Social Work Blog

MAY 6, 2022

She participated in the Child Welfare Title IV-E Program, a federal training program which helped pay for her graduate work. Mike Pierce, Executive Director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, with whom NASW partners on student loan debt advocacy, provided testimony at the hearing.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They urged the Supreme Court to “uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act’s constitutionality in all respects.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. The phrase is an invitation to inflict the whims and prejudices of a white middle-class “child welfare” establishment on families that are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite. That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The government will legislate to create a new type of accommodation for children with complex needs in England who are at risk of being deprived of their liberty. Children deprived of their liberty should have access to advocacy, including non-instructed advocacy as needed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

That state’s child welfare “ombudsman” issues reports indicating she’s never seen a problem with wrongful removal in Maine. Indeed, during the giant expansion of the child welfare surveillance state from 2000 to 2019, rates of “substantiated” child abuse barely changed. In 2021, there were 1,753. It’s not hard to figure out why.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed.

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The first is its ambition to strengthen independent advocacy for children in care, as well as other children and parents involved in the social care system. The review said advocacy needed to be comprehensive, and proposed that all children in care should receive it unless they opt out.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When Honolulu Civil Beat reached out to NCCPR for comment on the findings of a study, done by the state’s own Court Improvement Project, of what really happens in child welfare court hearings, I said: “What this report tells us is that Hawaii doesn’t really have a court system for ‘child welfare’ cases at all.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Advocacy takes various forms, including individual, organisational, and systemic levels. Client Advocacy 6. What are the roles of social worker?

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Using advocacy to fight the social determinants of suicide. These factors include LGBTQ marriage equality laws, welfare policies, firearms legislation, and ease of obtaining alcohol. According to the Black Dog Institute , data exists that shows the link between governmental policy and suicide rates.

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

He has been the editor for the journal Child Welfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. She has nearly three decades of experience at the center and in government. Bernal was born in South Texas and raised in San Antonio.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Mary McKay, the outgoing President of the Board of the American Academy of Social Work and Soc i al Welfare (AASWSW), announced the results of the society’s recent elections, which selected Michael A. The society’s mission is to provide a source of valuable information to inform Congress, government agencies, and non-government entities.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Louis, founder and director of the Center for Social Development (CSD), who has spent decades convincing governments in the United States and abroad that investing in children at birth is sound policy. Michael Sherraden, the George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St.

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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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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 10, 2023

By bringing together internationally recognised authors and expertise to focus on an array of issues and concerns this series will reinforce social work as a global profession contributing to the significantly important area of social and welfare policy, education, and practice. tannt@suss.edu.sg tannt@suss.edu.sg

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Beyond Advocacy

APRIL 13, 2022

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. Day, an associate professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work, is establishing herself as an authority in the field of child welfare. We are still waiting.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

There are a wide range of job positions available in various settings, including healthcare, education, mental health, government agencies, private practice, counseling centers, research organisations and more. Advocacy and Social Justice Social work is inherently tied to social justice and advocacy.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

She was a prodigious child welfare scholar whose research focused on early childhood well-being in the United States and countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She was inducted into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) in 2010. from 1979 until her retirement.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

He is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on social justice and the welfare state, Titmuss helped establish social policy as an academic discipline. His work has had a significant influence on government policy in relation to disability rights and access to services. Famous influential thinkers in social work 1. Famous social workers 1.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Louis, founder and director of the Center for Social Development (CSD), who has spent decades convincing governments in the United States and abroad that investing in children at birth is sound policy. Michael Sherraden, the George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Their aim is to enhance the well-being and quality of life of people by providing support, resources, and advocacy. Social workers can work in different settings, such as schools, hospitals, non-profit organisations, government agencies, and private practice.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The state capitol in Austin What the Tribune (and the Dallas Morning News ) can’t face is that after decades of seeing the system that calls itself “child welfare” do enormous harm to children, people across the political spectrum are coming together and finding common ground. But it still has a long way to go.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Penelope, a child welfare worker in Texas, sees the compassion fatigue hitting her colleagues. But child welfare workers are invisible. Aisha, a social worker in the United Kingdom, has made the tough decision to leave her job in the child welfare courts. She feels guilt.

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Brightpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

1] ” This unapologetic advocacy is sparking mainstream conversations throughout the U.S. Grant Foundation and the Doris Duke Foundation are funding this pilot’s research, which is the largest of its kind to address families involved in the child welfare system. By Mike Shaver, president and CEO, Brightpoint and William Schneider Ph.D.,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This is the text of the second of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare I’m going to spend a lot of time criticizing things people said and did in the past. Call that whatever else you’d like, but please don’t call it hindsight. Why did it happen?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Through an upstream preventative lens that narrows the front door and addresses poverty through support and not victimization, I assert fewer children will need any form of formal care as their parents will have the necessary community support and resources to care for their children without child welfare intervention. …

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Beyond Advocacy

OCTOBER 6, 2024

These Fellows, part of a cohort of a dozen government and nonprofit sector dignitaries, are on an 18-day visit to the United States. They are particularly interested in expanding their understanding of human rights and social welfare programs and services in the U.S. Department of State. billion people in India to the 2.8

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 22, 2022

Benefits would be capped at $4,000 per year per individual and would not count against receiving other benefits from the government. There were many heroines and heroes attending Monday evening’s dinner. Davis and Bacon were joined by fellow CCFY member Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA-37).

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 7, 2022

According to Friedman, corporations’ sole responsibility was maximizing shareholder dividends not promoting the general welfare. It is a result of policy choices made by governments. They never were designed to benefit anyone but the wealthy. Rampant inequality is not a natural product of the free market.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. And here’s part two , which explains why “permanency” is to child welfare as “creme" is to food: a fake substitute. ●

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

With a slim majority in the House, Republicans need only to win a handful of seats to flip the House which would stall the Biden-Harris Administration’s agenda and reinvigorate Trump’s influence over our government. Thus, the need for social workers and others to provide support to Congresswoman Lee.

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