NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. As she has before, she embraces the Big Lie of American child welfare – that child safety, or the even broader, more amorphous and biased standard of child “wellbeing” - and family preservation are opposites that need to be “balanced.”

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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

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. Because of the one group it does benefit: The Virginia Department of Social Services and county child welfare agencies. In Montana, it’s 40%.

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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

JANUARY 2, 2023

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

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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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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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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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Shelter, Inc

MARCH 14, 2022

Few people know what goes on behind the scenes at a social welfare agency , and it’s easy to assume social workers and other boots on the ground staff show up 9-5, take care of business, and get on with their lives. There have been more suicides, drug addiction, and trauma for children everywhere. But that isn’t reality.

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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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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

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. We received many entries to our 2021 Story Contest.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Documentary 3 : Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes Summary: A career as a social worker will probably expose you to criminal activity and drug addiction, and this documentary on Netflix will open your eyes to the power and complex corruption that fuels cocaine supply and demand.

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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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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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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. Finally, social workers should have a strong ethical code of conduct and adhere to professional standards in order to protect the welfare of their clients.

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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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Community Care

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The panel defines extrafamilial harm as “risks to the welfare of children that arise within the community or peer group, including sexual and criminal exploitation”, along with gang-related harm. What is extrafamilial harm? Domestic abuse was recorded in 47% of incidents.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

By definition, a social worker’s role includes safeguarding children, vulnerable adults and the promoting the welfare of young people. Support with addiction and substance misuse Social workers can provide support to individuals with addiction or substance misuse issues. Social work and medication 7.Support

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

They help people cope with problems such as poverty, unemployment, mental illness, addiction, abuse, and neglect. He is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on social justice and the welfare state, Titmuss helped establish social policy as an academic discipline. Famous influential thinkers in social work 1.

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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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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Policy development, research, and evaluation are also areas where social workers contribute to improving social welfare systems and enhancing understanding of social issues. They collaborate with community organisations to develop programs and initiatives that address social problems and promote community well-being.

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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

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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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. Become a foster parent.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

UConn has allowed me with an invaluable opportunity to receive a high-quality education which will afford me the opportunity to contribute to the advancement of human welfare especially in marginalized people. Addressing the mental health needs of our society has become ever more urgent.

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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. Thats why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case.

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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? In South Dakota, it's when a child's "environment is injurious to his welfare." Poverty is confused with neglect!

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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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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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