NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

According to the story, Toscano’s husband was also cited for substance abuse, according to DCF records she shared with the Globe. This fall, DCF shifted her children’s goal from reunification to adoption, she said. Ah, but DCF would surely remind us, that wasn’t the only reason.

Child Welfare 66

Child Welfare Welfare Domestic Violence Foster Care 66

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. So birth parents become, at best, nonentities, at worst those awful people their foster or adoptive parent friends told them about. That’s not correct.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Substance Abuse 98

KVC

JUNE 16, 2022

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. Counseling can be a tremendous tool for an LGBTQIA+ young person. Self-harming or harming others.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Self-harm Substance Abuse Adoption 52

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.

Code of Ethics 52

Code of Ethics Substance Abuse Justice and Corrections Social Worker 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.

Domestic Violence 40

Domestic Violence Child Welfare Behavior Analysis Substance Abuse 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This post is adapted from a virtual presentation I gave last month to the Racial Justice Task Force of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Child and Family Law Division. First, in more than two-thirds of all Massachusetts cases, no substance abuse of any kind is even alleged.

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Domestic Violence Child Welfare Welfare 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.

Child Welfare 76

Child Welfare Domestic Violence Adoption Behavior Analysis 76