an increase in both scholarly output and funding that will benefit individuals, families, and communities – particularly those representing marginalized groups.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Counsellor : They provide counselling and emotional support to individuals and families facing a wide range of challenges, including mental health issues, addiction, and crisis situations. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Gorsuch found that investigators were too often equating poverty with neglect, they didn’t understand addiction and might remove a child because one household member was using drugs even when another relative in the home could care for the child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Yet it almost never is challenged by journalists reporting on child welfare. Yet in the case of the story quoting Golbert and many, many others, it is common in child welfare to view parents as so sub-human they’re not even worth talking to. It’s the same claim that appears in scores of news stories.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. In this video , one of Britains foremost child welfare scholars, Prof. Its not just the United States.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

In Los Angeles County, WitnessLA begins a multi-part in-depth series on the failure of the child welfare surveillance state with a look at battered mothers afraid to seek help because of the entirely justified fear that the family police might take away their children.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Child Welfare. Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy. Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviors. Aging Services and Gerontology. Communities and Neighborhoods. Disability. Immigrants, Refugees, Internally Displaced People. Mental Health. Military Service Members, Veterans and Their Families. Race and Ethnicity.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

Mentoring has benefits like helping the child build stronger relationships, increasing confidence and self-esteem, reducing their risk of addiction, improving behavior and school performance, increasing college enrollment rates and choosing a healthier lifestyle as they grow. Fostering a child is taking on a big responsibility!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This morning, I gave a presentation with the above title At the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Here is the text of that presentation Have you heard? CAPTA creates the modern framework for the current child welfare surveillance state.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

But treating the decline in foster care (the direct result of government actions) as a desirable outcome in itself can contribute to a disregard of actual child welfare outcomes like safety and permanency. Any government can slash the foster care rolls reducing or ending child removals, as many child welfare abolitionists recommend.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This is the text of the second of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare I’m going to spend a lot of time criticizing things people said and did in the past. Call that whatever else you’d like, but please don’t call it hindsight.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

The mother had an addiction to pills that turned into a heroin habit (A condition somewhat similar to that certain other Ford who, instead of being turned in, was treated by media as a hero – but I digress.) Ford when her first child was born. Oddly, for a story discussing racial bias, they chose a white mother.) That happened to Ms.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Americas massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. Thats why weve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove anything. A system that attempts to make policy-by-horror-story makes all children less safe.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This addict also had serious mental health issues. Even Bill Young, who used to run Vermont’s child welfare agency, is appalled. Is it really too much to ask that Vermont take a more humane approach to child welfare than Donald Trump? She was hooked on prescription opioids and an alcoholic. "I And I loved pills.

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