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North Texas Families to Discuss Impact of Potential Medicaid, SNAP Cuts on Children

Children’s Defense Fund

Additionally, they will learn how to contact their elected representatives to express support for these essential programs and explore opportunities to engage in future advocacy efforts. Without swift action, countless children, seniors, and people with disabilities could lose access to the care and support they depend on.

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Mobilizing Social Work’s Vision and Voice through Voting

Social Work Blog

Social workers have a long tradition of social justice and political advocacy – to include working to expand and protect voting rights and promote voter registration. If passed, such bills will have sweeping impacts on communities of color, students, veterans, LGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, and older adults. Getty Images.

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Third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties – research

Community Care

A third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties, research has found. They also interviewed 42 social care professionals, 17 lawyers and four mothers with learning disabilities or learning difficulties who had experience of proceedings.

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Travis County Sheriff’s Office

Center for Child Protection

Their deputies and detectives actively engage with families, investigate reports thoroughly, and work closely with the community to prevent abuse before it happens. Elected Sheriff in 2016, Sheriff Hernandez is one of only seven female sheriffs in Texas history, leading with a focus on justice and victim advocacy.

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Behind the Poor Pay and High Turnover Rates of Direct Support Professionals

Relias

People with disabilities and their families suffer the most serious effects of staff turnover. Constant training of new workers interrupts the continuity of care that allows individuals with disabilities to reach their full potential. The State of Medicaid Programs and the Need for Grassroots Advocacy. However, it is possible.

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NASW Press Wishes You a Happy Social Work Month: Enjoy 20% Off Books and eBooks

Social Work Blog

This user-friendly resource can assist in developing organizational responses to policy issues, conducting policy analysis, and working in advocacy coalitions. In the face of the accelerating climate crisis, social workers must proactively engage with clients and communities and respond to the growing impacts of environmental injustices.

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Safeguarding overhaul needed to better protect disabled children in care, says abuse inquiry

Community Care

Councils should have a bigger role monitoring local residential settings in their areas to better protect disabled children, an inquiry into the abuse of children in three services has concluded. “These recommendations set out a roadmap to more humane treatment of these children.