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All You Need To Know About Social Work Articles

Social Work Haven

“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. Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Working with Clients in Crisis” by David E.

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Social Worker Home Visit Checklist to Take Note Of

Social Work Haven

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. If any signs of these pests are discovered, it may indicate a need for intervention or modifications to improve the client’s living situation. What do social services look for in a home check or visit?

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The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Transitions to 988

Social Work Blog

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency has further exacerbated the need to improve access to crisis intervention services. It will also allow for more cost-effective early intervention strategies to reduce health care spending. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline reported receiving almost 2.4 million calls in 2020 (Bjaworski, 2021).

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center Conference: Attn: Family Police: Children's "well-being" is none of your damn business!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The family police took the noble concept of permanence and confused it with permanence in only one form – the paper permanence of formal adoption by strangers. It opted for the paper permanence of adoption, in which often a child is cut off from Mom and Dad to the point of doing everything possible to eradicate them from that child’s life.

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center conference: The case against CASA

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Court records detail retaliation against attorneys, breaches of confidentiality to benefit the foster parent and an illegal audio recording in open court. It speaks volumes about the Florida CASA program that their email effectively adopts the position that all families are guilty. But that isn’t a study at all.

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NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending January 21, 2025

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

For those on it, it is alleged, this state will rely on a network of informers to plunder confidential records and spy on any mother they deem high risk. To move away from the ineffective intervention of mandatory reporting, policymakers must decriminalize absenteeism. The state may even seek custody before the children are born.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. In 2024, the Kentucky family police agency took away a child whose adoptive parents just needed help to cope with her behavioral problems. He was institutionalized. He ran away, and he died.