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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 19, 2022
I have a blog post on both cases which, together, reveal that “child welfare” is a field so arrogant it can assert the right to violate everything from the Fourth Amendment to the Ninth Commandment. ? Although it’s not directly about child welfare, NPR has an important story about recovery from substance use disorder.
Michigan Social Work
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
He has been the editor for the journal Child Welfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. His efforts led to the adoption of protection of farm workers from excessive heat and overtime pay. Senate in 2013.
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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. Social work is a wide-ranging profession that deals with a variety of issues.
Child Welfare Monitor
JANUARY 27, 2025
As in the past several years, ACF’s language suggested that child abuse and neglect are decreasing. The new report, Child Maltreatment 2023 (CM2023), provides data for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2023, which ended on September 30, 2024. ” State data indicates that child welfare agencies screened in 2.1
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!
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.
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. Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted.
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