Social Work Haven

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

If you are a social worker who works with children, you may have come across teenagers who vape. You may also find this article useful: A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Substance Abuse Teenagers are vaping substances like nicotine and marijuana at alarming rates.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The stories blithely attribute West Virginia’s high rate of removal to the fact that “More than half entered the system because of a parent’s substance abuse.” More than half entered the system because a worker checked the “substance abuse” box on a form; that is not necessarily the same thing. That’s not correct.

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Relias

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) predicts that, by 2025, the U.S. 48,540 social workers. According to the National Council for Mental Welbeing , demand for behavioral health services will increase by the following percentages by 2030: Addiction counselors: 21-30%.

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Relias

JUNE 19, 2023

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) predicts that, by 2025, the U.S. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) predicts that, by 2025, the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Agents were also convinced of the subnormal intelligence of most non-WASP and especially non-English-speaking clients; indeed, the agents' comments and expectations in this early period were similar to social workers' views of black clients in the mid-twentieth century…. Second, all substance use isn’t opioids. the White House.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

A social worker who doesnt want to report kids in dirty clothes to CPS. More than 600 social workers, nonprofit executives and staff, legal experts and advocates for parents rights have joined the hours-long convenings that began in March. Heres the surprise: The agencies response boiled down to well yes, youre right.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

A DCYF spokesperson told the Seattle Times that the department was using services to avoid removing children or to reunite families sooner, citing efforts to connect parents to substance use or mental health treatment programs, bring a social worker into the home to problem solve, or offer practical items, like diapers, car seats and beds.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The Columbus Dispatch reports that Children sent to a state-licensed facility for mental health care are subjected to chokeholds and slaps, being pinned to the ground and verbally abused, and are regularly leaving the campus, according to an investigation conducted by Disability Rights Ohio.

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