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When it comes to the problems plaguing “child welfare” wrongful removal drives everything else – including caseworker turnover. Case in point: Massachusetts

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

They think they’re going to be working with families, helping families to engage in services, to be self-sufficient, to move on to higher education,” Everett said. This fall, DCF shifted her children’s goal from reunification to adoption, she said. In addition to the enormous harm that does to the children, it deluges caseworkers.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? The errors go in all directions, and all of these errors harm children. ? Another criterion: “The degree of harm alleged to the child.” There are numerous scholarly articles regarding the potential harm of removal. She is dangerously wrong.

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Implement Trauma-Informed Care at Your Organization

Relias

In order to take care of your staff, it’s important to adopt a trauma-informed care approach within your own organization. Trauma often leads the person to find a way of coping that works in the short term but causes serious harm in the long run. Offer other training regarding self-care. Offer discounts for health clubs.

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How to Support LGBTQIA+ Youth: Gender-Affirming Care and Resources

KVC

One report revealed that this support and acceptance is associated with greater self-esteem, social support, general health status, less depression, less substance abuse and less suicidal ideation and behaviors among LGBTQIA+ youth. Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.

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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. Discussing the possibility of counseling or therapy can be a supportive step to provide them with an outlet to address their feelings and receive professional assistance if needed.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, weeks ending January 4, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

If you take money from a federal program meant to help poor people become self-sufficient and spend it instead on investigating those families when their poverty is confused with neglect – and on paying middle-class foster parents – what do you call it? The PBS Newshour has an in-depth, finely-nuanced look at ASFA and the harm it has done.

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Garrett Therolf and the Magic Algorithm!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The program, first adopted in Nassau County on Long Island in New York, redacts all race and race-related factors from the dossiers used by social workers and supervisors in determining child welfare cases. That makes the computer-generated risk score more like a self-fulfilling prophecy than an actual prediction.