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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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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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NASW Member Voices: The Democracy Restoration Act is a Civil and Voting Rights Imperative

Social Work Blog

The practice of stripping convicted felons of the right to vote goes back to the beginnings of our nation when the federal government and many states adopted felon disenfranchisement laws based on the idea that voting was a privilege for those who demonstrated “good moral character.”

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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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An update on the Mental Health Bill’s passage through Parliament

Community Care

Baroness Berridge (Conservative) argued there is the other danger that – when there is no co-occurring mental health condition – you end up with people coming through the criminal justice system. Consequently, she argued, children may not benefit from the reforms in the bill that depend on competency.

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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.