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He researches technology and childwelfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. She also works with agencies to train staff in Motivational Interviewing. Whether policies are conservative or liberal, the goal is to use AI responsibly while ensuring confidentiality and ethics.
Police officers and childwelfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. This clause is included in a law commonly known as “Elisa’s Law,” after Elisa Izquierdo, a child known-to-the-system who died in 1995. Here’s how ProPublica describes one encounter: It was 5:30 a.m.
Now The Imprint reports on how the same agency used the same tactics to undermine legislation to replace anonymous child abuse reporting with confidential reporting. Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ●
This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change ChildWelfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. That’s not because they want to hurt children, of course.
ChildWelfare 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. Confidentiality: Maintaining strict confidentiality is essential. They keep their promises and follow through on commitments.
For those on it, it is alleged, this state will rely on a network of informers to plunder confidential records and spy on any mother they deem high risk. Her confidential medical records were obtained and read by strangers without her knowledge. in which the [childwelfare agency] citing concerns about A.V.s knowledge.
Then, you should gather information by conducting interviews, reading books or journal articles, and talking to experts in the field. Poverty Access to health care and mental health services Inequality and discrimination Homelessness, immigration policy and refugee rights, substance abuse/addiction Childwelfare and family dynamics.
This side of the childwelfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.
OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than childwelfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. In this video , one of Britains foremost childwelfare scholars, Prof. Its not just the United States.
Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. We should remove criminalization of women who are pregnant and taking drugs," Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said in an interview. That needs to stop."
The family policing establishment (a more accurate term than childwelfare establishment) has not yet taken me up on that, and Im not about to unilaterally disarm. Not cant tell you the confidentiality laws family police agencies hide behind generally are there because the agencies want them there so they can hide their failings.
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 childwelfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.
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