Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 29, 2022

One of most rewarding aspects of the work we do at CRISP is encountering so many gifted social workers in all parts of the country who are eager to become change agents and difference makers by working in the policy and political arenas. Many are young and in the beginning stages of their budding social work careers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

? Last week, I was asked to list the most important contributions to the field of family advocacy and family defense made by Prof. Joy San Bonaventura also is wise enough to know that would be only a first step: “My concern is that a judge would rubber-stamp whatever a CPS social worker says,” she said. “At Martin Guggenheim.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

In case you missed it, here are some of the features in the latest issue of Social Work Advocates. Top stories include: Human Rights Advocacy: Wave of LGBTQIA+ Bills Underscores Vital Role for Social Workers. Social workers are helping to address the impact that the pandemic has had on children’s mental health.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Below is NASW’s statement of interest that was submitted: NASW STATEMENT OF INTEREST: The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), founded in 1955, is the largest association of professional social workers in the United States with 110,000 members in 55 chapters. The court granted the TRO on March 2. 2018-2020). [2]

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

This bill would reauthorize Title IV-B of the Social Security Act to strengthen child welfare services and expand the availability of prevention services. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, which held a hearing on the legislation on July 24, following a year-long review of child welfare programs.

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Beyond Advocacy

APRIL 13, 2022

My last visit to the Hill was CRISP’s Social Work Day on the Hill reception in the Rayburn Building in March 2020. We cancelled Student Advocacy Day scheduled for the next day as the House and Senate would go into hiatus until the Covid-19 pandemic abated. I was back on Capitol Hill Tuesday, April 5, for the first time in two years.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 13, 2022

NASW members can access the Social Work journal, published by NASW Press, online as a member benefit. The contents for the July 2022 issue include: Editorial: Social Work’s Role in Rebuilding the Child Welfare Workforce. The Impact of Psychological Capital on Well-Being of Social Workers: A Mixed-Methods Investigation.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

Social Work Speaks is a reference tool that represents the collective thinking of thousands of social workers across all fields of practice. This user-friendly resource can assist in developing organizational responses to policy issues, conducting policy analysis, and working in advocacy coalitions. Currently, about 5.4

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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. Social Work in Mental Health Settings” by Kevin J.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

The Compton Foundation Centennial Professor of Social Work for the Prevention of Children and Youth Problems, she served on the faculty of the Columbia University School of Social Work —where she received her Ph.D.—from He served as President of the Chicago Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) from 1969 to 1971.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Early Inspirations: High School and Beyond From the earliest days of high school, I found myself drawn to social issues and the incredible work done by social workers in our communities. It was during this time that I began to understand the profound influence of the social work profession.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

April Ferguson LCSW-C Senior Practice Associate Children and Adolescents April 2024 The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) acknowledges April as Child Abuse Prevention Month.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We are trying through our work at CRISP to influence as many social workers as possible to become more engaged in the political arena where our skills, knowledge, and values are in short supply. Social workers have been making transformational contributions to the betterment of society from its inception. We need more.

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Beyond Advocacy

OCTOBER 6, 2024

She is responsible for promoting and protecting human rights, including advocacy, investigations, and monitoring visits to places deprived of liberty. Much of our discussion with the Fellows focused on child welfare, her area of expertise. Social workers in the United States have much to offer the world.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 9, 2024

Social workers work in a variety of fields, including mental health, aging, child welfare, and social services. Many of these social workers develop a wealth of expertise in this area and are ready to be resources to the media and other organizations. Few additional cases resulted

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We are trying through our work at CRISP to influence as many social workers as possible to become more engaged in the political arena where our skills, knowledge, and values are in short supply. Social workers have been making transformational contributions to the betterment of society from its inception. We need more.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Dorothy Roberts’ definitive dissection of racism in family policing: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Some might say the novel depicts a dystopian future child welfare surveillance state. We start with three important books: ● First, Prof.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

But today’s post focuses on one particularly jarring vignette–the story of a mother, her seven children, and a van–and what it means about how child welfare policy is made and discussed today. David Reed, the Deputy Director of Child Welfare Services in Indiana, introduced the story of this family in his testimony.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. In this video , one of Britains foremost child welfare scholars, Prof. Its not just the United States.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Remember all those scare stories about how, because COVID-19 prevented overwhelmingly white disproportionately middle-class “mandated reporters” from constantly having their “eyes” on children who are neither, their parents would unleash upon their own children a “pandemic of child abuse” ? million Black children.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

After closely following the confirmation hearings, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) has reached a resolute conclusion: Robert F. Social workers rely on science-driven policies to protect the well-being of our clients and communities. Kennedy Jr.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

This is a follow-up to her post – A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19. Many social workers resonated with the stories I shared and many people who work with social workers also expressed their gratitude for the steady dedication of social workers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy. Why had this happened?

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

a committee consisting of former Congressman Edolphus “Ed” Towns, Dr. Sheryl Brissett-Chapman, Dr. Jean Bailey, Janie Jeffers and me are organizing a salute and fundraiser for Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA-12) to give social workers and others an opportunity to show their support for a social justice champion.

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