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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Among the many reasons not to engage in this pernicious practice: It discourages domestic violence victims from seeking help, and it actually compounds the trauma of removal for the children. Taking children on these grounds is illegal in New York because of a class-action lawsuit, Nicholson v. So now there’s another lawsuit.

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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” And what will these groups do with the $20 million?

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“They’re not your children anymore.” Notes on news coverage of a landmark lawsuit

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Or does ACS prefer a system that allows it to engage in maximum feasible buck-passing? You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1. Maybe that’s too kind.

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11 Steps to Implementing a DSP Peer Mentoring Program

Relias

Agencies are always looking for ways to help new hires understand and get excited about the job, engage their employees, and recognize the experience of their veterans. A DSP peer mentoring program is a great way to increase employee engagement and retention. Creating opportunities for social engagement between employees.

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“[Like being] stopped and frisked for 60 days”: NYC family policing traumatizes kids, confuses poverty with neglect and is racially biased. Who says so? Some of their own caseworkers.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It’s all in a report commissioned by the Administration for Children’s Services itself. Yesterday: Context for the new study : The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? ACS’ response: Don’t release the report!

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Popular Social Work Questions & Answers

Social Work Haven

It is time for that interview you have been waiting for and you must prepare. In social work interviews, there are some common social work interview questions asked. It is important that you start preparing for likely answers to questions you anticipate and not wait until the interview to decide what your answers would be.

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Update: Nursing Home Visitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Work Blog

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. National Long-Term Care Family Webinar: Safe Visitation Through Boosters , cohosted with the Administration for Community Living (February 4, 2022). November 12 Guidance.