Adoption Schools Substance Abuse 
Child Welfare Monitor
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
She spent half of her life in foster care, struggling with substance abuse. She eventually graduated high school and enrolled in college while still incarcerated. Youth with lived experiences in foster care face countless challenges, even when the abuse finally stops – one way or another. She now has an A.A.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The reality is we are moving kids night to night, we’re driving kids across the state for one-night placements to get them to school, we’re putting bandages on situations.”… According to the story, Toscano’s husband was also cited for substance abuse, according to DCF records she shared with the Globe.
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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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 29, 2023
● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files?
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. The USC School of Social Work suggests basic guidelines to show youth acceptance and openness.
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. ? Remember when children could walk home from school by themselves or even play in a playground without parents hovering over them? One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.
Social Work Haven
DECEMBER 4, 2022
In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Addressing substance abuse and addiction issues.
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