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SSW Alumni Spotlight: Barbie Nadal-Cristofaro, MSW

University of Connecticut

I am also a school social worker for Hartford Public Schools and I run a small business, ‘Ends2meet LLC’, which creates awareness on poverty and provides people with basic needs including counseling. I learned that our gut feeling is more important than the credit it gets.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 11, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● “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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Welcome New Social Workers!

Beyond Advocacy

Others may focus on policy and advocacy and find work with research institutes. The research and advocacy help to make the case for the resources needed to provide the services and treatment for direct service providers. These are critical positions for social workers, often on the front lines in making policy decisions.

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Standard operating cruelty: When the family police steal more than Social Security checks

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan School of Law explains, what children need is relational permanence. Often it means cutting off grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, teachers, coaches and mentors. But as Prof.

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Bidding Farewell to Three Special People

Beyond Advocacy

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 Dr. Kamerman was my professor during my doctoral studies at Columbia University School of Social Work. Craigen, Sr.,

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Drivers Act Will Open Doors for Foster Youth

Beyond Advocacy

Jackson, an associate professor and Associate Dean of Educational Programs and Student Services at the University of Alabama, whose research focuses on youth in foster care; Kristen Torres, a legislative assistant for Rep. The panelists are Dr. Sabrena M.

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Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies

Social Work Haven

Examples of intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, community organisation, case management, advocacy, and active listening. Some examples of social work intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, case management, community organisation, advocacy, and active listening.