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The Kids Are Feeling It too

Gary Direnfeld

If they appear anxious at home or at school over current events and the near future, sure explain the disruption caused by the current American administration and most importantly, also put them to ease that war between our two countries is simply not foreseeable. These are topsy turvy times.

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Supporting the Education Assistant is in Everyone’s Interest

Gary Direnfeld

Nowadays, the EA is often an agent of control on behalf of the administration to keep the assisted student and other disruptive students from disturbing the other non-identified students. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. I am available in person and by video conferencing.

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Harbour Partnership

Shelter, Inc

Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, under the Basic Center Program (BCP). About The Harbour The Harbour is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping young people facing homelessness, providing shelter, counseling, and supportive services to at-risk youth in suburban Chicago.

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Violence in Schools

Gary Direnfeld

Not the teachers or administrators. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. Then, to address these questions further and as I have mentioned from time to time, we need to consult those who are working with the students who present the greatest challenges. There is a crisis in education.

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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

CO4Kids

If you are a teacher or administrator at the childs school or childcare, you can contact the childs emergency contacts provided by the family during enrollment. To achieve this, counties will work with consulates and/or social service agencies to help find deported parent(s) and determine if the family can be reunited in their home country.

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“[It] feels like a jail cell has dropped around my family”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.) And in New York, the New York City family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, still considers itself free to harass domestic violence survivors and their children by putting them under constant surveillance. So now there’s another lawsuit.

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SSW Alumni Spotlight: Barbie Nadal-Cristofaro, MSW

University of Connecticut

Barbie Nadal-Cristofaro MSW, 092 (pending), 2016 – Administration and Case Work. I am also a school social worker for Hartford Public Schools and I run a small business, ‘Ends2meet LLC’, which creates awareness on poverty and provides people with basic needs including counseling.