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. This includes defending individuals’ rights and addressing issues such as poverty, mental health, domestic violence, disability rights and substance abuse.

Social Worker 95

Social Worker Treatment Planning Interventional Justice and Corrections 95

Relias

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Perhaps even more concerning for the future, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimated that over 5% of the total AI/AN population in 2019 struggled with opioid misuse. Extreme hardship created susceptibility to addiction. began to crack down on opioid use.

Addiction 59

Addiction Healthcare Crisis Intervention Mental Health 59

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! Second, all substance use isn’t opioids.

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Domestic Violence Child Welfare Welfare 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story especially when a good reporter adds a little context. When family police agencies try to treat substance addiction as a moral failing instead of as a disease, some of us have said: Well, you wouldnt treat cancer as a moral failing, would you?

Child Welfare 111

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Domestic Violence 111

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.

Domestic Violence 264

Domestic Violence Substance Abuse Foster Care Child Welfare 264

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.) Here are the sentences: “It’s an extremely biased way of alerting the government to the risk of child maltreatment.

Child Welfare 114

Child Welfare Welfare Domestic Violence Addiction 114