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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

In its Study of the Root Causes of Juvenile Justice System Involvement ,” the District of Columbia’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council interviewed youth service providers with first-hand experience working with justice-involved and at-risk youth.

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Call for Papers: Adoption Quarterly Special Issue

Jaeran Kim

I’m guest editing a special issue of Adoption Quarterly with Bibiana Koh. Special Issue of Adoption Quarterly: Ethics and Adoption. . Adoption Quarterly invites abstract submissions for consideration in a special issue critically examining the intersection of ethics and adoption. adoption. .

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Child Maltreatment 2023: A reduction in child maltreatment victims or a retrenchment of child protection?

Child Welfare Monitor

Some states explicitly reported that their screening changes were adopted in order to decrease the number of screened in referrals. Kentucky reported adopting a new SDM screening tool designed to decrease the number of referrals that are “incorrectly accepted for investigation.”

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Poverty Simulations in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Many universities have adopted the Poverty simulation to help their students understand what it is like to live in poverty beyond reading a book or watching a movie, with the ultimate goal of inspiring students to address the problem of poverty through their respective disciplines. Why Poverty Simulations?

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Yolanda Leon, MSW ’05

University of Connecticut

Yolanda has also worked for the Foster Care & Adoptive Services Division where she provided oversight and support to foster parents, conducted training for kinship providers, facilitated support groups, licensed kinship foster homes and relicensed foster homes. This organization encourages, inspires, and empowers women to get active.

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How the journalism of child welfare fails

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. 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.

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Children’s practitioners face duty to report sexual abuse

Community Care

Also, it will be a criminal offence to intentionally block others from reporting CSA, punishable by up to seven years in prison. Government mandatory reporting plan The Home Office said that it would introduce mandatory reporting of CSA through amendments to the current Criminal Justice Bill.