NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Photo by Alan Levine When children are taken from their parents forever and those children are adopted by strangers, the parents often want to leave their children something to remember them by, perhaps a cherished keepsake or a family photo from happier times. What’s the difference between adoption and those other options?

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

Christina has been a licensed foster parent in the state of Washington for six years and has adopted one child from the foster care system. by Christina Faucett I am honored to publish this essay from Christina Faucett. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 13, 2023

If enacted, the bill would expand state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. The bill was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Finance Committee in the Senate.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Examples of intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, community organisation, case management, advocacy, and active listening. Some examples of social work intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, case management, community organisation, advocacy, and active listening.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As I embark on this transformative journey, I am committed to adopting a strength-based approach—one that recognises and nurtures the inherent potential within each individual. Strength-Based Approach One of the key aspects of being a social worker is adopting a strength-based approach.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. Counselling clients to make informed decisions that affect their lives.

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Irish Social Worker

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Do we strive to adopt that cornerstone of trauma-informed care, of meeting the person where they are at, in the midst of their reality, with their lived-expertise guiding the way. In Ireland, we have taken a narrow approach to adoption of the Directive. Today we live through it in terms of St John Ambulance. So what’s my point here?

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