Remove Adoption Remove Domestic Violence Remove Social Worker
article thumbnail

Massachusetts pilots the most promising reform in child welfare. Guess who’s trying to undercut it.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Families facing investigation by the state family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, get a lawyer, a social worker who can come up with alternatives to the cookie-cutter “service plans” issued by DCF, and a parent advocate, usually someone who’s been through the system himself or herself. In Springfield, Mass.

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Why I Want to Be a Social Worker Essay Tips

Social Work Haven

A student contacted me recently wanting tips on how to write on the topic; ‘why I want to be a social worker’ I explained the great benefits of being a social worker. I also embedded myself in this task and wrote with my own experiences and views on why I became a social worker in an essay format.

article thumbnail

“Maybe we're just too damn intrusive": Tracing the take-the-child-and-run mentality that has endangered Massachusetts children for more than a century

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Agents were also convinced of the subnormal intelligence of most non-WASP and especially non-English-speaking clients; indeed, the agents' comments and expectations in this early period were similar to social workers' views of black clients in the mid-twentieth century…. It still happens, of course, but it happens less.

article thumbnail

All You Need To Know About Social Work Articles

Social Work Haven

By reading the latest research, social work articles, books, and other materials related to social work topics, you can stay up-to-date with current trends in the field while also gaining a better understanding of how to apply theories and techniques in practice. Social Work Quotes. Some of these articles are free to access.

article thumbnail

Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies

Social Work Haven

Knowledge of social work intervention strategies is central to the social work role. The role of the social worker becomes increasingly important as communities become more diverse. Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies. How do social workers intervene with clients?

article thumbnail

Seven lessons for practitioners from the review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland

Community Care

It is not possible to provide service stability and strong positive cultures if there is heavy reliance on agency social workers; Northern Ireland has already taken action to curtail their use in its statutory social services.